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Club South 29 in Spartanburg, South Carolina is hard to find. It’s the only gay bar in the 10-county Upstate region of 1.4 million people. Like many other bars, they possess no sign, their website is defunct, their Twitter inactive, and only during frantic googling from a neighboring parking lot did I learn from a promoter’s website that it was a private membership club that required an application 24-hours beforehand.
The address is a number on U.S. Highway 29, but you can’t notice building numbers at 55 miles per hour, at evening or night.
GPS told me I’d passed it so I drove through connected parking lots of the pawn shops, muffler shops, and auto-body yards with my windows down, but all I could hear were crickets, frogs and zooming cars. If I didn’t recognize that Aja from RuPaul’s Drag Race was performing that night I would have assumed the club didn’t live. Only from the alleyways could I hear a distant thump-thump-thump over the other night sounds. On another move through
Pride in Spartanburg: Optimal Spots for LGBTQ Visitors
Pride in Spartanburg: Best Spots for LGBTQ Visitors
The Urban area of Spartanburg is a surprisingly progressive retreat in Upstate South Carolina. Since welcoming the first Upstate Pride March at Barnet Park in 2009, Spartanburg has flourished with local businesses and community organizations embracing the LGBTQ+ community.
Upstate Pride Week is celebrated each November, with additional Pride events hosted during National Pride Month in June. Checkout the Upstate Pride calendar for the most current happenings.
Crystal Pace, Pinnacle Hospitality Group Vice President of Sales and Marketing , said the most comforting thing for an LGBTQ visitor is to know when they’re in Spartanburg, they’ll be welcomed, and treated the same as anyone else.
We talked to a group of locals in-the-know to put together a list of the best spots for LGBTQ visitors in #OneSpartanburg during Pride Week and beyond.
Where to Caffeinate
Little River Coffee Bar offers a welcoming vibe on top of locally-roasted caffeinated concoctions. The
Somewhere down the line the idea gets passed along that everyone’s life is unique, down to the tiniest minutia, and at the same time we are all connected due to our similar life experiences.
1. Something’s amiss.
2. Oh crap, I like guys.
3. Okay, I’ll remain until college.
4. Awesome, residential arts-based high school!
5. First kiss
6.“It made you gay.”
7. Ex-gay Therapy
8. COLLEGE.
9. It’s hard when you hate move music.
10. I don’t know your name, but at least I finally got laid.
11. Guys older than you are just as bad as guys your age.
There we go. “Coming out and” in eleven steps, mine, maybe yours, but mine primarily.
I verb Spartanburg, though. It isn’t that there’s a lot to do here. Most people know Spartanburg because of its proximity to Asheville / Charlotte / Atlanta / Athens / Columbia. We’re down to -2 gay bars and we don’t even have a viable record store worth mentioning. BUT: this is where I grew up. Eighteen out of twenty-three years is a stretch worthy enough to deem Spartanburg “hometown.”
The sort of town that can produce a singularity (prove me
Spartanburg, South Carolina29303
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In a nutshell: Club Illusions features drag queens, kings, exotic dancers and is Spartanburgs only gay and lesbian night club...
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