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The site of so much gay history in Boston is pretty boring from the outside, just a squat gray building that stretches a whole block on Boylston near Fenway Park. It was a sex-positive spot in a (still) puritanical city, with loud music and stiff drinks.

The community was wrestling with addiction and was consumed by fear of HIV/AIDS. And if you’re talking about wanting there to be a gay bar, who’s the primary audience for that?”

Whynot went on to say, “A group called LGBTQ Nightlife Events [hosts] a lot of queer events and I know that they’re looking to try and open an LGBTQ space in Boston.”

LGBTQ Nightlife Events is a Boston-based organization dedicated to hosting various LGBTQ-centric events around the city.

“The very people who stayed behind in Boston in the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, who made it really become more of a world-class city, are the ones who are being thrown out,” Krone says. Above it sat Ramrod, the leather and Levis gay bar. “I always wanted community in high school. Axis spun out in 2007. Both spots had that kind of slightly dingy, lived-in feel of a well-loved gay hangout, the cigarette smell that seemed to hang in the air long after Boston banned smoking indoors, the dim corners here and there for making out.

Within the development, there will be 477 residential housing units and a ground-floor retail podium. “A lot of LGBT spaces or gay bars are focused on gay men,” said Whynot. They first went to Machine with a group of friends they met during an orientation event. “The line would've been all the way down the block,” he says. Now, the site of the Safari Club is a luxury apartment building.

“I was only marginally upset when it shut down, mainly because I had met Theresa there. “That was my moment of like, ‘wow, I fit in here. “So, when we talk about community, who are we talking about? They are best known for events such as Sapphic Nights, a bi-monthly event dedicated to sapphic-identifying people, and Issa Vibe, a night dedicated to queer and trans people of color.

In the caption of an Instagram post from the organization, co-founder Thais Rocha wrote that the mission is to “open Boston’s first Queer Bar for women and non-binary LGBTQ+ community members who feel like we have no place.” 

On January 8, LGBTQ Nightlife Events shared the name of their new space, Dani’s Queer Bar.

As the caption of the Instagram post stated, details will be announced at the next Sapphic Nights event on January 28. The Fens were home to hookups but also a number of murders and assaults, including a guy who’d troll the area and beat men with a hammer. It doesn’t always have to be nightlife as a way to be active in the community.”

Ezpinoza echoed this sentiment.

The owners of Machine and Ramrod — who didn’t want to comment for this story — own a business, not a home, and nightlife places aren’t a cash cow. Doors officially closed on March 14, just days before Gov. Charlie Baker’s shutdown order, though few people even knew it was the last night.