Everything Felt Cursed After Carrie Nation Closed
Before it became Ginger’s, the Brooklyn gay bar was its very own neighborhood opera.
- story: Alexander Chee
- illustration: Lydia Ortiz
This Week’s Best Drink Reads
Welcome to The PUNCHbowl, a weekly installment where we share our favorite longreads on all things drinks and nightlife. This week we looked more closely at France's craft beer scene, got to know…
- story: Punch Staff
Oasis
Given the rapid contraction of San Francisco venues over the past few years, when Oasis opened its doors on New Year’s Eve 2014, S.F.’s drag community whooped in unison. Owned…
- story: Bianca Prum
The Best Gay Bars in Washington, D.C.
It might come as a surprise to learn that Washington, D.C.—our nation's capital, if you've managed to forget—has been described as “the gayest place in America.” As an epicenter, gay…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
The Case of America’s Disappearing Gay Bars
In cities like San Francisco and New York, gay bars—once central to both a city's gay community and the liberation movement itself—are in decline. Peter Lawrence Kane on where LGBT…
- story: Peter Lawrence Kane
- photo: Elvert Barnes
The Best Gay Bars in San Francisco
San Francisco is in a period of massive flux, and gay nightlife is not immune to all the changes. Demographic shifts, exorbitant rents and greater acceptance of same-sex attraction have…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
