“Meet me under the clock”—for several decades, it was the slogan of the St. Charles Tavern. While it began in the early 1950s as a cocktail lounge owned by a prominent local horse breeder, the St. Charles gradually became one of the city’s most prominent gay bars, thanks to a combination of location and unintended … Continue reading Historicist: How the St. Charles Tavern went from Chinese-Food Restaurant to Popular Gay Bar