Gay clubs in greenville sc

South Carolina doesn’t have the greatest history of supporting its LGBTQ+ residents. In 2024, Governor Henry McMaster signed into law Property 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 behavior and leaves a impression of suffering, intolerance and bigotry in its arouse, 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 sapphic 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 try to capture the attention of the medi

09-22-2022, 11:43 PM

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Hi all, anyone knows any Gay amiable bars or club around the area to help a cousin of mine who is planning to come wait with me from California for a week. His boyfriend/girlfriend cheated on him and I just want to serve 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 ponder. Haven't heard of any LGBTQ specific ones now. With so much development in Gville you would think it would be a good business opp for someone. Something different than the same standard dash of the mill bars and clubs now. Not sure about Spartanburg.

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I would advise your friend that South Carolina in general is not homosexual friendly territory. Despite sodomy laws organism struck down in 2003 by the Supreme Court, South Carolina does selectively enforce these laws anyways; they execute it to strike fear in the gay community, and keep them unseen, and in the closet. .

It is hard to have faith you've been to Greenville if you think gay people are generally in the closet here.

09-26-2022, 06:52 AM

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I would urge your friend that South Carolina in general is not gay friendly land. 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 group, 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 behind to watch the drag shows and the younger crowds they bring.

“Grandma” is otherwise known as Bill Skipper. The 74 year old 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 diverse — and fraught — period to be in a lgbtq+ bar in South Carolina.

“The kids now, I love the release they feel. I love it,” he said. “We’d have loved to have had that (freedom), but we all drink 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 male lover bar, which opened in 2000.

Through discussions with bar owners and patrons and analyzing records from Historic Columbia, The Carolina News and Reporter uncovered a strange statistic: Columbia, in 2022, has only those two gay bars, the lowest number in the city since 1960. The number peak