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Jersey City forms bar northernmost point with Pint and Six26, backing into the densely packed offerings of New York City across the river. Nothing — a gay Bermuda triangle where the bars that dare enter soon disappear. Club Feathers has been around since We regret the omission. The Spot occupies an unassuming house in a residential neighborhood.

It opens into an intimate bar space that has the usual mirrors and high tops of any standard drinking establishment, but the real charm sits in the belly of the building. With a max capacity of aboutthe new bar invites visions of comfy conversations with friends, not so much well shots and ragers.

A big house party. Yet, even gay it was a Wednesday night, a sizable crowd came out to toast the only gay bar for 30 miles. The response has been a steady stream of support as staff make final tweaks to the decor, setup, and event calendar. In all the festivities, the same feeling of grateful surprise bubbles up again and again.

It came from a woman in her 50s who had entered alone. When Acciardi greeted her, the woman said that she planned to come back on another night with friends, but she simply had to check the place out as soon as she could.

244 Spot aims to fill Central Jersey’s gay bar desert

The Colosseum closed in It was the most famous of the four. Luck is more than familiar with the now-barren landscape of gay Central Jersey. On Facebook, about bar. The Den earned its claim to fame. It happened in when police regularly gay and shut down gay bars on charges of lewd public behavior. Since those early days, gay bars have provided sanctuaries, battlegrounds, supports, and escapes for a community that has had few spaces to feel safe and celebrated.

The fight for equality has brought a bittersweet change to that landscape. Marriage equality is now a legal reality across the country. In New Jersey, sexual orientation and gender identity are both protected categories; and more businesses openly cater to the LGBTQ crowd, including apps like Scruff and the ever-popular Grindr.

Instead, mixed spaces have risen to take their place — bars, and venues that welcome LGBTQ clientele without the expectation that the majority of patrons will be queer. So naturally, a question comes to mind that would have sounded insane 15 years ago: is there even a point to gay bars anymore? Yes, times a hundred! There are more people on our side than a lot of people think, but there are so many haters out there who have a better platform to speak on than those who are on our side.

Even in New Jersey, school boards are flooded with candidates for office who compete to ban the most books featuring black or LGBTQ characters.