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Jacques Cabaret (also stylized as Jacque's Cabaret), located at 79 Broadway in Boston, Massachusetts, is Boston's oldest continuously operating gay bar. The bar is known for its nightly drag shows and as the venue where drag performer Katya Zamolodchikova got her start hosting her popular monthly burlesque show, Perestroika.
11 kwi 2024 · Snapshots of the Boston bar Playland taken by bartender Jim McGrath and friends beginning in 1958 and ’59 show a drag queen leaning on a jukebox under clouds of balloons, and men dressed up as monsters for what looks like a Halloween party, and men in grinning groups embracing as they pose in front of Christmas decorations.
12 gru 2017 · Jacques, which is snug and charmingly frayed, still looks like an old-school gay bar with grit—a far cry from the cavernous Lansdowne Street super-clubs such as Avalon and Axis, where Knievil...
While bars like Twelve Carter and Buddie’s in Back Bay, known for its shirtless bartenders and annual Thanksgiving dinners, cultivated a crowd of mainly younger, white gay men, Boston has a long and complex history of bars catering toward women, people of color, and the transgender community.
25 lis 2023 · Jacques Cabaret. Hours of Operation Moinday-Thursday 4pm to 12am Friday 1pm – 12am Saturday-Sunday 12pm -12am. New things coming this February, stay tuned as we roll out new shows, new technology and new things! January 30, 2024. Updates. With the new year comes new updates. This we are seeing a new pricing for our shows.
Explore the relationship between community photographic practices, queer nightlife, and gay liberation in Boston. In the early 1970s, the Boston area became an important hub of gay culture, activism, and nightlife—and home to a flourishing scene of photography.
24 cze 2020 · By the 1960s, it became the only lesbian bar in the city and somehow survived demolition during a moral crusade by local politicians to purge the South End of its gay establishments. Jacques’ morphed again in the 1970s with a shift toward male clientele, leaving its lesbian patrons without a gathering space.
