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Salt Lake serves as a bastion of progressiveness, teasing, and pride. In reality, the city's been listed by Advocate magazine as one of the Ten Queerest Cities in America! The city holds one of the biggest and best-attended Pride parades and festivals around, with Celebration Week festivities attracting tens of thousands of participants who light up the downtown scene in occupied rainbow-hued regalia. Of course, it doesn't have to be parade week to celebrate pride and inclusivity as our gay bars do that year round.
So, check out a few of our favorite gay bars and gay-friendly bars— because, in this town, it needn't be a "gay bar" for everyone to fit right in.
Insider tip:If you value inexpensive drinks and dancing to club remixes of Whitney Houston and Ariana Grande, you'll probably discover yourself becoming a regular. And definitely go often because Sun Trapp typically offers entry with no cover charge, although you might expect to linger a few minutes for bar service on weekends.
Insider Tip: The bar is normally known for a chill vibe—except during their theme events like Underwear Night or Leather Late hours, when you can hope for an epic
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Thirty-Two
by Brad Westwood
Although the LGBTQ+ community had many prior informal political and social gathering spots elsewhere in Salt Lake City, a number of bars and taverns located in the Pioneer Park neighborhood served as a place to gather for Salt Lake City’s emerging LGBTQ+ communities.
In 1970, just one year after Fresh York City’s Stonewall Riots sparked national gay and lesbian movements, Perky’s, which advertised as a lock for women but discreetly served Salt Lake City’s lesbian population, opened its doors on North Temple Street. Perky’s was eventually torn down to generate way for the rebuilding of the I-15 North Temple overpass. The ancient west Salt Lake Capital was also the abode of other LGBTQ+ gathering places, including the Rose Tavern opened in the early 1970s and whose name was eventually changed to the Rail; the Uptown opened in 1976 at 1500 South and 400 West; Studio 8 opened during the mid-1970s at 800 West and 200 South; and the Comeback Club opened in 1977, located at 551 South and 300 West, which also became a popular gathering place for members of Salt Lake’s LGBTQ+.
Like other established communities, the Pioneer Park LGB
Many decades ago, there was a tiny little women's bar located under a viaduct just about where The Gateway stands today. My confidant Bucket and I were baby gays and really wanted to go to the bar but were terrified for a not many reasons—mainly because we weren't sure that our counterfeit IDs would pass muster there.
We were hanging out at the old Light Tavern, which used to be at the northwest corner of where the Delta Center now stands, because our IDs did pass muster there. "The Sun," as we called it, was a amazing place to dance to disco, smoke on the patio and throw dollars at drag queens who performed there regularly. By the way, it was named—tongue in cheek—after the Sun Stone at the Nauvoo Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
When we did get the courage to go to "Perky's" one night, we learned from a small cherish note on the door that the bar had "closed forever and [had] moved to Idaho. Thanks for your business!" Damn.
I've been out since the '70s and was the first out realtor in the Salt Lake Board of Realtors. I ran an ad in local papers of me sitting on my motorcycle that read "If you won't ride with me I don't want you as
Drink it In:
Salt Lake’s Same-sex attracted Bar Scene Is Growing, Thriving, and Never Looking Back
In a state recognizable for its religious zeal, Salt Lake City serves as a bastion of progressiveness, playfulness, and identity festival. In fact, the city’s been listed by Advocate magazine as one of the Ten Queerest Cities in America. The city holds one of the biggest and best-attended Pride parades and festivals around, with Pride Week festivities attracting tens of thousands of participants who light up the downtown scene in full rainbow-hued regalia. (There’s even a Utah Lgbtq+ Ski Week—real thing, utahgayskiweek.com, see you there.)
Of course, it doesn’t have to be a parade to celebrate pride and inclusivity. It’s pretty easy for everyone of every orientation to jump in on the incredible fun that is Salt Lake on a hot city darkness and the regular rotation of drag shows preserve the city sizzling all through the winter.
Check out a few of our favorite “officially” gay bars and gay-friendly bars—keeping in mind that, in this town, it needn’t be a “gay bar” for everyone to fit right in.
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