Barbers – GAY MEN SHOP

Contents:

• WHEN THE PS WEREN’T AROUND, GAY BARS LIKE DOWNTOWN’S COURT JTER OFFERED SAFE SPACE A HOSTILE CY
• DENVER GAY MAP
• GAY-FRIENDLY BARBERS IN RSIA , OH

WHEN THE PS WEREN’T AROUND, GAY BARS LIKE DOWNTOWN’S COURT JTER OFFERED SAFE SPACE A HOSTILE CY

Gayborhood. But, there’s a park the heart of the cy, and not far om Denver’s inic gayborhood Capol Hill, that has more than pop-up volleyball urts and hammocks. It don’t intify self as an explicly gay bar, but ’s a popular hangout for olr gay men occupyg the former Barker Lounge space.

Its owners have claimed ’s the cy’s olst gay bar, havg opened the 1950s and gone openly gay the 1970s, acrdg to Wtword, wh s stantly regnizable, rabow-pated door. Although ’s not an overtly bear bar — owners scribe as Denver’s queer, unrground fetish bar — ’s a favore of the beard, equently mcle-bound class of gay men who scrib themselv as such (particularly the absence of the late Denver Wrangler). Tra also helps fill a blank spot that particular area’s Denver’s gay scene, wh a perch along Santa Fe Drive and diverse programmg that rang om drag shows and DJ nights to leather nights and beer bts.

The name stretch back to the 1970s when the slim brick buildg hosted a gay club lled Triangle, and was a tryout spot for var, unsuccsful bars and craft rtrants after the origal Triangle closed the early 2000s. Like Lucid, #Vybe featur a b more diversy than many gay bars, wh drag queens of lor and top tourg queens like Adore Delano swgg through regularly, addn to stand-up edy, game nights, Denver Brons parti (the cheerlears even stopped for a show recently) and lots more.

DENVER GAY MAP

But wh the barbershop beg such a black male space, there is a lot of homophobia and toxic masculy those rooms. We looked at sort of like the next step the gay Boxers/shirtls baristas market.

And offerg nu cuts will certaly get gay/bi men of lor the door. It’s the kd of place where olr men wh heavy Italian accents talk about soccer next to young gay men vered tattoos. “I’d say ’s about 60 percent gay, 20 percent hipster-straight, 15 percent middle-aged straight men, and 5 percent transgenr or genr fluid, ” said Mch Koonce, who has worked at the barbershop for three years and is known for his beard, which go down to his cht.

GAY-FRIENDLY BARBERS IN RSIA , OH

Tl clu the ual Rollg Stone, Natnal Geographic, and Esquire, but also gay magaz like Out and Advote alongsi a llectn of children’s books featurg Pokemon and Cur Gee.

“What gay man n go to any other barbershop and talk about sports? I almost want to say kda tak you out of the norm — out of the gay liftyle. Changg muny On nearby shelv, there are beard products that are labeled BEARd balm, a nod to gay men who often sport a beard.