Tag: #GayBar

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Fountainhead Pub ahead of Vancouver’s Pride celebration (images via Instagram) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made headlines yesterday when he stopped in at the Fountainhead Pub in Vancouver’s West End in advance of the city’s Pride celebration this weekend. Many believe this may have been the first time a sitting Prime Minister dropped by a gay bar. According to Taran Parmar, reporter for City News 1130, Trudeau walked around the pub shaking hands and posing for...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Fountainhead Pub ahead of Vancouver’s Pride celebration (images via Instagram) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made headlines yesterday when he stopped in at the Fountainhead Pub in Vancouver’s West End in advance of the city’s Pride celebration this weekend. Many believe this may have been the first time a sitting Prime Minister dropped by a gay bar. According to Taran Parmar, reporter for City News 1130, Trudeau walked around the pub shaking hands and posing for...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand serves drinks at Des Moines gay bar (image via campaign)New York Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand dropped by local gay bar The Blazing Saddle in Des Moines, Iowa, to help celebrate the city’s Pride weekend. According to The Hill, Gillibrand stepped behind the bar to offer libations to the patrons as the capital city kicked off Pride Month celebrations. Twitter-users posted photos and video of the White House...

Credit: BoxersBoxers has opened a brand new location in the Washington Heights area of New York City that is simply fabulous. Washington Heights, or are the locals refer to it as WaHi, is a very left of center type of place in The Big Apple.  It’s an area of the city that I never traveled to up until I moved there recently. WaHi is far away from the hellish traffic and noise that...

One of New York’s favorite gay bars has just closed it doors, and the reason is pretty infuriating. Therapy, located in the Hell’s Kitchen gayborhood of Manhattan, announced on Thursday that it was forced to close right before LGBT Pride Month because the building next to it is being condemned.  A statement from the bar reads: Out New York Council Speaker Corey Johnson addressed the matter on his Twitter, saying that it was...

(stock image via Depositphotos)Progress Bar, a gay bar in Chicago, is getting some ‘racism side-eye’ after a leaked email from management instructed its DJs to ban rap music from their playlists. The message, which was shared on Twitter, read: (image via Twitter)So, not only is rap banned from Progress Bar (it’s in ALL CAPS for emphasis), but the email makes it clear that rap will result in DJs not being asked back. Plus, there’s...