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Although GQB used to be an actual sneak attack on a bar, the last few times I went GQB seemed to have rented out the space.
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GQB announces the bar of choice the Thursday night before the party and everyone shows up the next Friday. Boston Guerrilla Queer Bar is a traveling gay bar that “overtakes” normally straight bars for one night each month. In addition to the night-specific girl parties, there’s also a couple of traveling queer nights. On Tuesdays you can head over to Zuzu for their Queer Ladies Night, which is a little quieter than some other parties but also notable for being much more T-accessible than virtually every other party ever. I’m not even going to pretend I don’t love a good round of karaoke. Queeraoke usually draws a cool crowd, if not a lot of the same JP folks from the Milky Way. If you’re looking to party on Thursdays, the only place to be is in JP at The Midway for the mostly lesbian and gender-queer Queeraoke. I happen to really like the Foundation Room because it sort of looks like someone else’s rich grandmother’s living room. Venus Rising is a private party in the extremely lush Foundation Room at the House of Blues held the first Friday of every month. It’s a pretty rocking party, and it’s won Best of Boston a couple of years in a row now.
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The Milky Way is a restaurant in JP that gets packed full of JP regulars social drinking in the front and dancing in the back.
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THIS IS RACHEL AND LIZ THE NIGHT THEY WROTE UP A BUNCH OF RULES ABOUT HOW TO HAVE FUN AND THEN EXECUTED THEM FLAWLESSLY AT MACHINEĭyke Night also runs Fourth Fridays at the Milky Way, Venus Rising at the House of Blues and a slew of holiday specific parties. Machine is normally a gay club with a pseudo-leather bar upstairs (Ramrod) but I’ve always found it to be completely lesbian friendly even during non-Dyke Night times. In light of the largest women’s party in New England thing, it’s critical to arrive at Machine no later than 10pm or you will not party, you will just stand in line. Second Saturday is run by Dyke Night (a Boston group who runs several lesbian nights in the city) and is also the largest lesbian dance party in New England. The biggest is Second Saturday at Machine. While Boston lacks a proper lesbian bar, there is basically a girls night somewhere every Friday and Saturday of the month. Highlights include Harvard Square (touristy as it is), Davis Square, and also some out-of-the-way delights like Union Square. Full of coffeeshops, bookstores, and vegan food, they are a little expensive to live in (especially Cambridge), but nice places to spend an afternoon.
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All the queer women who live in JP seem to know each other and, because they live so far away from the rest of the city, are exclusively friends with other queer people from JP.Ĭambridge & Somerville is where it’s at for hip, androgynous queers who like wearing ambitious scarves, as well as young marrieds and every twentysomething who picks up their CSA share on their fixed-gear bike. Everyone sits out on the porch all the time hanging out with each other and strangers just walk by and join in. Everyone who lives in JP loves it but, the major downside is that it’s far away from everything else in the city. Jamaica Plain, or JP as the cool kids call it, is basically Boston’s lesbian stronghold. As that is the case, the South End is also home to some of the best restaurants and small art studios in the whole city. Although the area maintained its gay flavor, it tends to be inhabited by wealthy middle aged gays and their artist significant others. At some point it became wicked gentrified by gays (actually, mostly gay men) in the 1980s, and is now some of the most expensive property in Boston. The South End is made up largely of beautiful red brick bowfront apartment buildings built in the mid-19th century. The South End is Boston’s most well known gay neighborhood. Lizz used to bike to work in Cambridge every day until one day she almost got hit by one of those previously mentioned above ground Ts.
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You can bike almost anywhere in Boston in about 20 minutes. So here’s the thing: you’re going to want a bike. Except that Boston has the most expensive cabs ever. That’s okay though because you can just take a cab. The subway, or the T, is awesome and also kind of sucks. On the other hand, you can ride the MBTA system of subways and buses. While it’s not deadlocked New York City, driving can be slow and tedious.