Then the pandemic hit, driving another nail in the coffin for even more LGBTQ businesses.īut happily, and against all odds, many of our go-to LGBTQ spaces are still standing. Others chalked it up to soaring rents and an increasingly challenging business model.
Nobody was quite sure why: Some blamed the bad run on the advent of dating apps like Grindr, which made it easy to flirt from the couch. Even before Covid-19 torpedoed nightlife nationwide, queer spaces were shuttering left and right.
It’s a weird time for gay bars in America.
