Herman Niev' memory stretch back to when the epicenter of San Francis's gay scene wasn’t the tony Castro, or the leather-and-Levi’s bars South of
Contents:
- LAW STUNT'S FAY SAYS HE WENT MISSG AFTER VISG NYC GAY BAR
- THE CASE OF AMERI’S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
- A 25-YEAR-OLD GOT A TAXI OUTSI AN N.Y.C. GAY BAR. HE WAS AD AN HOUR LATER.
- HERB BMEISTER PICKED UP MEN FROM GAY BARS, THEN BURIED THEM IN HIS YARD
- THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.
- WHY GAY BARS ARE DISAPPEARG ACROSS AMERI
- THE DEATH OF THE GAY BAR
- NORTH TEXAS GAY BARS HAVE PROVID MUNY FOR MANY. HERE ARE THEIR STORI
- SAM SMH REVEALS THEY ARE MISSG ‘MCDONALD’S & A GAY BAR’ DURG QUARANTE
LAW STUNT'S FAY SAYS HE WENT MISSG AFTER VISG NYC GAY BAR
A New York Cy law stunt has been missg for nearly two weeks, and his brother said his last known lotn was a gay bar Manhattan’s Hell’s Kchen neighborhood. * missing gay bar *
A New York Cy law stunt has been missg for nearly two weeks, and his brother said his last known lotn was a gay bar Manhattan’s Hell’s Kchen neighborhood. In ci like San Francis and New York, gay bars—once central to both a cy's gay muny and the liberatn movement self—are cle.
Herman Niev’ memory stretch back to when the epicenter of San Francis’s gay scene wasn’t the tony Castro, or the leather-and-Levi’s bars South of Market or even the htler hangouts Polk Gulch. That was the first gay bar I’d ever been , ” Niev, who is now 78 years old, rells.
THE CASE OF AMERI’S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
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Over the last ten years, giant leaps queer visibily have given way to a general cle homophobia. Yet gay bars, once central to both a cy’s gay muny and to the liberatn movement self, are cle.
A 25-YEAR-OLD GOT A TAXI OUTSI AN N.Y.C. GAY BAR. HE WAS AD AN HOUR LATER.
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Scratch anyone who’s lived an Amerin gay mec long enough, and this fact be almost a melancholy pot of pri, of the I’ve-seen--all-kid variety. ’s nightlife pal, saw two of s three gay bars shutter, a loss ma all the worse bee one was the last full-on lbian bar left the cy (the Lexgton Club), and the other a workg-class venue that tered to the dimishg Lato populatn (Esta Noche).
Historilly, gay bars have been margal neighborhoods where rents were low; but what gentrifitn giveth also taketh away, as yterday’s periphery be today’s unaffordable hotspot.
It’s not enough, however, to note that gay bars are disappearg.
HERB BMEISTER PICKED UP MEN FROM GAY BARS, THEN BURIED THEM IN HIS YARD
The aths of two gay men New York Cy are eerily siar, and the mother of one of the victims said that vtigators are lookg to whether they are... * missing gay bar *
And further, are gay spac even necsary anymore? If you ask 100 random heterosexual New Yorkers to name a gay bar, many of them would probably say “Stonewall. ” But the once Mob-owned bar on Christopher Street that lnched the LGBT Liberatn Movement is hardly the lifeblood of Gay New York today (and arguably never really was).
In fact, the epicenter of the gay scene has long sce migrated far beyond s origs the Wt Village. Daniel Erickson, a barback at one of North Brooklyn’s olst extant gay bars, the 12-year-old Metropolan Williamsburg, has observed the scene change om unr him even jt the past few years.
THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.
Herb Bmeister seemed like a regular fay man the Indianapolis suburbs, but when his wife would leave town, he would cise gay bars and hunt for victims. * missing gay bar *
“The bars ed to be the unrground scene, but that changed, and gay bars beme ol for everyone to hang out , and people’s expectatn of a bar has shifted towards specialty cktails, ” he says.
WHY GAY BARS ARE DISAPPEARG ACROSS AMERI
“Last Call,” by Elon Green, retrac the murrs of four men by a serial killer the 1990s, at a time when gay men felt prsured to hi their sexualy and were often the victims of homophobia. * missing gay bar *
Consequently, Ameri’s well-known “gay-borhoods”—the Castro, Hell’s Kchen, Wt Hollywood, DuPont Circle and Boystown, to name a few—are changg, too.
THE DEATH OF THE GAY BAR
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Even the Castro, once the polil base of Harvey Milk, and still home to bakery lled Hot Cookie and a sgle-screen movie palace that ns a sg-along Sound of Mic every year, has taken on some trappgs of an airbshed, tourist-iendly gay herage district, rather than a livg, breathg gay neighborhood.
NORTH TEXAS GAY BARS HAVE PROVID MUNY FOR MANY. HERE ARE THEIR STORI
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Above ground, many ci are experiencg the rise of what might be termed the “post-gay bar”—plac wh mpy dér, strong pours and mixed crowds.
SAM SMH REVEALS THEY ARE MISSG ‘MCDONALD’S & A GAY BAR’ DURG QUARANTE
But to some, spac “for everyone” reprent the end of the sanctuari that a more overtly separatist gay culture built the 1970s and ’80s; to others ’s jt the next logil evolutn a cy where gay people have been assiated to mastream nightlife culture. In the se of San Francis, over the last half-century the cy’s gay bars have gone om visible and forbidn to public and numero—and, ultimately, may be fallg victim to their own succs. The monthslong vtigatns to the myster aths of two gay men who, on separate ocsns, were dgged, robbed and found ad after gog out for a night of fun the same Manhattan neighborhood have not yet yield any arrts.
The aths of two gay men New York Cy are eerily siar, and the mother of one of the victims said that vtigators are lookg to whether they are part of a crimal trend.