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• THE BEST CONNECTICUT GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CONNECTICUT
• A LOOK AT THE CULTURE OF GAY BARS AND LGBTQ NIGHTLIFE CT
• GAYT PLAC IN CONNECTICUT FOR 2020
• THE BEST HARTFORD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS HARTFORD
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• CT NATIVE BREAKS BARRIER AS FIRST OPENLY-GAY NFL ACH

THE BEST CONNECTICUT GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CONNECTICUT

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A LOOK AT THE CULTURE OF GAY BARS AND LGBTQ NIGHTLIFE CT

Yet a one square-e radi of one cy Florida, you’ll fd about jt as many gay bars as you will the entire state of Connecticut. David Kleman has owned Partners, a gay bar New Haven, for about 25 years.

Kleman said he remembers a time when gay bars were a refuge for a margalized muny that was often physilly and verbally asslted. “Years ago, if you were gay you jt wouldn’t walk to some place, so you would go to a gay bar or a leather party or a drag show, ” Kleman said.

In the '80s, Kleman said, Partners clientele was almost entirely gay.

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“In Connecticut gay people are fortable gog everywhere. Gay people are more fortable walkg to any club or any bar. T Abad, a 29-year-old gay man om New London County, said gay bars Connecticut are somewhat of a dyg breed bee mastream culture has bee more acceptg of the muny.

“There’s a qutn of do we really need the ‘gay bars’ anymore, ” Abad said. We don’t need the gay bars as much bee we’re not physilly threatened the way we ed to be — though still happens. We are equal and that’s what gay bars have always been about.

Kleman said change for the worse is “on a lot of gay people’s mds” followg Supreme Court Jtice Clarence Thomas’ ncurrg opn a lg that overturned the abortn and privacy protectns of the Roe v. That, Abad said, is part of why gay bars still hold an important place an crementally acceptg society.

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I was always able to fd solace and muny at lol ffee shops downtown Mystic or The Brass Rail (a now-closed gay bar) New London. While Kleman says “old-time gay bars” like Partners are still around, LGBTQ cln has bee part of the bar and rtrant scene. In Norwalk, Troupe 429 offers near daily drag shows at the gay-owned tablishment.

“I’ve always said Mystic need two thgs — a tattoo shop and drag or a gay bar. Now ’s like more plac are wakg up where they don’t necsarily need a gay bar, but the drag shows are poppg up. “People get boxed to this ia of what gay is and what trans is.

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Below, check out five gay bars and drag clubs Connecticut.

For the past five years, Casey Fzpatrick and Nicholas Ruiz have owned and operated Troupe429, a gay-owned bar Norwalk that puts on drag shows almost daily. Anyone lookg to celebrate Pri beyond June Norwalk need only step to Troupe429, where Fzpatrick promis "lots of drag shows, rabows and gay good tim. One of the olst gay bars the state, 168 York Street Cafe is ntled to brownstone buildg near the Yale mp.

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