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New Orleans, Louisiana
Laid-back French Quarter dive bar (formerly Double Play).
The Crossing is an easygoing gay tavern at 439 Dauphine in the French Quarter, on the site of the long-running Double Play. It trades on being a neighborhood corner bar rather than a nightclub—steampunk-leaning decor, a regular daytime crowd, and bar food that makes it a place locals start the night rather than end it. The week has a rhythm: trivia on Tuesdays, RuPaul's Drag Race watch parties on Fridays, and Saints games over the weekend pulling the room together. It runs quieter and earlier than the dance clubs a few blocks over on Bourbon, which is the point—it's where you go off the Bourbon Street circuit for a drink with people who actually live here. Affordable, unpretentious, and easy to fall into for an afternoon.
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