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"If you’ve ever dreamed about going to a bar and romantically locking eyes with someone across the pool table during an Ariana Grande song, then you should go to Tabu. The Gayborhood spot is a full-on sports bar, with a lounge for live shows and game nights upstairs. If talking about Drag Race at the bar or looking coordinated on the dance floor isn’t your thing, they also have good buffalo wings to pass the time until the pool table is free." - candis mclean

"If you’ve ever dreamed about going to a bar and romantically locking eyes with someone across the pool table during an Ariana Grande song, then you should go to 254. The Gayborhood spot is a full-on sports bar, with a lounge for live shows and game nights upstairs. If talking about Drag Race at the bar or looking coordinated on the dance floor isn’t your thing, they also have good buffalo wings to pass the time until the pool table is free." - Candis R. McLean

"On Saturday evening, Gayborhood performers and community members protested outside of local bar Tabu (254 S. 12th Street) following the venue’s recent decision to keep a Palestinian burlesque dancer from performing their act. Leila Delicious, a queer Palestinian-American artist, was denied entry to perform at Tabu because she brought a prop sign with her that read 'Our generation will free Palestine' on the front and 'Biden, demand a ceasefire. If you support genocide, you Isreal dumb!' on the back. After other performers at the bar failed to convince Tabu’s management to reconsider their decision to not let Delicious perform, the performer says she eventually left, and shared her experience on social media." - Ernest Owens