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Gym Sportsbar and Grill is getting new owners and investors, building on the success of the gay sports bar in West Hollywood.

Gym Sportsbar is closing its West Hollywood location after a nearly 11-year run because of the pandemic.

The MLS player frequented a D.C. gay bar and was out to teammates in two cities.

Outsports Pride will kick off at Boxers in Hell’s Kitchen, June 21.

It’s not that kind of Eagle.

At least 20 cities in America now have sports bars catering to the LGBT community.

Boxers lawsuit claims mistreatment for gay clientele.

The gay sports bar Boxers in New York City has received approval for a liquor license at a second Hell’s Kitchen location, a year after an earlier attempt ran into trouble. The website DNAinfo reports that this new location has been found more acceptable: Community Board 4’s liquor license committee gave the OK to Boxers’ […]

Gay sports bars have proliferated in recent years, but there was one place devoid of one — San Francisco, the birthplace of the Gay Games and gay softball. Even Kansas City has had one before San Francisco. That will all change this fall with the opening of Hi Tops,whose slogan is “Cold Pitchers, Hot Catchers.” […]

The Classical is the latest to tackle the rise of gay sports bars across the U.S. Titled, ‘Where Hot Wings are Sassy,’ it’s both a tongue-in-cheek and solid examination of the growing phenomenon. Alyssa Rosenberg of Think Progress pointed out one great piece of the article about how gay athletes are marginalized by many people […]

Bloomberg has an article today about the proliferation of gay sports bars, which the publication attributes to an increase in disposable income. In the past few years, almost a dozen sports bars catering to a gay clientele have opened around the country, including Crew in Chicago, Fritz in Boston and GYM Sportsbar in Los Angeles […]

Some people treat sports like a religion. Soon, New York sports fans may get to watch football next to a house of worship. Next to the church at 20th St. & Sixth Ave., where the debauchery of Limelight once ruled the roost, a location will soon house Chelsea’s second gay sports bar, Boxers NYC. This […]

Gym Sportsbar in West Hollywood opened Friday night to a packed house: When the doors opened to the general public at 9pm, the bar was already at capacity. The bar itself has a very different feel from the New York establishment: It’s newer and sleaker; Instead of the brick of New York, it features a […]