This doesn't really help with the notion that The Stranger only covers stories a block or less from their HQs.

@1

It's a bit of an advertorial. If it addressed the importance of the bar to the community, or the effect on workers if it closes, then it would be more of a journalistic exercise.

Thanks Christopher. As the source of the "email" quote above...when I visited tonight and inquired, I only got confirmation that it's closing.

More of Gay Seattle shuttered.....

@1/2: Concern trolling at its finest. Neither care much about the importance of Purr and other venues beyond an excuse to click tongues.

@4: I'm happy Dane from Rebar (and whatever other management) is dipping their toes into Pioneer Square in case we lose that lease to developers. So much is just getting lost without the capacity to resettle beyond. I imagine everything north is too pricy, and even Beacon Hill might not work for these venues... I wonder where any new nightlife may end up planting itself.

I work with a ridiculous young man who tells me that gay bars are "anachronistic enforcers of community self-hatred and internalized homophobia that encourage LGBTQ(etc) people to slide into lives of addiction and self-medicating" (I had to write it all down because he's very wordy). And you don't want to get him started on drag.

He's a real fun person to be around.

1/2 the Stranger is well aware of this long-running joke and even has a tag for it "2 Block Radius" I'm surprised Christopher didn't use it

I would like to see a Callan Berry illustration of this story. With people standing and blinking. And receiving a Purr business card to close it out.

@7 I know the type..gay or straight... they need to be smacked up side the head...told to sit down , shut up... let me tell you how it was😲

Barbie is solid cool. I wish her all the good lucks.

Sucks for Barbie, Manray gets gentrified out of existence and now this

She could always reopen someplace less expensive - like Yakima. I would hate to see what those last week in business drink prices will be during pride.

@7: I suggest taking him to Purrr for an after-work cocktail.

@5

Really? Hmm. Well, whatever. I think I have generally thought stinkbug was pretty cool, so I am happy to be accused of trolling along with him/her/them.

@15: Don't feed the trolls.

I think if we are going to have a really vibrant nightlife (that isn't exclusively for the rich Amazonians or other techies) I'd suggest a few of these establishments get together and find a specific place to land at. Keep the reopened venues close together so it can create a vibrant area of excitement and rebuild. Sadly, the affordable places are going to be north in North City, or Shoreline or south in Burien (if you're lucky) or Tukwila or Kent.

White Center is where it's going to be at in the future.

For gay nightlife, I mean. Not necessarily Purr moving there.

@18 - I thought it was Burien... Did I receive the wrong memo again? dammit!

@18 - They're right next door to each other so it's an easy mistake.

Er, that should be @20

I doubt it will be replaced by another gay bar or gay establishment. Probably some sort of overpriced snooty restaurant that caters to millennials and the latest foodie craze. Pike Pine and the Hill are becoming a playground for the people who can afford the apartment rents and that is pretty much Amazon employees and tech workers. The people and businesses that made the hill so cool are being forced out by rents that go up like a comcast bill. Meanwhile your paycheck if you work in an office or for govt, medical care etc is not rising so fast.