 The bar's exterior in 2018 | |
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| Address | 1315 East Madison Street |
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| Location | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 47°36′48″N122°18′54″W / 47.613442°N 122.314883°W |
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| madisonpub | |
Madison Pub is a gay bar in Seattle, Washington, United States.
| The bar's exterior in 2018 | |
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| Address | 1315 East Madison Street |
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| Location | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 47°36′48″N122°18′54″W / 47.613442°N 122.314883°W |
| Website | |
| madisonpub | |
Madison Pub is a gay bar in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Madison Pub is a gay sports bar located at 1315 East Madison Street in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. [1] The Stranger has said the pub is "rumored to be the friendliest and least stressful gay bar on all of Capitol Hill", with loyal clientele. [2] The newspaper has also described the venue as a "popular, crowded, and unpretentious" sports bar "for men who like men". The bar offers darts, pinball, pool, pull-tabs, trivia, and video games. [3] [4]
Chet Harold opened the bar in May 1986. Madison Pub did not operate as a gay bar until July 1986. Michael Lull owned the bar starting in 1995, [5] and Roland Hyre became the bar's third owner on December 31, 2010. The pub has sponsored local basketball, rugby, softball, tennis, and volleyball teams. [6]
In the 2009 ricin incident, Madison Pub was one of eleven Seattle gay bars that received letters threatening to poison patrons with ricin; the bar was the only one to not participate in a pub crawl organized in defiance of the threat. [7] [8] [9]
Madison Pub ranked number 38 on NewNowNext.com's (Logo TV) 2018 list of the 50 most popular gay bars in the U.S. [4]
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Recorded history of the LGBT community in Seattle begins with the Washington Sodomy Law of 1893. In the 1920s and 1930s there were several establishments in Seattle which were open to homosexuals. The Double Header, opened in 1934, may have been the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the United States until it closed in December 2015. On 19 November 1958, an injunction instructed the city police not to question customers of gay bars unless there was a "good cause" in connection with an actual investigation. In the 1960s, Seattle came to be seen as providing an accepting environment, and an increasing number of gay and lesbians were drawn to the city. In 1967 University of Washington's Professor Nick Heer founded the Dorian Society, the first group in Seattle to support gay rights.
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