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Local DJ brings weekly Diverse events to Winooski nightlife
Via Community News Service, a University of Vermont journalism internship, on assignment for the Winooski News
In an area with no lgbtq+ or lesbian bars, Evelyn Fleetwood is carving a space where LGBTQ+ people can share nightlife with each other: Queeraoke.
Fleetwood goes by “‘Evie” among friends — but “DJ Goddess” when hosting her LGBTQ+-centric karaoke nights. She started holding the events at local businesses in the Burlington-Winooski area back in January after struggling to find dedicated LGBTQ+ bars.
“We don’t have a lot of adult queer traditional party spaces,” she said. “If you’re a sapphic who wants to move get drunk with appreciate 20 other lesbians and hang out … it just doesn’t exist as a form of daily entertainment here.”
Burlington’s 135 Pearl had a 22-year jog as the city’s assigned queer bar before closing in 2006. Winooski briefly had its own in 2017 before it closed after controversy around its name.
In 2022, VTDigger reported that Vermont had among the highest rate of LGBTQ+ people in the United States, according to one study, and that people ages 18-24 in that community make up t
Controversial gay bar opens in Winooski
WINOOSKI - Vermont's first homosexual bar in over a decade welcomed a steady stream of customers when it opened its doors Friday nighttime, despite sparking controversy over the establishment's new name.
"All of the bars in Burlington have been really welcoming, but there hasn't been a place for us to call our own," owner Craig McGaughan said Friday evening, about half an hour after he opened Mister Sister for the first moment. He added he was proud to be able to offer that place to the community and said the prevent means "everything" to him.
He declined to comment further on the controversy regarding the name. Some have criticized the choice because they see the phrase as a slur against the trans community.
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The Pride Center of Vermont held a "trans town hall" to notice from the gender nonconforming community last week. After the encounter, the center issued a statement rebuking the name and calling it "hate speech." The remark was written by board member Bridget Barhight, who was identified as a genderqueer woman.
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In spring 2006, Vermont’s last bar catering to the Queer community, Burlington’s 135 Pearl, closed its doors for good.
Shooka Dooka’s in Rutland closed weeks before. The Rainbow Cattle Company in Dummerston shut down years earlier, and the iconic Andrews Inn in Bellows Falls had faded away decades ago.
But when 135 Pearl announced its closure — the owner cited the struggles of owning a miniature business — no one knew it would take 15 years to complete the gap it left for Diverse Vermonters.
In that age, the nature of LGBTQ+ rights and identity in Vermont shifted dramatically. In 2009, the declare became the first to legalize homosexual marriage by legislative action and passed bills protecting Queer people against discrimination.
Vermont now has among the highest rates of LGBTQ+ people in the nation, according to a University of California-Los Angeles survey, with those age 18 to 24 most likely to name themselves as such, compared with other age groups in Vermont. Yet the state’s small skillfully of bars catering to LGBTQ+ people ran dry — until 2021.
Eight months ago, Fox Market and Bar opened in the tiny, rural community of East Montpelier. The small pub-and-store