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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.
Jacques Cabaret, which opened in 1938 and is still in operation, is now Boston's oldest surviving "LGBT establishment." It became a gay bar in the mid-1940s, a lesbian bar in the 1960s, and a venue for drag performers in the 1970s.
The decor is out of the past when gay bars were the prime home for gays before todays more open acceptance. Love the old nostalgic interior and very friendly service. One of the oldest if the oldest remaining gay drag bar in Boston that features shows, leather nights and fine bar scene.
Opened in 1938, Jacques became a gay bar in the mid-1940s. In 1965, its owner also opened, directly across the street, The Other Side,the first discotheque in the city to allow same-sex dancing.
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.
HISTORICAL ABSTRACT. Boston’s gay subculture developed in tandem with Prohibition, where speakeasies became natural gathering places for gay individuals who were already leading a clandestine life.
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...
