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Fully Lodged

The Lodge outside of Hagerstown, Md., celebrates its two-year anniversary this weekend

By Doug Rule
October 31, 2012

Right before Halloween 2010, Ryan Dryden and Joe Velasquez, a gay couple, opened The Lodge, a gay bar outside Hagerstown in western Maryland. But The Lodge wasn't the area's first gay bar. In fact, it
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