Over the past fifteen years, the number of bars for LGBTQ+ people has decreased by 37%. The number of bars that primarily serve LGBTQ+ people of color has fallen by 60%. During the pandemic, this disparity has gotten even worse. Feel free to tag your favorite QTPOC bars for us to protect and support in the comments. . For more on Nob Hill and DC’s Black queer spaces, see: . Kwame A. Holmes, “Chocolate to Rainbow City: The Dialectics of Black and Gay Community Formation in Postwar Washington, D.C., 1946-1978.” (PhD dissertation, available online). . National Parks Service Historic American Buildings Survey, “Nob Hill.” . Justin Moyer, Washington Citypaper, “On The Hill.” . Sean Bugg, Metro Weekly, “Closed for Business.” . Julie Compton, “Black-owned gay bars are dwindling. Can they survive Covid?” NBC News.

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