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After Hours Cinema Club Waterside Mall SW (4th and I St. 1/5/96 MW After Dark 2001 Wisconsin Ave NW 1/1/74 5-74 MW After Dark 5878 Washington Blvd Arlington Club at the Italia Bella restaurant, lasted 3 weeks, run by Annette Post & JoAnne Bawiec Taken over by Giuseppe Motta, owner of the restaurant and run as the 5878 Club. Frequent host of Blowoff event for the bear community. Beginning in September 1997 (until ?) hosted Millennium, a Saturday night dance party. 11-91 7-93 W 801 Club 801 Pennsylvania Ave SE Replaced the Blue Penguin 6-95 ? MW 808 King St/French Quarter Café 808 King St, Alexandria Alexandria's first gay club since the Topkopi bathhouse, complaint about nude mural led to painted on pants with Glasgow (complainant) on label, Glasgow sued but the suit was dismissed 5/16/91 1993 M 915 Health Club 915 12th St NW 4/1/76 ? M 930 Club 930 F St NW Straight music venue with gay evenings 1980 12/31/95 MW 9:30 Club 815 V St. 1966 1973 M 5878 Club 5878 Washington Blvd Arlington First gay bar in Arlington, women's bar continued after a false start (see AfterDark) added Latina/o night on Saturdays in July 1992. SE A leather/levi disco 4/1/82 1984 M 1409 Playbill Café 1409 14th St NW Popular restaurant, featuring drag bingo and performance art 1998 MW 17th St Bar & Grill 1615 Rhode Island Ave NW Popular Sunday brunch, in Governor's House Hotel 1990 MW 1832 House 1832 Columbia Rd NW Popular Adams Morgan club in the early 70s chicken wire on the balcony 'screened' standing drinkers. of Washington, DC's LGBT community (1920 to the present) Club Address Notes Opened Closed Gender Ethnicity Important community sites that were not commercial clubs or bars are in italics. We would have loved nothing more than to remain in operation for another decade if we had been given the chance.The Rainbow History Project: PLACES & SPACES - clubs, bars, community centers, etc. Our landlord sold the building to a new entity who terminated Town's lease and we were forced out so that the location could be developed into apartments. (Because there seems to be some confusion, we would like to state unequivocally that Town did not in any way choose to close. In addition, we combined the hottest current lighting and special effects that, when added to our enormous video installation, provided spectacular visual excitement all night. Your club experience at Town consisted of multiple performance oriented productions.Extensive drag shows that featured big production numbers, comedy sketches and amazing outfits…Our own in house dance troupe performing multiple choreographed routines…The Friday night go-go boys…Surprise performance artists.and nationally recognized performers and djs. There were two floors, multiple rooms, multiple outside smoking areas, an amazing video installation, state of the art LED lighting, and multiple dancefloors and seating areas. It was a combination of a cabaret performance space, a plush lounge, a massive outdoor patio, and a high energy danceclub. Town Danceboutique opened on November 17th, 2007 and was the largest gay danceclub in Washington, D.C. Town Danceboutique - DC's Largest Gay Nightclub