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In barbecue joints, soccer bars, and bookstore parking lots, queer pop-ups and dance parties keep the culture alive and the joy flowing. In the Twin Cities and around the country, gay bars are dying. In many communities, and the Twin Cities is certainly one of them, you can get a sense for what that evolution looks like.

Minneapolis and St. Sporadic pop-ups and roving dance nights provide many of the same things. But can a loose alliance of glitter and liquor and leather really replace what those physical buildings mean for the community?

Beyond the Gay Bar: In the Twin Cities, LGBTQ+ Nightlife Is Evolving

But even more so than the soundtrack, Copeland says, there was a sense of wanting something different. Daddy Issues, which will turn two this August, was created in part to spark a little of that magic. Hot Fruitan al fresco day disco for folks who also want to be in bed by 10 p. For Gigi Berry, a. Daddy Issues regularly takes over the basement at Beast Barbecue, which has become an unlikely house music hub in the Twin Cities.

The community feels collaborative, and the organizers of various events often cross-promote one another. We have to collectively club out for each other to be a united front. While the Twin Cities has been home to all kinds of wonderful and successful queer-focused gay nights over the years— TwilightSoul FridayGrown and SexyBoobytrap —many of those events happen inconsistently or have since ended altogether.

There are a lot of advantages to operating in that nomadic fashion, and GRRRL Scout has outlived some of the bars that used to host it, including Part Wolf. Silver linings aside, of course there are reasons to grieve the decline of the gay bar. In some ways, the Twin Cities has been comparatively lucky. When Town House, the oldest gay bar in St.

Paul, closed init quickly reopened as The Black Hart of St. The bars that do exist still tend to attract and center white men. There are no lesbian bars in the state of Minnesota. The Brass Strapwhich is currently operating on a pop-up basis, is one group that wants to find out. There are challenges specific to operating a dance night on a pop-up basis, too.

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