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Contents:
- ROCHTER'S GAY BAR SCENE
- GAY NIGHTLIFE ROCHTER
- ROCHTER, NY GAY CY GUI
- WHERE HAVE ALL THE GAY BARS GONE?
- THE BT GAY BAR ROCHTER, NY - BACHELOR FOM
- ROCHTER GAY SNAS
ROCHTER'S GAY BAR SCENE
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GAY NIGHTLIFE ROCHTER
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Even though the gay muny is spread across the cy, the Park Avenue rridor is the center of the cy’s gay neighborhood. More than 30 years has passed sce those days, and Rosie’s, like dozens of other gay bars Rochter and hundreds across the untry, has closed. For s, gay bars were among the few plac that queer people uld gather relative safety.
ROCHTER, NY GAY CY GUI
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“If you were lookg for a boyiend and got rejected, at least you knew wasn’t bee you were gay. In a blog post for the Out Alliance’s “Shoulrs to Stand On” project that archiv memori of LGBTQ+ culture Rochter, Dardano relled g out Rochter and some of the many gay and lbian bars that served as social spots for Rochter’s queer muny.
“The early-80s seemed to be a Goln Age for gay and lbian night life the Flower Cy, ” Dardano wrote.
Listgs for bars that tered to gay men dropped to 387 om 699 durg that perd, while lbian bar listgs fell to jt 15.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE GAY BARS GONE?
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The precipo drop was only offset by a marked rise between 1987 and 2007 listgs for tablishments which women and gay men were socializg.
) click to enlarge COURTESY OF THE OUT ALLIANCE In 1973, a bunch of bikers opened a gay bar lled the Bachelor Fom on Ma Street, near Goodman Street.
From the 1960s through the early-ghts, downtown Rochter saw the openg and closg of dozens of gay bars and dance clubs. “The biggt challenge is that you don’t really need a gay club anymore, ” said Joe Marcella, 63, owner of Club Marcella Buffalo, which had a lotn Rochter on Liberty Pole Way om 1994 to 1999.
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But others sist that, regardls of general clivens, there are many reasons that havg specifilly gay spac is still important.
The gay bar was loted on Liberty Pole Way and later beme Abilene Bar and Lounge unr new ownership. Bat relled one of Rochter’s earlit gay bars as Dick’s 43 Lounge (also referred to as Martha’s, after the owner), which opened on Front Street the 1950s and later moved to Stone Street and then State Street. “They would see men dancg as ditive of, ‘This is a gay bar, ’” Bat said, addg that he spected some plac paid off thori to be alerted to unannounced viss om police.
By the late 1970s and early ’80s, as the threat of police harassment fad, the taverns, piano bars, and dance clubs began to serve the gay muny new ways. Tim Tompks, 67, relled hostg a meetg at Liberty, his club on Liberty Pole Way, to discs the strange new disease that seemed to only be affectg gay men. In attendance were Tim Sweeney — who would bee the print of Gay Men’s Health Crisis New York Cy — and Tompk’s iend, Sue Cole, who worked for Monroe County’s STD clic.
ROCHTER GAY SNAS
Reasons for gay bars closg range om the cultural to the fancial, and sometim the two overlap. “Folks don’t necsarily need to go to a gay bar to meet people, you n pretty much do that anywhere now. click to enlarge PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH Longtime Rochter rint Ove Overmyer at the Bachelor Fom, a Universy Avenue gay bar that has been open sce 1973.
When asked why so few gay bars exist today, the answer om patron after patron was almost universal: “The ter. “The advent of the ter changed everythg — you n have your dner and your sex livered straight to your door, ” said Tuday Thomas, a 60-year-old trans woman, edian, and actrs who is based Los Angel but grew up Rochter and bartend and performed at several gay clubs here the late ’70s and ’80s.