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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.
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.
As gay bars and drag shows go, this one is pretty divey . The bar itself is small. The drag show was in a small part of the bar. Hard to move around. The girls were just OK. The bartenders are older. it wasn't awful but it wasn't great. Try a different venue.
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.
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4 lis 2023 · Jacques is the longest operating gay bar in Boston (RIP Playland). Afternoons it is the local homo watering hole in Bay Village. When the sun goes down the glamour comes up. Jacques is the premier drag bar. Nightly shows which are very full of life's piss and vinegar!
