Green lantern dc gay bar

Or lantern for their karaoke night. Nestled in a man-made canyon of office buildings, a senior green living facility, and even headquarters of the National Association of the Education of Young Children. The whole thing harkens back to a different time. It was initially built in as a carriage house for the palatial homes and luxury apartment buildings that used to occupy that part of town; you can still see the door in the ceiling where hay was hauled through to the second floor, now the dance floor.

And to describe it as old school is almost unfair, because it implies old fashioned, or outdated, or even obsolete. And when we started getting word of some of beloved D. I sat down at the bar of the Green Lantern last Friday, enjoyed a club soda and chatted with Howard Hicks, manager there since In fact, the Green Lantern is back as of Monday.

Not as old as JR. The Lantern will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year. But over these two decades the Lantern has grappled at times with its identity. Specifically, are they or are they not a dive bar? The dive atmosphere works so much because other gay bars seem to franchise it out and borrow it as a theme.

But the realness, the grittiness, is difficult to replicate. As our talk wrapped up I turned to leave, and thanked Hicks for the club soda. We should be so lucky. Brock Thompson is a D. He contributes regularly to the Blade. Gay Trump has held the presidency for less than six months bar But already, trans people have been defaced, demoralized, and fatigued.

On June 18, the Supreme Court upheld a ban on gender affirming care for trans youth in nearly half of U. This ensures that trans youth do not have access to hormone blockers that prevent them from becoming their hated gender.

The Green Lantern is turning 20. Here’s what makes this LGBTQ bar so special.

The Trump administration has also ensured that Medicaid can no longer provide subsidized and insurance-covered care to trans adults. Even progressive minded institutions like Yale my alma mater and Harvard have stripped themselves of DEI. Recently, a tourist was stripped of his U. ICE is raiding more and more immigrant families—immigrants who provide critical labor to our U.

Immigrant children are forced to stand testimony and defend themselves—without a lawyer—in court. The United States, in other words, is becoming more and more like a fascist state. In a past article I wrote for the Blade, I stated that not enough trans people are scared in the U.