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U.S. Gay Bars Are Closing Their Doors at a Heartbreaking Pace
Them ^ | Feb 18, 2026 | Mathew Rodriguez

Posted on 03/12/2026 9:25:04 AM PDT by fwdude

When it comes to the queer bar in the wild, so many threats exist, and it's only gotten worse in the past few years. Higher upfront costs combined with lower foot traffic have caused a nationwide problem for the service and food industries, which is exacerbated in queer spaces, which deal with smaller demographics than the average bar or restaurant. And of course, there’s the fact that many people, especially younger people, just don’t go out or have a third space anymore.

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To: Karliner

Amen!!!!


41 posted on 03/12/2026 9:41:14 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: ansel12

And the steel mills.


42 posted on 03/12/2026 9:41:39 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo sman is always intense)
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To: Augie
wherever it is poofters hang out

I hold out hope that the Philosophy Department at the University of Wooloomaloo still abides by RULE ONE.

43 posted on 03/12/2026 9:41:58 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MotorCityBuck

44 posted on 03/12/2026 9:42:34 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Jeff Chandler

The DUmmy lurkers always out themselves on this site.


45 posted on 03/12/2026 9:42:50 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

It never occurs to them people may not want to continue with the sin or that it was a fad and people see it for what it is and human nature is correcting themselves.

Nope it can only be threats.

History has always had homosexuality as a deviancy, it has only been viewed as slightly more or less deviant, never fully normalized. Even where it was practiced more it was not openly common, especially among the working class, at most it was the perverse practice of the elite.


46 posted on 03/12/2026 9:43:14 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: fwdude

The whole LGBTQWTFAI+- “community” have the most mental illness than anyone. You can not drink booze with all the psychiatric drugs they are on.


47 posted on 03/12/2026 9:43:29 AM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: Augie
wherever it is poofters hang out these days

The DNC.

48 posted on 03/12/2026 9:43:42 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: fwdude

The author.

49 posted on 03/12/2026 9:44:24 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: pburgh01

No, I’m thinking he simply doesn’t want to interact with homosexuals, like most normal people.


50 posted on 03/12/2026 9:44:48 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: dfwgator
Yes. In general alcohol consumption is way down. DUI has extreme penalties.
Loss of license and fines. It's like Russian roulette to drive to a bar and drink.

51 posted on 03/12/2026 9:46:51 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: simpson96

Geez! Glow sticks and a pocket full of rainbows, that one.


52 posted on 03/12/2026 9:46:53 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: fwdude
have a third space anymore.

Not sure of the exact meaning of third space but I like the sound of it.

What is heartbreaking to me is how many neighborhood bars have closed in the last two decades.

Not that I was bar hopping which I left behind in my twenties.

But there used to be a lot of neighborhood bars that had good food at reasonable prices with a family friendly atmosphere.

If the no smoking rules didn't take them out, the scamdemic did.

The best fried chicken and fried fish that I ever ate were all at neighborhood bars.

53 posted on 03/12/2026 9:47:41 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: ansel12

At an STD breaking pace?


54 posted on 03/12/2026 9:49:25 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: pburgh01
"Sorry, your masculinity is threatened, which makes me wonder when I hear men get all full of saltiness over stuff like this. You have bi tendencies,."

In my experience, only faggots try to gay shame straight men. You live in a glass house my friend.

55 posted on 03/12/2026 9:50:16 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: simpson96; ansel12

Says it all. 👇

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“Mathew Rodriguez is the former senior news editor at Them. In the past, he has been a senior culture editor at The Atlantic, as well as a staff writer at Out Magazine, INTO, and Mic. His writing has been featured in Slate, Teen Vogue, The Village Voice, MEL Magazine, and more.”


56 posted on 03/12/2026 9:50:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: Organic Panic
The whole LGBTQWTFAI+- “community” have the most mental illness than anyone. You can not drink booze with all the psychiatric drugs they are on.

A conservative investigative reporter and blogger once went undercover into some queer bars and struck up conversations with some of the patrons, asking how old they were when they had their first sexual experience with men, and how young some of their partners were. The answers were horrific, and would have been an instant prison sentence on a witness stand. A lot of them confided that they wished they were not gay.

57 posted on 03/12/2026 9:50:42 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: All

I’m not an expert on this but I’d imagine the internet makes it a lot easier for gays to find other gays to have random sex with. You don’t need to go to a cruising bar for that sorta thing anymore


58 posted on 03/12/2026 9:51:57 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: fwdude

Aids gatherings.

Only a retard would go


59 posted on 03/12/2026 9:53:18 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: dfwgator

Kids In The Hall and SCTV > 75% of SNL (100% of current SNL)


60 posted on 03/12/2026 9:54:36 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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