{"id":41683,"date":"2016-07-23T10:26:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T14:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/how-one-tiny-gay-bar-offers-refuge-in-the-most-homophobic-state-in-america\/"},"modified":"2016-07-23T10:26:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T14:26:31","slug":"how-one-tiny-gay-bar-offers-refuge-in-the-most-homophobic-state-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/how-one-tiny-gay-bar-offers-refuge-in-the-most-homophobic-state-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"How One Tiny Gay Bar Offers Refuge In The Most Homophobic State In America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>How One Tiny Gay Bar Offers Refuge In The Most Homophobic State In America<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/\/2016\/07\/wonderlust-1-670x506.png\" alt=\"wonderlust-1\" width=\"650\" height=\"491\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/?s=mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi<\/a> may not be known for its progressive politics or its welcoming attitude towards <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>&nbsp;people or its willingness to change, but it is still home&nbsp;to many members of the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p>A fascinating article published by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/inside-the-hottest-gay-bar-in-the-most-homophobic-state-in-the-nation\/2016\/07\/19\/70ad84ee-4910-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a> takes readers inside&nbsp;WonderLust, a one-year-old <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> bar in Jackson that bills itself as the city&rsquo;s &ldquo;hottest LGBT nightclub.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/mississippi-teen-high-schooler-day-drag-queen-night-20160602\" target=\"_blank\">This Mississippi Teen Is A High Schooler By Day And A Drag Queen At Night<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jesse Pandolfo, a 32-year-old <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">lesbian<\/a>, is the owner the bar, which is&nbsp;located inside&nbsp;a nondescript one-story concrete building on a deserted&nbsp;side street on the north end of town.&nbsp;Originally from Boston, Pandolfo <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">calls<\/a> living in the delta &ldquo;kind of a time warp.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You have to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> kind of an edited version of your life,&rdquo; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Which is precisely why WonderLust is so necessary.&nbsp;The bar regularly hosts dance parties, drag shows and karaoke nights, providing an outlet for a community living on the frays of society.<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi state law offers no discrimination protections for LGBTQ people, nor does it address hate crimes based on gender identity or sexual orientation, and lawmakers seem to constantly be looking for ways to further marginalize the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2016\/06\/federal-judge-rules-mississippi-can-begin-legal-discrimination-july-1\/?utm_source=queerty&amp;utm_medium=directlink&amp;utm_campaign=directlink&amp;utm_content=Federal+Judge+Rules+Mississippi+Can+Begin+Legal+Discrimination+July+1\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Judge Rules Mississippi Can Begin Legal Discrimination July 1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WonderLust patron Sham Williams tells&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/inside-the-hottest-gay-bar-in-the-most-homophobic-state-in-the-nation\/2016\/07\/19\/70ad84ee-4910-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;that Mississippi is&nbsp;perhaps&nbsp;&ldquo;the most racist and bigoted state in America,&rdquo; adding &ldquo;when I walk out that door I have three strikes against me&ndash;I&rsquo;m black, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> and a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But despite all that, she has no intentions of leaving.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mississippi is home,&rdquo; she says, &ldquo;even if it doesn&rsquo;t always feel like it. I don&rsquo;t want to go anywhere else.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a concept those who have never actually visited the state or&nbsp;felt the pull of the land or&nbsp;seen the many good things&nbsp;amongst all the bad&nbsp;will likely&nbsp;understand, but it&rsquo;s a sentiment shared by many.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I stay here because I&rsquo;m from here and I love it,&rdquo; Rob&nbsp;Hill, who works as the state director for the Human Rights Campaign, says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m 41, and I want the best for this state and I fight for it. I think we&rsquo;re better than what our legislators have demonstrated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaycities.com\/photos\/297-wonderlust\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check out a gallery of images from inside WonderLust.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=oQc00ax0sGM:BolLqRQPWFQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=oQc00ax0sGM:BolLqRQPWFQ:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/oQc00ax0sGM\/one-tiny-gay-bar-offers-refuge-homophobic-state-america-20160723\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/oQc00ax0sGM\/one-tiny-gay-bar-offers-refuge-homophobic-state-america-20160723<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How One Tiny Gay Bar Offers Refuge In The Most Homophobic State In America Mississippi may not be known for its progressive politics or its welcoming attitude towards <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>&nbsp;people or its willingness to change, but it is still home&nbsp;to many members of the LGBTQ community. A fascinating article published by the&nbsp;Washington Post takes readers inside&nbsp;WonderLust, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/how-one-tiny-gay-bar-offers-refuge-in-the-most-homophobic-state-in-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How One Tiny Gay Bar Offers Refuge In The Most Homophobic State In America<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How One Tiny Gay Bar Offers Refuge In The Most Homophobic State In America - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/how-one-tiny-gay-bar-offers-refuge-in-the-most-homophobic-state-in-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How One Tiny Gay Bar Offers Refuge In The Most Homophobic State In America - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How One Tiny Gay Bar Offers Refuge In The Most Homophobic State In America Mississippi may not be known for its progressive politics or its welcoming attitude towards gay&nbsp;people or its willingness to change, but it is still home&nbsp;to many members of the LGBTQ community. 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