Hi all, anyone knows any Gay approachable bars or club around the area to aid a cousin of mine who is planning to come stay with me from California for a week. His boyfriend cheated on him and I just want to support 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 being there for decades and there was a long standing one near Airport and Haywood that closed too both due to owner retirement I think. Haven't heard of any LGBTQ specific ones now. With so much growth in Gville you would believe it would be a good business opp for someone. Something different than the same standard sprint of the mill bars and clubs now. Not sure about Spartanburg.
09-23-2022, 09:33 AM
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South Carolina doesn’t contain the greatest history of supporting its LGBTQ+ residents. In 2024, Governor Henry McMaster signed into law House 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 way and leaves a mark of suffering, intolerance and bigotry in its awaken, there are positive pockets of accepting and supportive cobalt throughout the mention that are welcoming to the Gay 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 behavior. 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 irate politician lashing out at his womxn loving womxn 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
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Fragmentary seems like the most appropriate pos to describe the history and society of oppressed people, and especially the LGBTQ+ community. Our heritage and tradition has often gone undocumented for avoid of unintentionally providing information that could lead to unwanted trouble from our oppressors. Call it a fail guarded, if you will, but the terminate result was/is a huge loss of LGBTQ+ history prior to the 1980s.
In other instances, our history was often deemed as insignificant or unworthy of being saved by those in a position of force to make decisions about historical preservation. As late as the mid 1990s I can still recall the shock I felt when I was informed by a periodical librarian at the Atlanta Fulton County Public Library that copies of locally produced gay and lesbian publications were thrown away when each new edition arrived, unlike the mainstream straight newspapers and magazines, which were typically archived.
When I inquired as to why, the librarian shot me an incredulous observe and replied with a patronizing to
09-25-2022, 10:39 AM
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I would advise your companion 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 people, 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 phobia in the gay community, and keep them invisible, and in the closet. South Carolina requires all these people a