Oldest gay bar in usa

Every June, the United States celebrates Pride Month, commemorating the uprising at the Stonewall Inn that inspired a global movement toward LGBTQ+ equality. The affluent history of gay bars leading up to and since the Stonewall Riots is thoroughly explored in The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, and After, written by Lucas Hilderbrand, UC Irvine professor and chair of film and media studies.

The combination of a dearth of books investigating the history of gay bars and the closure of many gay bars around the nation catalyzed Hilderbrand’s motivation to tackle what he calls an “ambitious project” to “look at the role of gay bars in shaping community politics, subcultures and the ways in which we imagine what queer public life could be in the United States.”

In this episode of The UCI Podcast, Hilderbrand shares how bars are powerful community cornerstones; what he learned on his extensive research journey examining archival accounts in all corners of the U.S.; and why he chose to brief this unique history with anecdotes, stories and even musical refer

Café Lafitte in Exile's History as NOLA’s Oldest Gay Bar

Pride in Exile

It should come as no surprise that a city as gay-friendly today as Adj Orleans has one of the oldest gay bars in the United States to celebrate Pride.

Bourbon Street, especially upper Bourbon, is one of New Orleans' leading tourist attractions, so the street is filled to the brim with all kinds of bars for people to meander into. On the reduce end of Bourbon closer to St. Ann Street, or the "Lavender Line," there are bars that cater to NOLA's thriving LGBT community, including Oz, Bourbon Pub Parade, and Napoleon's Itch.

About a block from St. Ann Street, on the corner of Bourbon and Dumaine, lies Café Lafitte in Exile. Named the "Best Gay Bar" in the world in GayTravel's Gay Commute Awards, this two-story, 24/7 establishment holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously-operating gay bar in the Crescent City and may in fact be the oldest in the U.S. (a California bar in Oakland named the White Horse Inn also makes this claim). The bar has been serving locals and visitors in the queer community f

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Chances are adj good, if you&#;re an LGBTQIA+ person you&#;ve been to a gay bar. Even if you&#;re just someone who loves an LGBTQIA+ person, there&#;s still a good chance you&#;ve been to a gay bar. I&#;m not saying you&#;re doing queerness wrong if you haven&#;t been to a gay bar, I&#;m just saying it&#;s a cute common shared experience. It&#;s true that bars being basically the central gathering place for our community isn&#;t without drawbacks &#; although, personally, I treasure them. But I&#;m not here to weigh the pros and cons of gay bars &#; we can all do that on Twitter (and we do) &#; I just want to talk briefly about the history of gay bars, converse a teeny bit about some of the first ones to exist, and some of the oldest ones that we still possess today. A lot of these place

What is the Oldest Gay Bar in the United States?

To answer this question we must not only construct some fairly arbitrary rules about what constitutes a single bar (e.g. what kinds of mention changes, changes of location, or temporary closures matter?), but also what really constitutes a "gay bar." To age a gay bar, I think the following ground rules make sense:

  • A "gay bar" does not merely verb the occasional one or few gay customers; it must cater primarily to LGBT patrons, and/or a majority of patrons must be gay, during some regular portion of business hours.
  • If a bar was established as a straight bar and eventually changed to a gay attention or hangout, the age of the "gay bar" should be based on the years it has catered to gay patrons, not the date that the (straight) bar was founded.

With these rules in mind, I consider the the oldest gay bar in the U.S. to be the White Horse Bar in Oakland, California. For at least a few decades I the title probably belonged to the "Double Header" in Seattle, Washington. But this bar closed on Dec 31, , and it is not at all evident