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Salt Lake City’s Rainbow Colors Fly Year Round
Don’t overlook out on everything that this vibrant city has to offer.
Written By Matcha
Salt Lake City | Austen Diamond/Visit Salt Lake
Utah's capital is among the superior 10 U.S. metro areas with the largest same-sex attracted 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 relax both a hip urban atmosphere and easy access to the great outdoors.
Known for its epic movement parade held every June, Salt Lake City is welcoming to the gay community year-round. In 2015, the city elected its first openly gay mayor, and in 2016, 20 city blocks were renamed Harvey Milk Boulevard, in honor of the legendary 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+ community is the Marmalade dist
Salt Lake serves as a bastion of progressiveness, playfulness, and pride. In truth, the city's been listed by Advocate magazine as one of the Ten Queerest Cities in America! The town holds one of the biggest and best-attended Pride parades and festivals around, with Pride Week festivities attracting tens of thousands of participants who soft up the downtown scene in occupied rainbow-hued regalia. Of course, it doesn't have to be parade week to celebrate pride and inclusivity as our gay bars perform that year round.
So, check out a few of our favorite homosexual bars and gay-friendly bars— because, in this town, it needn't be a "gay bar" for everyone to fit right in.
Insider tip:If you love inexpensive drinks and dancing to club remixes of Whitney Houston and Ariana Grande, you'll probably uncover yourself becoming a regular. And definitely go often because Sun Trapp typically offers entry with no cover impose , although you might expect to delay a few minutes for bar service on weekends.
Insider Tip: The bar is normally known for a chill vibe—except during their theme events like Underwear Night or Leather Night, when you can expect an epic
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In a mention known for its religious zeal, Salt Lake City serves as a bastion of progressiveness, banter, and pride. In fact, the city’s been listed by Advocate magazine as one of the Ten Queerest Cities in America. The city holds one of the biggest and best-attended Pride parades and festivals around, with Celebration Week festivities attracting tens of thousands of participants who beam up the downtown scene in full rainbow-hued regalia. (There’s even a Utah Gay Ski Week—real thing, utahgayskiweek.com, see you there.)
Of course, it doesn’t have to be a parade to mark pride and inclusivity. It’s beautiful easy for everyone of every orientation to jump in on the incredible fun that is Salt Lake on a spicy city night and the regular rotation of drag shows save the city sizzling all through the winter.
Check out a limited of our favorite “officially” male lover 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 small women's bar located under a viaduct just about where The Gateway stands today. My ally Bucket and I were baby gays and really wanted to go to the bar but were terrified for a few reasons—mainly because we weren't sure that our fake IDs would pass muster there.
We were hanging out at the antique Sun 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 twirl 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 bedtime, we learned from a small like 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 sit on with me I don't want you as