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Covid-19 was already challenging enough for the business. Find the best gay bars and gay-popular nightclubs in Seattle, Washington. The Lumber Yard Bar has been a passion project for Nathan Adams and Michale Farrar and has provided a safe gathering space for the LGBTQIA+ community since opening in 2017. I spent the night going back and forth between Lumber Yard and The Swallow and noticed many other patrons doing the same. By contributing to Lifelong, you are playing an active role in helping us reach the last 10% of individuals who are undiagnosed and without treatment. At the Lumber Yard, I met two men who told me they are producing the first ever White Center Pride this June. With the help of local bars like Madison Pub, we are bringing back Jars in Bars for the holiday season.
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We have always been an organization who stands in the gap for the most marginalized communities, and we will continue to do so with the goal of reaching health equity for all the clients we serve. Request menu Call Timetable Make a reservation Order online Add photo Reviews Share Map Ratings. For an individual living with HIV to reach their best possible health, they need access to stable housing and healthy food, and Lifelong is that safety net for them. The Lumber Yard Bar 9619 16th Ave SW - Seattle. While HIV is no longer a death sentence, the HIV community still needs critical support services. Now, it’s a different experience to get diagnosed with HIV than it was back then.” “It was like right when people got diagnosed with HIV, they would need to start making funeral arrangements, cash in life-insurance, and try to have a couple of good times. In the 80s and 90s, Roland explained how everyone in the LGBTQ community was trying to contribute in some way because people could see how needed it was. For a while, AIDS was more of an unfunded epidemic, so you needed all the help and money you could get,” said Roland. “It’s kind of gone through an evolution over the years. Roland, who became the owner of Madison Pub back in 2010, has worked at the bar since 1992. Madison Pub, in Capitol Hill, was one of the initial participants in this type of fundraising campaign. Lenny Larson started “Lenny’s Jars," as he decorated jars and placed them in grocery stores and bars around the city for Seattleites to donate any spare change. That’s when “Jars in Bars” was first created. During the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, there was no local or federal government support, so the community came together to provide donations to help people living with HIV. The Lumber Yard Bar might have been the first gay bar to open in White Center, but co-owner Nathan Adams is quick to point out it opened to serve a gay community that was already there.