![]() Only one is open, English Ivy's, and earlier this year it sold to a partnership of straight people, causing some regulars to worry about the place's future. ![]() "Guys my age stopped going out to bars all the time," said LaFary, 48, "and the new generation never did catch on." In a 17-year bartending career, LaFary has worked at six Indianapolis gay bars. Jack LaFary poured the last of the drinks at the 501 in October but had seen the end coming well before then. In the past six months Talbott Street, long-known for its drag shows, closed, as did the 501 Eagle, a bar favored by leather enthusiasts since 1986. Among the casualties: the venerable Varsity, the city's oldest gay bar, dating back to the 1940s. Since 2015 at least five have closed their doors in Indianapolis, about half the city's total. INDIANAPOLIS - Gay bars are going out of business fast.
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