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Cobalt Retires Its Shoe Fetish
Point taken: Cobalt spikes its high-heel ban. On a cold February night last year, Sara, a 24-year-old straight woman, slipped on the perfect shoes for winter bar-hopping: suede boots with a chunky...
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Ex-Cobalt Employee Weighs In On The Heel Ban
In this week's paper, I wrote a story about 17th Street gay bar Cobalt's recent overturning of its notorious high heel ban. Today, a former employee of Cobalt who asked not to be named, contacted me...
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Why Cobalt Is Better Than Ever
First, 17th street club Cobalt retired its high-heel ban. Now, it's doing away with another gay bar tradition: "Bad pop remixes from 1998 layered over a thump-thump beat." That's how Michael Adolphson...
View ArticleGay Man Arrested For Mocking Police Bigotry
Pepin Tuma, a 33-year-old gay man, was discussing the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates with a few friends as they walked to Cobalt on July 26. At some point in the pre-bar jaunt,...
View ArticleStories From Male Groping Victims (And One Female Groper)
When the Washington Post's Gene Weingarten took the temperature of D.C.'s groping problem this week, he constructed two separate reader polls—one for women, and one for men. The women's poll asked...
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Groping at Cobalt, Consensual and Otherwise
View Larger Map Is there a more grope-centric nightlife destination in the District of Columbia than Cobalt? Out of the dozens of groping stories reported to the Sexist over the past couple of months,...
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City Paper‘s Best of D.C. Poll: Get Your Sex Preferences On
The Washington City Paper's Best Of D.C. reader's poll debuts today, and we're inviting District residents to file their favorites in the worlds of food, drink, shopping—and, of course, the...
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