Gay bars in salt lake city utah
Salt Lake City’s Rainbow Colors Fly Year Round
Don’t miss out on everything that this vibrant municipality has to offer.
Written By Matcha
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Utah's capital is among the top 10 U.S. metro areas with the largest gay populations, according to Gallup. In fact, Salt Lake City has a higher percentage of people self-identifying as gay than Los Angeles. If you're surprised, it might be that you haven’t spent much time lately in this gay-friendly town, which over the past two decades has become a destination for those who enjoy both a hip urban atmosphere and simple access to the great outdoors.
Known for its epic event parade held every June, Salt Lake City is welcoming to the homosexual community year-round. In 2015, the town elected its first openly gay mayor, and in 2016, 20 city blocks were renamed Harvey Milk Boulevard, in honor of the famous gay rights activist and politician. While it has its share of LGBTQ-owned and operated businesses, Salt Lake City is also known for its bars and restaurants that are welcoming to everyone.
The anchor of the LGBTQ+ people is the Marmalade dist
Utah's first LGBTQ+ sports bar opens in Salt Lake City
They are Utah's first gay sports bar.
The Locker Room was transformed out of the former Fiddlers Elbow and Salt Lake Pizza and Pasta.
"We wanted to create a space for everyone, especially those in the queer community that don’t like the crazy late hours life," said co-owner Lynn Katoa.
They aren't just open at nighttime, serving breakfast all day!
"This was something I dreamed of doing as a young adult," Lynn explained. "After retiring from the airline industry, it was now or never."
The Locker Room serves delicious food from flat breads and pizza to burgers and few Fiddlers Elbow favorites enjoy The Garlic Burger, Fettuccine Alfredo, and Black & Blue Salad.
Come sit down, enjoy a meal, and have a cocktail while having great conversations.
Located in the Sugarhouse area (1063 E 2100 S), they are considered a friendly neighborhood bar and restaurant open from 11AM to 1AM daily.
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In a mention known for its religious zeal, Salt Lake City serves as a bastion of progressiveness, teasing, and pride. In fact, the city’s been listed by Advocate magazine as one of the Ten Queerest Cities in America. The metropolis holds one of the biggest and best-attended Pride parades and festivals around, with Pride Week festivities attracting tens of thousands of participants who brightness up the downtown scene in entire rainbow-hued regalia. (There’s even a Utah Gay Ski Week—real thing, utahgayskiweek.com, spot you there.)
Of course, it doesn’t contain to be a parade to mark pride and inclusivity. It’s pretty simple for everyone of every orientation to jump in on the incredible enjoyable that is Salt Lake on a hot city bedtime and the regular rotation of flamboyant shows keep the city sizzling all through the winter.
Check out a not many of our favorite “officially” gay bars and gay-friendly bars—keeping in mind that, in this town, it needn’t be a “gay bar” for everyone to fit right in.
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Many decades ago, there was a tiny little women's bar located under a viaduct just about where The Gateway stands today. My buddy Bucket and I were baby gays and really wanted to go to the bar but were terrified for a not many reasons—mainly because we weren't sure that our false IDs would pass muster there.
We were hanging out at the old Star Tavern, which used to be at the northwest corner of where the Delta Center now stands, because our IDs did pass muster there. "The Sun," as we called it, was a excellent place to dance to disco, smoke on the patio and throw dollars at drag queens who performed there regularly. By the way, it was named—tongue in cheek—after the Sun Stone at the Nauvoo Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
When we did get the courage to go to "Perky's" one night, we learned from a small care for note on the door that the bar had "closed forever and [had] moved to Idaho. Thanks for your business!" Damn.
I've been out since the '70s and was the first out realtor in the Salt Lake Board of Realtors. I ran an ad in local papers of me sitting on my motorcycle that read "If you won't ride with me I don't want you as