Blackstones used to be Portlands dark, default leather bar - a thing of mystery and. Styxx closed in 2016, in part due to dating apps, but also changing attitudes that made the city’s nightlife more welcoming and comfortable to LGBTQ+ people. Find the best bars for cocktailsFrom bustling London to poolside in Dubai, a city’s best bars offer innovative cocktails in truly unique settings: sipping a pisco- and rosemary-infused champagne. BLACKSTONES: Portlands oldest, only, & evolving gay bar. Only gay bar in Portland ME closing after three decades (Original post) left-of-center2012: Oct 2016: OP: I think this is sad. The Underground later became Styxx, a popular dance club.
The Underground Nightclub located on Spring Street in Portland was a safe place for LGBTQ+ people to socialize starting in the 1980s-the decade when Charlie Howard, a gay man living in Bangor, was thrown off a bridge and killed by three teens.
