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Contents:

• 34-YEAR-OLD MAN ARRTED HELL'S KCHEN GAY BAR SERIAL VANDALISM
• MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND
• FOLLOW THE RABOW — HELL’S KCHEN PRIDE LGBTQIA+ GAY BAR GUI
• HELL'S KCHEN GAY BARS REACT TO ATTACKS ON QUEER MEN
• GAY HELL’S KCHEN NYC
• NYPD SEEKS SPECT STRG OF ATTACKS ON HELL’S KCHEN GAY BAR
• THERAPY, ONE OF NEW YORK’S MOST POPULAR GAY BARS, WAS A HOME FOR QUEER EXCELLENCE

34-YEAR-OLD MAN ARRTED HELL'S KCHEN GAY BAR SERIAL VANDALISM

Tuday, November 22, 2022HELL'S KITCHEN, Manhattan (WABC) -- A man was arrted the serial vandalism of a gay bar Hell's Kchen on Tuday morng. Eyewns News exclively ptured a man enterg an unmarked police van after officers spent hours si a Hell's Kchen apartment buildg where they believe he say the spect, intified as 34-year-old Sean Kuilan, hurled a brick at the wdow of a gay bar Hell's Kchen three tim the last has been charged wh crimal posssn of a weapon, crimal mischief and reckls had prevly released vio of one of the cints, clearly showg a man throwg a rock through the wdow of VERS on 9th Avenue Saturday night, hours before a gunman killed five people and wound more than a dozen others at Club Q, an LGBTQIA+ bar Colorado Tuday morng, Eyewns News reporter Derick Waller spoke to neighbors who regnized the man police had been lookg for. "I'm worried about what the next move uld be and whether they would do to other gay bars the neighborhood, " bar owner David DeParola asked about this ongog fd wh his staff the bar owner said he don't regnize the spect at READ | Mother seekg answers when son found ad after night out NYC----------* Get Eyewns News Delivered * More Manhattan news* Send a news tip* Download the abc7NY app for breakg news alerts * Follow on YouTube Subm a tip or story ia to Eyewns News Have a breakg news tip or an ia for a story we should ver?

MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND

A spect was bted Tuday the strg of attacks on a Hell’s Kchen gay bar — and allegedly told ps he was jt “exactg revenge” on behalf of a gal pal fdg wh the club, police said.

“I’m gay myself, ” Kuilan said as he was led out of a police vehicle and rted to urt handcuffs on Tuday eveng.

The ctomers were not jured, thanks to the shatterproof pane stalled by owner David DeParola — who said was a preutn agast anti-gay attacks. “Even sce then, there was a Zoom meetg wh lol gay bar owners and the precct clost to that was tend to help crease munitn between . A lol gay man was arrted on Tuday for the recent brick attacks on a popular Hell's Kchen gay bar NYC.

FOLLOW THE RABOW — HELL’S KCHEN PRIDE LGBTQIA+ GAY BAR GUI

Sean Kuilan, 34, was taken to ctody and charged wh crimal mischief, reckls endangerment, and crimal posssn of a weapon for three of the four cints at the VERS gay nightclub which took place wh the past two weeks, The Gothamist reports.

Three of the cints were ught on vio, and Kuilan was intified wh the help of tips to the Crime Stoppers chief of tectiv Jam Essig said vtigators do not believe the crim were motivated by anti-gay hatred, but stead rulted om a personal dispute Kuilan's female iend had wh the VERS nightclub. "I'm gay myself, " he quietly rpond to reporters' qutns the vio.

Hell’s Kchen is right at the center of New York’s gay scene, and s muny mak sure that PRIDE is way more than jt a passg holiday.

HELL'S KCHEN GAY BARS REACT TO ATTACKS ON QUEER MEN

It has the ept herage of any gay bar the neighborhood — havg started off as Town & Country, and then Cleo’s, before ’s current eratn.

” Another fan of the poprn mache, rear Doug add: “The mix of people who gather there has always been a microsm of gays and alli. For the sporty typ, DBL is also a favore hangout spot for some of the New York Gay Football League players! Says rear Joseph: “Who don’t like shirtls wboys tentnally dancg for the gay clientele!?

GAY HELL’S KCHEN NYC

A neighborhood stutn for s, Jacqui Squatriglia and the team at Flamg Saddl have built their most gay untry wtern bar to a Hell’s Kchen landmark. Adds rear Krista: “FSS is absolutely the most fun and most clive Gay Bar HK.

As a gay woman, I feel the love and pri every time I walk . There is always a diverse group of people — straight, gay, trans, etc. “It was a gay space for almost 30 years and that was one of the ma reasons Jason and I cid to take over the space, ” he said ahead of the club’s lnch.

NYPD SEEKS SPECT STRG OF ATTACKS ON HELL’S KCHEN GAY BAR

“We wanted to keep as a safe space for the gay muny, but very much wele for all.

The newt gay bar the neighborhood, FLEX, has jt opened — fillg the space prevly occupied by Posh on W51st Street.

THERAPY, ONE OF NEW YORK’S MOST POPULAR GAY BARS, WAS A HOME FOR QUEER EXCELLENCE

Hardware Bar — 697 10th Avenue — between W47th and W48th StreetTalk about handy — this former hardware store is now a happeng gay bar, glammed up but signed to evoke the dtrial remnants of s former tenant and full of “great vib and drks” per rear Mchell. Indtry Bar — 355 W 52nd St between 8th and 9th AvenueVoted “New York’s Bt Gay Bar” by New York Magaze and the Village Voice, this dis ball-lan venue is a long standg favore for s nightly happy hour and wi variety of drag performers, cludg a r, teractive weekly viewg party of RuPl’s Drag Race and a s-long drag revue, Queen!

Lookg for a place to show off the bt of HK gay bars? Said founr David DeParola of the bar’s missn: “We want VERS to her the new age of queer spac —spac are no longer jt a ‘gay men’s bar’ or a ‘lbian bar’ — there’s a real versatily velopg the broar queer muny that I believe is the future of how we’ll gather together.

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