Gay club in richmond
Venture Richmond To Downtown RVA’s Newest Gay Bar: Papi’s
With September being Richmond’s unofficial pride month, I wanted to feature the newest LGBTQIA+ bar in the city: Papi’s (@papisdowntown)! 🏳️🌈🥳 Owned by Adrienne and Carlos Londoño (who also own La Bodega, Casa Fiesta, and Margaritas Cantina 👏), Papi’s is bringing a taste of Miami to Shockoe Slip. As soon as you saunter in, you are immediately greeted by a sea of colors and approachable vibes all around! 🤗🌈 The servers match the welcoming atmosphere and their positive energy is contagious. For it being a bar/club, I was of course expecting delicious drinks, but the biggest surprise of all was the SPECTACULAR food I tried.
First are the Birria Tacos which were highly recommended by my server, so naturally, I HAD to order them! 😅🌮 They had to be the THICCEST tacos I’ve ever held with some of the juiciest shredded beef I’ve tasted in a birria taco. Not to mention, I’m absolutely OBSESSED with the rainbow toucan dish the consommé was served in…yep you browse that right, A FRICKEN TOUCAN!!! The meal also came with sides of rice and beans and I had plenty of leftovers 🙌
Pictured next is the Bandeja Paisa which is a
Official Richmond Pride Bar Crawl
Share the Official Richmond Lock Crawl Ticket Link
If you have friends coming, deliver them the official link to buy tickets – you’ll need those wristbands for entry!
Be on the Lookout for the Digital Bar List
Keep an eye out for an email from info@BarCrawlLIVE.com. This will include the all-important "Digital Bar List," coming to your inbox one week before the event.
Follow the "Digital Bar List"
This is your ultimate guide for the day! It includes everything from registration spots and wristband pick-up times to bar hours, specials, and more.
Pick Up Your Wristbands On Time
Make sure to collect your wristband at the designated check-in bar during the allotted time. If you're tardy, you’ll miss out – no wristband, no entry!
Have a Friend Pick Up Everyone's Wristbands
Can’t make it to check-in? No problem! Assign a friend to pick up your wristband so you don’t yearn out on the fun.
Note Bar Hours
Each bar has its own operating hours listed in the "Digital Bar List," and your wristband and specials are only valid during those times. Plan your crawl accordingly!
Dress Festively for Pride
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When a Gay Exclude in Richmond was an Introduction to a Society
Bill Harrison is the executive director of Diversity Richmond, which serves Main Virginia's LGBTQ communities. Harrison grew up in the small farming community of Emporia, Virginia and moved to Richmond as an adult. This week he led a vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting, and here he shares about the significance of gay bars in Richmond.
“I’ve lived in Richmond since the mid-70s, and actually my initial introduction to the same-sex attracted community was through a gay bar. I was in college, and I had become friends with a guy who was a good friend, and a few months into the friendship he came out to me. I, at that time, did not even know what the word ‘gay’ meant. I knew that I was homosexual, but I did not think that you actually did anything about it. I mind you would just position it in the assist of your mind and marry a woman.
“And so when Jack came out to me, he told me about a lgbtq+ bar in Richmond, the Dial Tone. And he said ‘I know a couple hundred gay men,’ and I thought to myself, ‘he’s really a liar, because there’s not 200 gay men in America.’
“And so we got in his red Vega, and we drove down Je
All too often, queer history is ignored or concealed from us by societal strictures of both the past and present. This map is a petty attempt to remedy that.
It’s our hope to shed some light on Richmond faces and places that haven’t received the attention they deserve. From authoritative rocker Sister Rosetta Tharpe to the Mulberry Residence, the evolution of the local queer press to the formative days of Hollywood’s first openly same-sex attracted star, William “Billy” Haines, many here should own a higher profile in our collective conscience.
The communication included in the guide is deeply indebted to the work of others, including Beth Marschak and Alex Lorch, The Valentine, Virginia Department of Historic Resources’ Blake McDonald, Yelyzaveta Shevchenko’s “Reconnaissance Survey of LGBTQ Architectural Resources in the City of Richmond” for DHR’s LGBTQ Heritage Working Group, author John Musgrove, and Cindy Bray’s “Rainbow Richmond: LGBTQ History of Richmond, VA, 1625-2010.” Marschak and Lorch’s manual, “Lesbian and Gay Richmond,” should be required reading for every Richmonder.
By formatting this information as a map, we hope to give Richmonders a straight link to their past. Undoubtedly, we have
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