Check the website to see who’s playing and buy tickets in advance. Even when drag is off the menu, the space caters to SLC’s alternative crowd with a range of live events to suit almost everyone’s taste.
On Septem(Friday the 13th), Re-bar hosted the release party for Nirvana’s second studio album, and major label debut, Nevermind.
Steve and Linda meet here in the movie Singles. Leave the long Mormon garments at home, this event is more Andrew Christian than Joseph Smith.Īlthough this midsize concert venue isn’t explicitly gay, Metro hosts the city’s best drag shows (it’s the number one place to find the girls of RuPaul’s Drag Race when they’re in town). Re-bar opened in 1990, just as Seattle bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden were gaining national recognition. The local crowd gets rowdy on the third Thursday of every month after checking their clothes for the Underwear Party. A favorite place to grab a drink after work or before a show at the Moore. For decades West Seattle's best dive bar. This laid-back bar is famous for cheap drinks, Thursday night karaoke, and Sunday BBQs on the patio between Mother’s Day and Labor Day. Chinese restaurant with back bar that did karaoke 7 nights a week.
Expect live DJs, drag queens, go-go dancers, and a weekly party theme inviting you to dress up so you can get down in style. This straight lounge becomes a queer dance club once every week for Revolution Fridays. The city is chock-a-block with hip coffee shops, international food options, artistic offerings, and enough outdoor activities to make you feel you’re living in a Patagonia clothing ad.
Shop Breville the Barista Pro Espresso Machine with 15 bars of pressure. You’ll find queer folks congregating in neighborhoods like Sugar House, the Marmalade District of Capitol Hill, and in the Avenues near Temple Square, but there’s no true gayborhood of which to speak. (Had a convo with my fellow queer baristas about the gay barista stereotype. In some ways, Salt Lake City is so gay it’s post-gay. That’s higher than both New York City and Los Angeles. A whopping 4.7 percent of the population identifies as LGBT.
The same year Biskupski was elected, Gallup released a poll naming Salt Lake City the seventh gayest city in the United States. SLC is so queer-friendly that officials renamed a street in honor of the politician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk in 2016. She currently serves with three openly gay city council members: Amy Fowler, Derek Kitchen, and Chris Wharton. In 2015, Jackie Biskupski became the city’s first openly gay mayor. Nowhere is this change more pronounced than in Salt Lake’s flourishing LGBTQ+ community. Photo: Austen Diamond Photography/Visit Salt Lake