The blog Faggoty-Ass Faggot first points out that “Gay Bars” are listed by as one of the top 10 businesses facing extinction and then offers the following explanation:īefore we had the Web, and Facebook, and MySpace, and chat rooms, we had to leave the house to meet people. There has been so much talk about what is happening and the net effect it is having, however, no one has truly enlightened us as to exactly why this is happening. Very soon both Manray Video Bar and Pony Bar will be torn down. Brass Connection had played a key role in moving Seattle’s gay scene to Capitol Hill. Sugar Bar recently changed from a gay format to a straight hip-hop club and the gay bar Blu, which took over Brass Connection, would also become a straight hip-hop bar called War Room. Recently, Seattle lost Thumper’s after 20 years in business and the first gay bar on Capitol Hill, the Elite, closed down and has yet to reopen. It is not that the neighborhoods themselves are in decline but the fact that the gay population is not going out to the “gay bar” as much anymore and the speed of gentrification in places like Seattle’s Capitol Hill is enough to make your head spin.
So much has been written recently about the fact that “gayborhoods” and gay nightlife are in a dramatic decline all around the country. © Photo Courtesy of Kelsey Branca ( Too_Tired)
