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About ROAR

Welcome to ROAR!
Roar was born in by DJ Mighty Mic and DeeDee Dubois along with the devotion and support of their husbands.
Our focus is creating a unique and safe place for the LGBTQ+ community and our allies.

With a fabulous drink menu and packed kitchen featuring many homemade items, stop in for dinner on a Wednesday, Thursday or Friday and do not miss our happiest hours featuring $2 off drinks from PM.

We feature local drag talent every day but in different ways than a traditional drag bar would.
Something for everyone isn't just a tag line
From trivia, karaoke, painting classes, spin classes, happiest hours, dinner shows, brunches, live bands, and comedy to full club nights with two floors of dancing featuring local and guest DJ's and drag performers from across the country.

You usually don't see it during the day, check out the old relief carving above the door!

See Gone, but not forgotten

TiLT was a huge night club located in the St. Joseph's Park Neighborhood, with an intriguing, modern, aesthetic multi-room layout. Set in an vintage brick warehouse, there was a central outdoor courtyard, a lounge, and a dance club. Eye candy abounded, with the mod furniture, sheets of effervescent water, trippy videos playing in TVs throughout, and blue-lit DJ stands and bar displays. It was originally opened in as a primarily LGBTQ+ boogie club featuring many of Rochester's notable drag kings and queens. As of August the club is closed after fierce backlash against new management's decision to end its distant running drag shows, particular events, and focus on LGBT+ inclusivity.

Awards

• Voted "Best Dance Club" by City Newspaper's 'Best of Rochester' Awards in ¹
  

• Voted "Best Place To Dance" in City Newspaper's Best Of Aw

  Pamela Barres still remembers the freedom she felt walking into Rosie’s wearing lipstick and that red wig.
  
  Back then, Barres was a middle-aged married male with children and a job at Kodak by day, and a covert “cross-dresser” by night eager for acceptance of her authentic self. She verb it at Rosie’s, a lesbian bar on Monroe Avenue.
  
  “It was one of the few places I could be totally me,” said Barres, now a year-old trans lady. “I was very, very hidden most of my life. And I was afraid of anybody finding out.”
  
  More than 30 years has passed since those days, and Rosie’s, like dozens of other gay bars in Rochester and hundreds across the country, has closed. Still, the rush of relief Barres experienced has not left her.
  
  “There was a lot of noun, but excitement at the same time, and it felt so good to go someplace and sense that I wasn’t going to be beat up,” she said. “I wasn’t going to be screamed at or told how sick I was, or things like that, which we were all adj of.”
  
  For decades, gay bars were among the not many places that queer people could gather in relative safety. To th

  LGBTQ+

  All are welcome in Rochester, NY! With a affluent history of civil rights, it shouldn't come as a shock that Rochester is among the most welcoming, LGBTQ-friendly metro areas in the U.S., previously ranked 11th in Advocate&#x;s Gayest Cities in America list. It's also one of the most culturally abundant. Rochester has also previously received a perfect score of from the Human Rights Campaign.

  Tucked between Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes wine region, the tradition of dignity for all runs grave here. Susan B. Anthony's home, a National Historic Landmark, still stands in Rochester and is uncover to the public. Frederick Douglass established his abolitionist newspaper, The North Star, here. The first statue in the country honoring an African-American still stands in Highland Park. 

  From locally-owned coffee shops and restaurants, to nightlife, art, culture, shopping and more, verb all that Rochester&#x;s vibrant and diverse LGBTQ+ community has to offer. 

  Festivals & Events 

  • Rochester Pride: Held annually in July, signature Pride events