Paring in the parking garages is very cheap and reliable during the day and still better than most people waving signs around for you to park elsewhere. If you go north a bit you'll see interesting architecture - the houses are 100 years old and squished together. And if you just walk around there's something for everyone.
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Centro Ybor has a nice movie theater and a huge video game place. The bunker is my favorite coffee shop, La Terrazza is probably the most authentic Italian restaurant I've been to outside of italy and they are very nice, La France is a really interesting offbeat clothes store that's actually been there since the 70s. If you're young enough to really love the energy of bars and nightclubs this is one big mass of people meandering around between all that starting maybe as early as 9. It is a nice place to walk around during the day and evening. So it's nice to have but it's not exactly vibrant culture here so much as the bones of vibrant culture to make a bunch of bars and restaurants people will spend money on. The bar gay a wide variety of specialty beer and some sinister m4m brewed up m4m the friendly bartenders. Expert Tips Open to all, tampa fine dive bar serves both gay and gay clientele who are looking to do some serious drinking. Now on the slowest night of the week it's a festival of lights with 100 bars and fancy restaurants. Tampas Reservoir Bar located in historic Cruising City bills itself as the the finest hole in the wall in town. In high school I can remember walking down here and there was a gay bar, I think another bar, and just darkness. For whatever reason, fancy gay dance clubs on Capitol Hill just seem to struggle (while stalwart, endearingly seedy gay dance clubs places like R-Place and Neighbours plug on unfazed).
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In 1990 this place was more or less abandoned and I don't know if it was racism or reality but full of warnings about crime. Their huge club buildings built like banks are still here. Q is a beautiful space, but it's a space that seems increasingly troubled.100 years ago it was where they rolled cigars and it had a rich culture of diverse immigrant clubs. The appeal of Q should not have changed because we are still a beautiful space." Rampl says the other fight mentioned in the video "was an altercation, but not a full fight. For whatever reason, fancy gay dance clubs on Capitol Hill just seem to struggle (while stalwart, endearingly seedy gay dance clubs places like R-Place and Neighbours plug on unfazed).
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It's possible that the market just doesn't support additional gay dance clubs in Capitol Hill, so owners need a broader clientele to stay afloat.
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And what makes a gay bar a gay bar is its promotion and programming, not just the people who show up-and the programming and marketing of Q was unmistakably gay. While Rampl insists Q was never a gay bar-even though gays were always welcome-the programming and marketing has unquestionably taken a turn to the het. As Seattle Gay Scene recently wrote: "Q has veered from themes and nights obviously programmed for the LGBTQ community, when the club first opened, to a current line-up of events that seem to steer away from any queer content." But in the last year, Kauer has left, Trouble Disco is out, the gay co-owner is out, the go-go boys are gone, and Q's Facebook page doesn't present anything remotely gay-looking. The creative director was Kevin Kauer, a well-known gay event promoter behind nights such Dick Slap and the producer of scads of drag shows, and Q was also home to the very gay Trouble Disco. There were go-go boys but no go-go girls. The Stranger reported it had a bathroom designated for drag queens. Capitol Hill Seattle reported Q's opening as a "gay" dance club. "We catered to everyone in Seattle and on Capitol Hill." Nothing has changed, he said. "We catered to the gay crowd and straight crowd," he said. He insisted the Q was never supposed to be a gay bar, per se.
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I called Q owner Andy Rampl, who remains in charge after gay co-owner Scott Smith was bought out.