Momentum is picking up for Dani’s Queer Bar — a potential new LGBTQ venue geared toward lesbians and nonbinary people that its creators are planning to open soon on Boylston Street in Boston’s Back Bay.
On April 8, Sapphic Nights is hosting a fundraiser at Citizen’s House of Blues Boston to raise support for both Dani’s and Trans Resistance MA.
Reports UniversalHub.com:
The Simmons Voice reports that LGBTQ Nightlife Events, which has been running queer nights at local clubs over the last few years, is getting ready to settle down with a permanent home on Boylston Street in the Back Bay – in a town that has mostly seen gay and queer venues disappear over the past decade.
Dani’s Queer Bar, which would be Boston’s “first queer bar for women and non-binary LGBTQ+ community members who feel like we have no place,” lists an address of 907 Boylston St. – the former home of the Pour House – in paperwork on file at the Secretary of State’s office.
The Pour House and neighboring bars along that stretch of Boylston closed as the pandemic erupted in 2020.
Landlord Charles Talanian, who was a part owner of the Pour House, purchased its liquor license through its bankruptcy proceedings.
Talanian originally planned to lease the space and the liquor license to a group headed by a former Pour House manager, but that deal fell through.
LGBTQ Nightlife Events co-founder Thais Rocha told the Voice she hopes to open the new bar, which would be the 28th lesbian bar in the US, this month. However, she has yet to appear before the licensing board for permission to either buy Talanian’s license or for approval of a management agreement under which he would retain the license, but let her use it. The new license would also need approval of the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission.
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