The bar tends to pull in a mostly male crowd, including plenty of students from the University of Tennessee, and it's well-known for karaoke (there's a huge song catalog), drag performances, hosting the annual "Night of 1000 Dollys" Dolly Parton impersonation show, and great drink specials. The Edge: One of the longest-running and largest gay clubs, The Edge is well outside the city. Like most places, the number of specifically LGBTQ+ nightspots has dropped a bit, but a few notable spots still draw sizable crowds.
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Like a number of other gay bars from the mid-twentieth century, the White Horse had no windows to the street until just a few years ago, dating as it does to a time when homosexuality was a criminal offense.
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Long before gay marriage, or even living openly, was a possibility, the White Horse served the East Bay’s LGBT community. Long-running Capitol Hill LGBTQ+ bar R Place will be vacating its iconic teal, multilevel home at 619 E.
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The Double Header in Seattle, opened in 1934, is a close second. A gay bar is a drinking establishment that caters to an exclusively or predominantly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) clientele the term gay. And in fact the entire building with the bar in it was moved about a block, into Oakland, in 1936 when a law was enacted prohibiting the sale of alcohol within a mile of the campus.Īs the San Francisco Chronicle points out, there’s another gay bar, Cafe Lafitte in New Orleans, which may be tied in official age with the White Horse, having also “opened” coincidentally in 1933, but it has changed locations once since then.
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Its proximity to the Berkeley campus, but just over the border in Oakland where liquor licenses were historically easier to get, was an obvious factor in attracting its early clientele. The current, open front patio is only a few years old.