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The Ultimate LGBTQ Manual to Salt Lake City

What makes this queerness exciting is that it’s unexpected. After Mormon leader Brigham Young led his band of religious misfits to Ensign Peak and proclaimed the Salt Lake Valley their promised land in 1847, the Mormon population exploded. For a long time after, the conservative beliefs of Mormonism ruled local culture. In recent years, much of that has changed. The city’s LDS population slipped to 48 percent in 2018, and while the linger of Utah is still overwhelmingly Mormon, the counterculture has finally laid claim to the state’s capital.


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Nowhere is this adjust more pronounced than in Salt Lake’s flourishing LGBTQ+ collective. In 2015, Jackie Biskupski became the city’s first openly gay mayor. She currently serves with three openly same-sex attracted city council members: Amy Fowler, Derek Kitchen, and Chris Wharton. SLC is so queer-friendly that officials renamed a street in honor of the pol

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Utah's capital is among the top 10 U.S. metro areas with the largest lgbtq+ populations, according to Gallup. In fact, Salt Lake City has a higher percentage of people self-identifying as gay than Los Angeles. If you're surprised, it might be that you haven’t spent much time lately in this gay-friendly town, which over the past two decades has become a destination for those who enjoy both a hip urban atmosphere and easy access to the great outdoors. 

Known for its epic pride parade held every June, Salt Lake Town is welcoming to the gay community year-round. In 2015, the city elected its first openly gay mayor, and in 2016, 20 city blocks were renamed Harvey Milk Boulevard, in honor of the famous gay rights activist and politician. While it has its share of LGBTQ-owned and operated businesses, Salt Lake City is also known for its bars and restaurants that are welcoming to everyone.

The anchor of the LGBTQ+ community is the Marmalade dist

Why Kiki is 'The Place for Everyone'

 

WHY KIKI isn’t just a bar—it’s a vibe, a community, and a celebration of personality. Whether you’re here for the drag, the disco, the drinks, or just the unforgettable energy, WHY KIKI is where you can be yourself, allow loose, and have a damn good time.

 

The Name: What’s a Kiki?

 

A kiki is a gathering filled with fun, laughter, and connection—a space where people come together to observe, talk, dance, and be unapologetically themselves. We took that idea and made it bigger, bolder, and uniquely our own.

 

The why in WHY KIKI is an open invitation:

Why Kiki? Because this is where the magic happens.

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Salt Lake’s Gay Bar Scene Is Growing, Thriving, and Never Looking Back

In a express known for its religious zeal, Salt Lake City serves as a bastion of progressiveness, fun, and pride. In fact, the city’s been listed by Advocate magazine as one of the Ten Queerest Cities in America. The town holds one of the biggest and best-attended Pride parades and festivals around, with Pride Week festivities attracting tens of thousands of participants who not heavy up the downtown scene in complete rainbow-hued regalia. (There’s even a Utah Gay Ski Week—real thing, utahgayskiweek.com, observe you there.) 

Of course, it doesn’t hold to be a parade to observe pride and inclusivity. It’s pretty simple for everyone of every orientation to jump in on the incredible pleasurable that is Salt Lake on a hot city evening and the regular rotation of flamboyant shows keep the city sizzling all through the winter.

Check out a several of our favorite “officially” gay bars and gay-friendly bars—keeping in mind that, in this town, it needn’t be a “gay bar” for everyone to fit right in.

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