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Club Q will reopen in the fall with enhanced security & memorial for shooting victims
“We are working very hard to bring our home back. We look forward to being able to gather as one community again,” the club’s owners wrote.
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3 men drugged & robbed of thousands after leaving gay bar
Robbers used facial recognition on the victims’ phones to access their accounts.
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NYC’s oldest LGBTQ+ bar Julius’ was just declared a landmark
The Greenwich Village watering hole is the city’s oldest LGBTQ+ bar.
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Quieter queer spaces are worth protecting too
Bars and nightclubs aren’t the only queer institutions facing hard times post-COVID.
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LGBTQ bars in Milwaukee are banning Jeffrey Dahmer costumes for Halloween
eBay has also banned the sale of Dahmer costumes.
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Bars have traditionally been queer people’s safest spaces & some of our most dangerous
A recent mass shooting in Slovakia is only the latest attack on gay bars and nightclubs.
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Two dead, one injured in gay bar shooting by extremist
The local LGBTQ group called the attack “the result of a long and systematic campaign against them by state officials, churches, and extremist groups.”
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Drag queen dies after collapsing in the middle of a performance
Valencia Prime was beloved by Philadelphia’s LGBTQ community.
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Chicago police & families search for answers after hit-and-run kills 3 outside Black gay bar
As a group of young men tried to stop a fight outside of a local gay bar, a car suddenly plowed into them, killed three and injured a fourth.
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Science says bachelorette parties are destroying LGBTQ safe spaces
“Just after several drinks, many [straight women] may grab the butt of a cute gay man or take selfies in front of the leather daddies as if they were exhibits in some queer zoo,” the researchers wrote.