In a 17-year bartending career, LaFary has worked at six Indianapolis gay bars. 'Guys my age stopped going out to bars all the time,' said LaFary, 48, 'and the new generation never did catch on.' Jack LaFary poured the last of the drinks at the 501 in October but had seen the end coming well before then. In the past six months Talbott Street, long-known for its drag shows, closed, as did the 501 Eagle, a bar favored by leather enthusiasts since 1986. Among the casualties: the venerable Varsity, the city's oldest gay bar, dating back to the 1940s. Since 2015 at least five have closed their doors in Indianapolis, about half the city's total. View Gallery: Last dance at Talbott Street nightclub
