PJ's Lounge (Legendary Augusta Maine Gay Bar/1958-2009) EU da butt shirt and knowing glances

and knowing glances

gyms became important social spaces alongside bars

Country/Western two-step events

backstabbing

“Lavender Menace” began as an insult

PJ's Lounge (Legendary Augusta Maine Gay Bar/1958-2009) EU da butt shirt and knowing glancesPJs Lounge Augusta, ME (19582009) For more than half a century, PJs Lounge occupied 80 Water Street in Augusta, becoming a landmark of Maine nightlife and, eventually, the states oldest continuously operating gay bar. PJs originally opened in 1958, during an era when Maines strict liquor laws required bars to provide a certain number of seats and patrons were generally expected to remain seatedrules that made dancing, mingling, and meeting new people