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EPISODE 69: Jeffrey Bloom discusses his memories of several Boston gay bars from the 60s and 70s, including Punch Bowl, Jacque's and the Napoleon Club. #gay...
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.
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.
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...
11 kwi 2024 · Walker photographed in the Combat Zone, Boston’s red light district of strip clubs, burlesque bars and porno movie houses. In 1982, he also recorded friends in Fort Hill Faggots for Freedom, “a radical living collective of more than 20 gay people” in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood.
For example, Jaques' Cabaret, the city's only lesbian bar from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, and evolved into a venue for drag performers, which remains its focus to today. We want to tell these stories of how queer spaces have evolved.
17 paź 2024 · This area featured speakeasies, raids, Boston marriages, early publication of queer literature, famous gay bars, and AIDS epidemic protests. This tour will focus on the faces and places of the queer community in the West End and how they shifted over time.
