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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 is one of the oldest continuously operating gay bars in the city of Boston. Best drag shows in the city are here. Also a lot of cabaret shows. Mixed crowd (boys/girls young/old). Friendly casual atmosphere.
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.
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.
17 paź 2024 · The gay bar scene in Boston at this time provided a much needed refuge for the city’s LGBTQ+ population. Folks who did not feel safe coming out at home or work could express their identities openly without risking stability in their everyday lives.
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.
24 cze 2020 · Remaining shuttered isn’t exactly the nature of Jacques’, Boston’s longest-running LGBTQ+ establishment. Originally founded in Boston’s South End in 1938 by local nightclub owner Henry Vara, Jacques’ morphed into a gay bar sometime in the 1940s (the club is still owned by the Vara family).
