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Salt Lake loses another gay bar with the closure of Club Verse.
My friend Bucket and I were baby gays and really wanted to go to the bar but were terrified for a few reasons—mainly because we weren't sure that our fake IDs would pass muster there.
Many decades ago, there was a tiny little women's bar located under a viaduct just about where The Gateway stands today. My friend Bucket and I were baby gays and really wanted to go to the bar but were terrified for a few reasons—mainly because we weren't sure that our fake IDs would pass muster there.
We were hanging out at the old Sun Tavern, which used to be at the northwest corner of where the Delta Center now stands, because our IDs did pass muster there.
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