Rural life n be plited for LGBTQ people. The story of Heartbreakers, North Dakota's lone gay bar, is proof.
Contents:
- THE BOOM AND BT OF NORTH DAKOTA’S ONLY GAY BAR
- GAYT PLAC IN NORTH DAKOTA FOR 2020
- GAY NORTH DAKOTA TRAVEL GUI
- MOVG TO GAY NORTH DAKOTA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
THE BOOM AND BT OF NORTH DAKOTA’S ONLY GAY BAR
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Jared Holbrook, the owner of Heartbreakers, announced that would be rebrandg as a gay club followg the shutdown. Heartbreakers, however, illtrat the challeng of nng a gay bar a state where there are few rourc for LGBTQ people, let alone gay clubs.
If Williston rints want to go to a gay or lbian club elsewhere, they have to travel all the way to Billgs, Montana, five hours away. Heartbreakers, a gay club Williston, North Dakota. To Shults, openg a gay bar Williston is personal.
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When people thk of Williston, they don’t necsarily thk of gay pri, but we’ve had a lot of bs offer to donate and a lot of people tellg they thk what we do is great. “I need you to wash this bee there’s a homosexual over there and we don’t want to get AIDS, ” he remembers her sayg.
The state’s last gay bar, I-Beam, which was loted Fargo, closed down 2008, and North Dakota’s LGBTQ muny has stggled to replace . “The joke is that the gay bar is wherever all the gay people show up.
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“Before, I had to drive 109 to be where other gay people where, ” he said. The sudn end of the gay scene at Heartbreakers.
Dependg on whom you ask, might not be a gay bar at all. The theory went that Holbrook claimed Heartbreakers would open as a gay club as a gamb to get his erotic dancer license back.
” One follower mented, “I heard this was a gay bar now, ” to which Heartbreakers rpond, “Heard wrong, 's a bar wh entertament for everyone.
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Dick said he believ the announcement that Heartbreakers would reopen as a gay bar was tend to “screw over the town a ltle b. He add, however, that gog gay would be a good bs cisn.
Holbrook perhaps unrtimated that a gay bar would be not only champned by his own staff but also supported by a town that simply need somethg different, pecially durg an enomic downturn.
Openg a gay bar giv the town somethg no other cy North Dakota has — puts Williston back on the map.