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With no gay bar or space to call its own, Newport's LGBTQ community feels 'isolated'

Although several bars host events for the community, the two said the area still needs a space to socialize and express themselves. Several gay bars have opened and closed in the city, but there has not been one in operation since Lionel Pires, the owner of Castaways, remembers when more than one gay bar dotted downtown Newport, drawing in tourism from the LGBTQ community in the late s and early 80s.

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Around , Pires attempted to buy the building, at 28 Prospect Hill St. The effort to establish a bar in that location was rife with barriers, from neighbor complaints about having a bar in the area to struggles obtaining a liquor license from the City Council, an issue eventually picked up by local news outlets.