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Washington D.C., Washington D.C.
DC's Black-owned LGBTQ+ cocktail lounge on 14th Street.
DC's only Black-owned LGBTQ+ lounge, opened in December 2023 just north of the historic U Street corridor on 14th Street NW. Owners Brandon Burke and Shaun Mykals built it out of the energy of Thursday Bliss, the open-mic night they ran for more than a decade, and the room carries that intent: photos of Black queer icons — Bayard Rustin, James Baldwin, Marsha P. Johnson — line the staircase, and queer artists and allies are invited to the stage. Expect hip-hop and R&B rather than circuit-club anthems, plus cocktails, food, and hookah, and generally no cover. It fills a specific gap in DC nightlife as a space centered on the Black queer community, and it's an easy anchor for a night on the 14th-and-U corridor — more lounge-and-conversation than dance floor, especially earlier in the evening before the weekend crowd builds.
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