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Wilton Manors, Florida welcomes CHOCOLATE CITY its first (and long overdue) Black-Owned Gay Bar
Even though Wilton Manors, a small city in Florida that is a neighbor of Fort Lauderdale, has a significant queer population, it also has a mixed reputation regarding its attitude to diversity. Unlike Miami Beach down the road, whose last census showed that a population has some 53% foreign-born residents, and a significant portion of…
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Jonathan Kemp raves about Jeremy Atherton Lin’s ‘pitch-perfect” GAY BAR
“Does gay still have a place?” asks the back cover blurb, and whilst Atherton-Lin’s riveting and joyous book may not provide anything approaching a definitive answer, it’ll make you want to find a place, even make you nostalgic for a place whether real or imagined. Appearing at the tail-end of a year-long lockdown,…
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AUNT CHARLIES the last drag bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin has been saved
Thanks to a tenacious devoted group of fundraisers, AUNT CHARLIES the last drag bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin has been saved and lives to fight another day. This historical landmark, and a symbol of the city’s vital queer and trans culture closed its doors in March due to COVID-19 and because its owner William…
