Next time you’re in Dallas, lasso up your friends and take them to this kitsch Oak Lawn dance hall where queer culture meets line dancing and twangy country music. Round-Up Saloon, Dallas Courtesy of Round Up Saloon Drop in for a drag show, catch a late-night DJ set, or simply pull up a stool at the bar-no matter your gender or orientation, you’re in for a good time. To that end, here’s a pared-down list of our favorite queer bars, restaurants, and clubs in major cities across America. Not only that, they’re back with a vengeance-and need your business now more than ever in light of discriminatory anti-transgender legislation and distressing Don’t Say Gay laws. 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.
