Strictly gay bar in boston

Photo: Annie Schugart. Spaces dedicated bar the community are sparse, though. Club and bar nights exist, but there are no gay bars to be heard of since the closing of Paradise in In neighboring Boston, spaces have been disappearing too: Machine in Fenway gay to make way for a condo development, and Bella Luna and the Milky Way in Jamaica Plain closed during the Covid pandemic.

One of the spaces that remain in Cambridge is Campus at ManRay, a club night that happens every Thursday. The night itself is informal compared with some others at ManRay that cater to specific, alternative subcultures and come with dress codes. For a boston in a metro area with the eighth-largest population of LGBTQ-identifying people in the United States, it is a surprise to learn that what happens at ManRay on Thursdays is one of only a few opportunities for the strictly to gather.

The Cambridge gay bar Paradise closed in Photo: Luciano Cesta. ManRay owners and managers intend it as a safe space for a variety of communities. The new ManRay regularly hosts goth, industrial and new wave nights. Plus, the Internet changed how people meet. The spaces have been closing all over the country. Photo: Marc Levy.

A working group was formed for community input. Joselow said she would like to see more bars and other activities for the community, as well as more queer-owned businesses. The businesses can list affiliations with multiple groups. Similarly, Somerville publishes a Diversity Catalog. Like Joselow, Lewis believes Somerville and Cambridge should encourage more diversity among business owners.

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