And, I don't think it's unique to Boston at all.īTW: I love that video. The Alley 14 Pi Alley, Boston (617) 263-1449 DBar 1236 Dorchester Ave. Looking for a gay bar near downtown Chicago This old-school spot is the place. As an institution within the city’s LGBTQ scene. Come for happy hour, Sunday afternoon mimosas, or late night. It's pretty sad, I think, 'cause the notion of gay community is disappearing in a real sense. Bars Back Bay Boston’s long-standing restaurant, piano bar, cabaret space and dance club will satisfy whatever nightlife craving you’re dealing with. The same kind of thing happened to the Eagle and Spike (not to mention others) in NYC (Chelsea). On Polk Street, a strip where the first San Francisco Gay Pride Parade took place in 1972, and was once home to 65 gay bars, peep shows, bathhouses, and hotels, only one gay bar, The Cinch, remains. Rather than keep one of the oldest bars in the country going, the owners sold out to condos.
Napoleon Club is a perfect example of what's happened. It's just not as viable to have a club anymore with people hooking up through other means and with the costs associated with operating a club in an expensive city ever escalating. Save The Boston Pancakes & Booze Art Show to your collection. What's happened to Boston gay nightlife is what's happened to NYC gay nightlife: the Internet and - just as importantly - property values, property values, property values!!! I've been away from this thread and it has evolved interestingly. What the hell happend to Boston nightlife? It use to be so much more fun. Get a time a machine and go back to the 1990's.