West virginia gay bars

The Who Needs Gay Bars Street Trip has begun, in West and East Virginia. Also, I may have received free sunglasses at DC Pride:

The first lock on this leg of the tour was Vice Versa in West Virginia, the largest of the remaining five gay bars in the state. Co-owner Montaz Hazleton met his husband in the bar, and received it as an anniversary submit. Why buy a gay bar that was going out of business?

&#;I didn&#;t want to spot something that had been here for so long disappear. It helped me become the person I am today, and I wanted to do that for others. When you go to bars, you may think of sex and drinking, but I think of socialization, basically learning. This is where we were educated, and we train the kids regularly: we have speeches every week to the kids about being safe, organism kind to others of all ethnicities, sizes, and shapes. We are here to support our young people as well as our old people, and instill that in these kids&#; we teach them how to tip, how to be respectful, how to apply condoms and lube and dental dams, about PReP, about t

The Shamrock

In , Helen Compton opened the Shamrock, considered the first establishment to cater to the LGBT community in West Virginia. The previous year, Compton saw four men denied access to a club and was told that they were not allow in because they were “queer.” Realizing that the gay community had no place to gather, Compton decided to open the Shamrock. During the afternoon, it operated as a diner that catered to the local community of workers and businessmen, largely the straight community. Around at night, she would begin encouraging the dinner patrons to finish up and the establishment would then switch over to a gay club. The fact that the nighttime club catered to the gay community was largely a secret from the regular patrons.

Unlike places love New York and California where the gay people was visible earlier, homosexuality was largely not approved in West Virginia communities (particularly rural ones). In an interview, Compton remembered that as a infant she saw two men kissing and told her father; soon after that crosses were burned in the yards of those two men. Helen

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Broadway, Broad St.,

Grand Palace, Brooks St.,

Tap Room, Quarrier St. (Near entrance),

Trax Nightclub,

Wasington St., West,

Traders Boogie Club,

W. Pike St.,

Driftwood Lounge, 7th Ave.,

Polo Club, 7th Ave., (rear),

The Stonewall,

7th Ave. (rear),

Vice Versa,

Lofty St. (rear entrance),

Genders,

5th St.,

True Colors,

12th St., TRUE

Twice As Nice, Main Street,

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For more than 30 years, the space at High Street in Morgantown, West Virginia has been a gay bar, serving the state&#;s LGBTQ+ community and providing them a space to connect each other, perform, and convey themselves. 

The establishment is currently established as Vice Versa, but in the beginning of its history as an LGBTQ+ space, when it was first called The Class Act, patrons had to navigate a world that was cold and violent to them before entering the safe haven of the bar. 

“[The entrance] was in an alleyway, and there was no lighting in the alleyway. You snuck into the gay bar and you snuck out of the gay bar,” Vice Versa co-owner Montaz Morgan recalled from his time at The Class Act. “You didn’t wear ‘gay clothes.’ You brought gay clothes, and you changed into them, and then you’d put your clothes on when you left.”

The same rule applied to the entertainers, because the police were not on their side, even if they were attacked on their way home. 

“The drag queens didn’t come here already ready, they all came here to get ready, and didn’t leave until they changed out o