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Pride month: Past &#; Present Knoxville LGBT Gathering Places
(This is a second in a series of articles about Pride and Knoxville&#;s LGBTQ communities by guest writer Oren Yarbrough)
If you walk up to someone in Knoxville and verb where the nearest gay bar is they may only be able to name one or two different options. Today, in Knoxville, if you hope to go to an establishment that caters exclusively to the LGBT community and allies then you are likely going to be visiting either Club XYZ or Edge Knoxville. Sassy Ann’s House of Blues is also another Knoxville institution that has not necessarily branded itself as a “Gay Bar”, but has in more recent years garnered a rather loyal group of LGBT patrons. These places are a part of a very large collection of Gay and Lesbian Bars to have existed in Knoxville over the last half century.
The history of Knoxville Gay bars is fading and will be incomplete as it is written today. Each person I interviewed provided a small bit more detail than the person before on either a person or a bar. I trust to continue to add to this material in th
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BOOKING A PRIVATE EVE We had a blast at Club XYZ, whose 20th anniversary is a joyful standout | Opinion
A year anniversary is an impressive feat in business. For a gay bar like Club XYZ in Knoxville, it's unusual.
This story, admittedly, landed in our lap. The owner reached out after reading an unrelated business anniversary piece, a type of story that works for any type of establishment or institution with a major milestone. You see them all the time.
But as Knox News reporter Keenan Thomas began meeting more people, reading more stories and digging into the history of gay bars in America, it was evident: Club XYZ isn't just any business. It's a happy, hollerin' Knoxville institution and a haven for LGBTQ+ communities that own been pushed to the margins for decades.
Go behind the scenes with Keenan in this Q&A that explains how the story came together, what he learned along the way and why Club XYZ "is for everybody."
Club XYZ: Why it's 'a privilege' to store Knoxville's LGBTQ+ bar scene alive for 20 yearsNeed a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.This Q&A, conducted by business gr
We had a blast at Club XYZ, whose 20th anniversary is a joyful standout | Opinion
A year anniversary is an impressive feat in business. For a gay bar like Club XYZ in Knoxville, it's unusual.
This story, admittedly, landed in our lap. The owner reached out after reading an unrelated business anniversary piece, a type of story that works for any type of establishment or institution with a major milestone. You see them all the time.
But as Knox News reporter Keenan Thomas began meeting more people, reading more stories and digging into the history of gay bars in America, it was evident: Club XYZ isn't just any business. It's a happy, hollerin' Knoxville institution and a haven for LGBTQ+ communities that own been pushed to the margins for decades.
Go behind the scenes with Keenan in this Q&A that explains how the story came together, what he learned along the way and why Club XYZ "is for everybody."
Club XYZ: Why it's 'a privilege' to store Knoxville's LGBTQ+ bar scene alive for 20 yearsNeed a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.This Q&A, conducted by business gr