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Guerrilla Gay Bar York: Watch what happens when LGBTQ crowd crashes the neighborhood bar

On most weekends, Javier Aguayo is down in Washington, D.C., where he and his husband have an apartment.

But about a month ago, two of his D.C. friends were coming to visit York. He needed to find something to do.

Searching around online, Aguayo landed on a Facebook community called Guerrilla Queer Bar York.

It seemed like a novel idea, and with no gay block in York County the 50-year-old York College politics professor decided to inspect it out.

"They came along and were really impressed," Aguayo said. "They thought York was some sort of gay haven."

There used to be established gay bars in York County but one of the last, Altland's Ranch, closed in 2016.

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Guerrilla Gay Bar York aims to transform that.

Its concept is simple.

On the second Saturday of each month, the group posts on its Facebook page which prevent in downtown York its followers will go to. It makes the announcement usually in the afternoon and tells people to get there at 9 p.m.

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York's only remaining homosexual bar closes

Altlands Ranch, in Spring Grove, closed effective Rally 20, according to its Facebook page.
The Ranch was the last remaining queer bar in York after the prior closings of Velvet Rope and LUX.
LGBT members say technology and mainstream integration have led to decline of same-sex attracted bars.

York County's oldest and last remaining gay bar has closed, according to the Altland's Ranch Facebook page.

The Spring Grove bar made the closing announcement Tuesday night and thanked its many supporters over the years. As of Thursday afternoon, the Facebook post had received more than 130 reactions — mostly sad — and 170 comments, ranging from "So sad! This is where I discovered my true self" to "What a horrible way to travel out for such a great place!!! SHAME ON YOU!!"

Robert Stump, a court-appointed legal guardian of surviving owner Rodney Nagle, said the decision to close the establishment at 8505 Orchard Road was made because of a lack of support from the community. The business was created in 1967, according to state Department of State records.

The building is now for sale, and those wishing to ask about purchasing it can reach Stump at (215) 802

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'Changing times' close LGBT prevent in York

Altland's Ranch, a longtime hub in York County's gay and lesbian collective, has closed after about 50 years of business.

The bar and restaurant at 8505 Orchard Road, Jackson Township, first announced the closure on Facebook on March 22. The Ranch, as it was informally called, will be put up for sale at an undetermined price, said Robert Stump, who oversees the bar's ownership.

A decline in turnout coupled with the cost of maintaining the property led to the bar's closure, Stump said.

"You can't sustain a bar if you don't have people coming," Stump said. "There's no money coming back in to remunerate for things."

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Changing times contributed to the drop in clientele, said Charles Kress, who worked there until he retired in December 2015.

Kress, 62, said when he first visited the bar in the late 1960s, there were few safe places for gay men to gather. That began to adjust by the late 1990s, Kress said, and has continued to change as society has progressed.

In one sense, the decline of gay and lesbian bars is "the price of progress" for the queer woman, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community