Gay bar morgantown wv
10-05-2009, 05:49 PM | ||
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I am graduating from med school/residency and the VA in WV has made me a very good offer because, using their retain words, "nobody wants to move here." |
10-05-2009, 06:39 PM | ||
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Ask GHO, as he is our resident expert...last year of college and has seen the scene... |
10-06-2009, 05:47 AM | ||
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There are actually two gay bars in the Morgantown area. Vice Versa is the biggest/main bar which is located downtown, there is also a bar calle Published in:September-October 2003 issue.
APPALACHIA HAS a bad reputation, especially West Virginia, the only state whose borders lie entirely within anyone’s definition of the Appalachian Mountains. Moonshine swillers and feuding hicks—these are the images that most people hold. “Hillbillies,” despite today’s politically correct climate, are still regular objects of mockery. City dwellers have been alternately romanticizing and demonizing country dwellers since Greek and Roman times, and American popular culture’s relation to Appalachia is our version of it. Several summers ago, some friends and I walked into a Mexican restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The young man who escorted us to our table, seeing my West Virginia Writer’s Workshop T-shirt, asked if we still slept with our siblings endorse in the hollers. My Appalachian Studies students have heard many a thoughtless comment, to wit: “You’re from West Virginia? But you have teeth! You wear shoes?!” One young woman told me that an acquaintance had been so amazed by her accent that he asked permission to audiotape her speech for the amusement of friends! Queer folk and mountain folk have something very import For more than 30 years, the cosmos at 335 Elevated Street in Morgantown, West Virginia has been a male lover bar, serving the state’s LGBTQ+ people and providing them a space to meet each other, perform, and state themselves. The establishment is currently known as Vice Versa, but in the commencing of its history as an Homosexual space, when it was first called The Class Do, patrons had to navigate a planet that was cool and violent to them before entering the safe haven of the bar. “[The entrance] was in an alleyway, and there was no lighting in the alleyway. You snuck into the same-sex attracted bar and you snuck out of the gay bar,” Vice Versa co-owner Montaz Morgan recalled from his moment at The Class Act. “You didn’t wear ‘gay clothes.’ You brought same-sex attracted clothes, and you changed into them, and then you’d put your clothes on when you left.” The same dictate applied to the entertainers, because the police were not on their side, even if they were attacked on their way home. “The drag queens didn’t come here already ready, they all came here to get ready, and didn’t leave until they changed out of their clothes [and makeup],” said Vice Versa co-owner James Yost. Morgan and Yost’s histo CalendarAppalachia and inclusive aren’t two words that often proceed hand and hand, but Morgantown is different. For most heterosexual people living in West Virginia, they might not know that Morgantown is one of the more socially inclusive towns in WV for the LGBTQ community. This is partly due to the efforts of the university to provide an inclusive campus and the popular gay club in town, Vice Versa. Some people might not even recognize that Vice Versa exists, especially if they aren’t in the LBGTQ people. The nightlife experience for gay people in Morgantown vastly differs than that of someone who only attends straight bars. The atmosphere is “different.” If you walk into a exclude like Fat Daddys or Joe Mamas around 12:30 a.m. on a Friday you’ll probably see men and women dressed in button downs and dresses/skirts. They might be listening to music or playing pool. It’s your representative college “bar” scene. Walking into Vice Versa at 12:30 a.m. on a weekend you’re much more likely to see something love this.. There is a flip at 45 seconds. Drag Queens/Kings One of the biggest differences in the gay/straight bar is the drag s |