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Good evening Columbus Underground readers,
how are things?
I was just passing along some news I had read earlier on today on a friend of mine's blog : Woof's, a long-running Columbus gay "bear bar", was mentioned as closing down soon.
There have alas been rumors of this happening before. A September 2008 blog entry on their website makes mention of an incorrect-at-the-time belief they would be closing. As a sign that they are unfortunately going away, I visited their website at 11:49 am ("thanks, Google's tracking system!"). By 2 or 3 pm the entire site was offline. (e.g. deleted, as opposed to 'server not connecting' etc).
For a limited time, one can see the Google-archived entry in question (and all entries, up to their most-recent October 2008 one) here :
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:fSex2qCBjVAJ:www.woofscolumbus.com/news/
Although not involved in the 'bear community' in town myself, a friend who more so is told me a history of the place : he remembers it being in Merion Village (e.g. "the area south of German Village") for a while, then moving to Bexley, then to its final location on the east side (vaguely near the airport and next to, if memory serves me correctly, a "Mr. Hero's" restaurant).
While a number of businesses, gay-themed or no (An Open Book, The Coffee Table coffee shop, Eagle dance bar, The Full Monty, Millenium bar) have alas been disappearing in recent years, there have been some nice new additions as well (Gingham Bakery - just now opening!, Q Bar, heck, a second Zen Cha downtown). We can have a delicate balance of gay bars and places to purchase pastries. Dance off the cupcakes! Additional witty comments inserted here.
Hopefully there shall be another 'bear bar' (or 'bear night') in town for future fun.
Take care,
* Geoff
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