The menu includes “wood pellets” (olives in cheese breading served with marinara) and a mashed potato bar. Logs are omnipresent: logs wrapped around the cords of Edison bulbs, logs chained to walls, log benches, log stools, log pictures, etc. This White Center gay bar is lumberjack-themed.
Monday is trivia night, Wednesday is lesbian night, Thursday is karaoke, Friday and Saturday there are DJs, and Sunday is oriented around whatever game is on TV. West Seattle is where gay folks go to retire, and this laid-back bar epitomizes the neighborhood's laid-back spirit. They have pool, darts, Seahawks parties, and karaoke on Wednesdays. This is North Seattle’s gay bar-the closest gay bar to the University of Washington, the Ballard Locks, or Northgate. They have underwear parties on Saturdays, a urinal trough, video projections, an outdoor patio with a string of Christmas lights overhead, and screamingly fun parties. There are several different areas to hang out in, which makes hiding from your ex much easier. Seattle Men in Leather meet at the Cuff, and lots of gay sports teams have their social functions there. Other nights, the dancing starts at 10 p.m., and on Wednesdays and Thursdays, there's no cover.Ī leather bar that’s frequently crowded with kinksters, jocks, pups, poz socials, and subs willing to shine your shoes, it also has a large outdoor patio. Three floors of gay bar with dancing up top, R Place also hosts live drag shows, RuPaul's Drag Race viewing parties, and karaoke (on Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays at 9 p.m.). But with more than 30 years under its belt-the place is older than most of its clientele-Neighbours still hosts plenty of queer nights. Once a stalwart testament to enduring gayness, Neighbours these days welcomes more and more bachelorette parties. You can learn more at is where the dancing happens. The Comeback is planned to open before the end of the year at 1950 1st Ave. “For what we do, it’s perfect,” Lovelady said. The hope is for The Comeback to be ready for action by December. “They wanted to help rebuild the community.” “The bank saw the 20 year history,” Lovelady said. Lovelady said he is also thankful that lenders got behind The Comeback and his 20 years of nightlife experience. Big openings like Supernova are also exciting signs of growth, he says, in a neighborhood that actively recruited the planned gay dance club business through the SODO Business Improvement Area organization. SoDo, meanwhile, represents an exciting “hub” for Lovelady in an area he believes is easily accessed from points across the city and around the greater Seattle area. Versatility will be key with a venue that can transition from go go dancer club with a 40-foot stage to a Sunday morning Seahawks party. “Big dreamer, big thinker” architect and former mayoral candidate Andrew Grant Houston is handling design of the new venue, Lovelady tells CHS.
The new space, formerly the Eden Seattle venue, will have about twice as much room for dancing and drinking, plus new features like a patio, Lovelady says.Įden Seattle’s layout shows plenty of space to work with With R Place’s ownership likely ready to move on to new chapters, Lovelady’s new project represents the heart and soul of the old joint moved to new turf with room for bigger dreams. Neighborhood tech firm Add3 has been eyeing a deal for a new headquarters, and space for new club in the building, the 1917-built Bothell Motors garage at E Pine and Boylston where R Place made its home under longtime owners Richard Elander and Steve Timmons.
“I wanted a place where we could be as noisy as we want,” Lovelady tells CHS.Īfter more than 30 years of partying and the occasional noise complaint, R Place lost its Capitol Hill lease during the pandemic and was cleared out of its decades of nightlife memories. The Comeback will be a new LGBTQIA+ club with dancing, performances, and good times on 1st Ave south of the stadiums in the industrial mix of commerce, clubs, and nightlife growing in the city’s SoDo neighborhood. Lovelady is ready to continue that spirit - off the Hill. Floyd Lovelady didn’t own R Place but he made the E Pine at Boylston what it was through decades of Capitol Hill queer nightlife.