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Contents:
- THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
- THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
- THE AMERIN GAY BAR IS DOWN, BUT DON’T COUNT IT OUT JT YET
- WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
- LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
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THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
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THE AMERIN GAY BAR IS DOWN, BUT DON’T COUNT IT OUT JT YET
The olst gay bar North Carola (found 1976) draws every tegory and mographic. The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur. —Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli.
WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
—Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars.
It’s gay Cheers. It feels like everythg a gay bar should be. When the bar fally reopened Sprg 2022, an entire borough’s worth of gays celebrated by floodg the new back pat all summer and Gger’s has been crowd wh queers ever sce.
—Diana HubbellBoston: Club CafeHow is Boston’s stalwart gay bar/rtrant/performance space inic?
LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria. It gave the boys a place to gather the ‘80s, the first outpost that helped tablish the South End as the Boston gayborhood.
It brought the gay and straight muni together the ‘90s wh clever baret programmg.