Gay Bars

Bars and nightclubs aren’t the only queer institutions facing hard times post-COVID.

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A recent mass shooting in Slovakia is only the latest attack on gay bars and nightclubs.

The local LGBTQ group called the attack “the result of a long and systematic campaign against them by state officials, churches, and extremist groups.”

Valencia Prime was beloved by Philadelphia’s LGBTQ community.

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.

“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.

The mass shooting canceled the city’s official Pride festivities but led to thousands spontaneously marching & chanting, “We’re here. We’re queer. We won’t disappear.”

“In most parts of the country, gay bars are the only public LGBTQ+ place.”

“I think it’s wrong that we have a bunch of queers in our society,” he told officers before pleading guilty to a hate crime.

The man was in the bar before the attack, but police aren’t saying what his motives were.

The fire started shortly before an event featuring queer and trans performers of color.

Officially, Portland no longer has a lesbian bar, but a queer-owned women’s sports bar is opening this spring.

Screaming “white power” and “death to the faggots,” the men went on a rampage.

The James Bond star was refreshingly candid about his sexuality.

The bar fired the security employee and team responsible, but this is just the latest instance of what locals claim is an anti-Black culture fostered there. Now the community is boycotting.

LGBTQ bars were already struggling, but COVID-19 has made queer nightlife even harder to continue.

A Golden Arches franchise will help a gay night club qualify to reopen by serving their meals with the bar’s drinks.

The spot centers LGBTQ spaces affected by the pandemic, explaining “no one knows when we’ll be free to come back, to truly be ourselves.”

“You don’t know who I am, and f*ck off.”