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(Image: Queer/Bar)

In October 2017, Queer/Bar opened on 11th Ave to make a stand for queer nightlife and culture in Pike/Pine. Then the next five years happened.

Now, the bar and performance venue is ready to mark five years on Capitol Hill and continue its climb to be a center of LGBTQIA+ good times in Seattle. It will do so at the center of a new Capitol Hill business family made up of some familiar old but valued faces including The Cuff, Elliott Bay, and, now, Oddfellows.

“It’s amazing. Queer/Bar is turning this awesome corner,” owner Joey Burgess tells CHS. “We just didn’t stop working through the pandemic. Kept our core crew. We’ve been kind of dreaming of this the whole way through the pandemic.”

Queer/Bar at five is finally taking its full shape with performances and events that keep the club “activated every night of the week” and “just makes the venue feel alive,” Burgess said. Continue reading →