Westport ct gay bar

June is Gay Pride Month. And not just any gay bar. But the oldest continually operating gay bar in the country. Today the Brook Cafe has been replaced Patio. Almost exactly 10 years ago — on June 10, — I wrote this:. The gay bar was The Brook. It sat on the Post Road near the Exit 18 connector — directly across from the state police barracks.

At 71 years old, the Cedar Brook has been called the oldest continually operating gay bar in the United States.

06880: Gay Bar Bites the Dust

For 7 decades, every gay boy growing up in Westport has told the same story. Knowing there was a gay bar right down the street created both tremendous excitement there are people like me! Wondering who — and what — lurked behind those ramshackle walls consumed gay teenagers.

Straight kids wondered too. One summer in the s, a college friend visited. To westport off my town, I decided to take her to every bar from the Norwalk line to Fairfield. Note to young readers: Yes, Westport had many bars. The world was a different place then. These trees — at the intersection of aptly named Cedar Road and the Post Road — were cut down to make way for Patio.

By the time we made it to the Brook, it was 1 a. The place was packed. The music was loud; the dance floor looked amazing. This was my chance to finally get inside! Like an aging drag queen, the Cedar Brook is now past its prime. Crowds are down; even the traditionally huge Wednesday-before-Thanksgiving party — when newly out college guys discovered with glee who else had recently come out — lost its luster in recent years.

Posted in Friday FlashbackLocal business. Tagged Brook CafeCedar Brook cafe. The Brook — aka as the Brook Cafe, and the Cedar Brook — was said to be the oldest continually operating gay bar in America, when it closed 6 years ago. It was located on the Post Road near the Sherwood Island Connector — right across bar what were then state police barracks.

You know — directly oppposite the Brook. Click here.