None of D.C.’s currently operating gay bars or restaurants are located within the downtown and Capitol Hill areas designated as lockdown zones associated with the Jan.
20 inauguration of President-election Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. But sources familiar with the city’s bars and restaurants, including nightlife advocate Mark Lee, say the unprecedented number of city streets that have been closed in the lockdown zones and the wide swath of the central business district shut down or disrupted in the lockdown zones has had a negative impact on businesses that are not within the lockdown zones.
Lee, director of the D.C. Nightlife Council, a trade association representing bars, restaurants and other hospitality-related