Hi all, anyone knows any Gay kind bars or club around the area to help a cousin of mine who is planning to come remain with me from California for a week. His partner cheated on him and I just want to aid the guy out for the meantime while he is here.
09-23-2022, 08:38 AM
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I believe the Castle off Pleasantburg closed several years back after entity there for decades and there was a long standing one near Airport and Haywood that closed too both due to owner retirement I reflect. Haven't heard of any LGBTQ specific ones now. With so much maturation in Gville you would think it would be a good business opp for someone. Something different than the same standard jog of the mill bars and clubs now. Not sure about Spartanburg.
09-23-2022, 09:33 AM
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09-25-2022, 10:39 AM
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I would advise your confidant that South Carolina in general is not gay friendly area. Despite sodomy laws being struck down in 2003 by the Supreme Court, South Carolina does selectively enforce these laws anyways; they do it to strike fear in the gay society, and keep them invisible, and in the closet. .
It is hard to believe you've been to Greenville if you consider gay people are generally in the closet here.
09-26-2022, 06:52 AM
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I would advise your friend that South Carolina in general is not gay friendly territory. Despite sodomy laws being struck down in 2003 by the Supreme Court, South Carolina does selectively enforce these laws anyways; they do it to strike dread in the gay community, and keep them invisible, and in the closet. South Carolina requires all these people a
“Grandma” comes everyday for happy hour, sitting with other old-timers. When he can, he stays tardy to watch the drag shows and the younger crowds they bring.
“Grandma” is otherwise known as Bill Skipper. The 74 year antique is the president of The Capital Club and one of its founding members. He has been president since the year it opened in 1980. He likes to tell younger people about The Capital Club’s early days, a very unlike — and fraught — time to be in a gay bar in South Carolina.
“The kids now, I like the freedom they feel. I cherish it,” he said. “We’d have loved to have had that (freedom), but we all slurp from wells we didn’t dig.”
The Capital Club, or simply “Capital,” as patrons call it, is the oldest operating gay bar in Columbia, and according to its website, in the Southeast. Just around the corner is PT’s 1109, the city’s other gay lock, which opened in 2000.
Through discussions with bar owners and patrons and reviewing records from Historic Columbia, The Carolina News and Journalist uncovered a strange statistic: Columbia, in 2022, has only those two male lover bars, the lowest number in the city since 1960. The number climax
South Carolina doesn’t have the greatest history of supporting its LGBTQ+ residents. In 2024, Governor Henry McMaster signed into law Home Bill 4624, which blocks gender-affirming care for anyone under 18 that resides in the state. While the law impacts all residents in South Carolina in a negative style and leaves a highlight of suffering, intolerance and bigotry in its arise, there are positive pockets of accepting and supportive blue throughout the articulate that are welcoming to the LGBTQ+ community. Two of such energy can be found in Greenville and Spartanburg.
Simple acknowledgment of the LGBTQ+ community in South Carolina started out in an exceptionally rocky manner. On May 22, 1996, Greenville County passed an anti-gay “family values” resolution, coming just three weeks before that year’s Olympic games were to be held in Atlanta. The reason? Opportunity politics. An angry politician lashing out at his queer woman daughter had issued a resolution in Georgia’s Cobb County that their region was incompatible with the Lesbian and Gay “lifestyle.” Greenville County in South Carolina – specific reasons unknown – followed suit, likely in an endeavor to capture the attention of the medi