Boxers gay sports bar has found succs New York and beyond - Outsports

Contents:

• GAY SPORTS BAR
• GAY SPORTS BAR
• A GAYBORHOOD BAR SAID CLOSED ‘DUE TO HATE.’ THE FULL STORY IS MORE PLITED.
• BOXERS GAY SPORTS BAR HAS FOUND SUCCS NEW YORK AND BEYOND
• THE INEVABLE RISE OF THE GAY HOOTERS

GAY SPORTS BAR

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GAY SPORTS BAR

A Philalphia gay bar posted a notice on Facebook last week that was “officially closed due to hate. People were angry — wasn’t the first bar the Gayborhood to be shuttered — and some showed up at the bar Sunday for a fundraiser to support the 20 employe newly out of, who’s owned a buildg next to Boxers and has had a prence the neighborhood for years, said he’s not motivated by hate or homophobia.

Owned by Bob Fluet and Robert Hynds, the cha has three lotns New York and has been scribed as the “gay Hooters. " He said he wouldn’t ment further on Sger’s Ablao Jr., general manager at Boxers PHL, said the flier and Facebook postg “didn’t make any speculatn that was homophobia.

Gay bars e and go.

A GAYBORHOOD BAR SAID CLOSED ‘DUE TO HATE.’ THE FULL STORY IS MORE PLITED.

Yet Boxers, the gay sports bar that origally opened s first lotn on 20th Street Chelsea, is now startg s 10th year, gog stronger than ever, and spreadg across New York Cy and beyond. When Boxers first popped up Manhattan, there was already a gay sports bar the neighborhood: Gym Sports Bar, which opened Chelsea 2005.

While some may have scratched their heads at two gay bars openg wh jt a few years and wh a few blocks of one another, Boxers owner Rob Hynds has found there’s enough tert gay bars — cludg sports-themed bars — to make every bs owner happy. “Manhattan is such a big monster, and the gay muny is so big and diverse and people want to go out their neighborhood, ” Hynds told Outsports recently.

BOXERS GAY SPORTS BAR HAS FOUND SUCCS NEW YORK AND BEYOND

“There’s que a gay muny up there, ” Hynds said. The gay sports bar was found by men the lol gay pool league lookg for a place to play the sport they love.

That isn’t to say that all of the Boxers bartenrs are gay or bi. Regardls of who pours the drks, Boxers has bee one of the preement gay sports bars the untry. Gay bars have tradnally had certa them, om leather bars, to dance clubs, to untry and wtern bars.

I sat down wh -owner Rob Hynds to chat about what mak a great gay bar om a management perspective. We also touched upon the growg trend of straight women gay bars, and what he se as the future for Boxers. Michael Cook: How do you straddle the sports bar atmosphere and vibe, while still keepg a tradnal gay bar that has showgs of RuPl’s Drag Race?

THE INEVABLE RISE OF THE GAY HOOTERS

Rob Hynds: You know, the gay bar has kd of evolved through the years. We thought maybe if we were too much of a generic sports bar, the “mascule” sports bar if you will, that would turn off some of the gay muny.

We are a gay sports bar where drag is a sport kd of thg. Was ially difficult to get straight men to e to a gay sports bar?

Fast forward to 2018, and we have women g to bars wh bachelorette parti and groups of women g alone bee, among other reasons, they are not harassed at gay bars. RH: I have heard that rift om gay men who pla that there are too many women at a bar.