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Contents:

• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• BACK TO THE ’90S AND THE GAY UNRGROUND BALLROOM CULTURE OF NEW YORK
• THE HISTORY OF GAY NIGHTLIFE NEW YORK CY
• THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

Ballroom is an unrground LGBTQ subculture which participants, who are largely Black or Latx trans people and gay men, pete for priz, trophi, tl — thk “legend” and “in” — or sh at events known as balls. “It is imperative that we form a unified fellowship of brothers and sisters, pecially our trans sisters, battlg the te enemi of our opprsed muni, which also clu racism, HIV, homophobia, discrimatn and other social misfortun, ” Davis add. Bowman troduced Richard LaBoy, an Ao-Lato out gay man to the ballroom scene when LaBoy was 10th gra at Philalphia’s Central High School.

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Wh this Renaissance beg led by lears who were openly gay or intified wh nuanced sexuali, the Black queer muny Harlem was empowered. As a rult, by the 1960s-1980s, Harlem beme the epicentre of gay nightlife.

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Though data are sparse, studi have found that when gay teens e out to their fay, about a quarter are kicked out, and a third are asslted by parents or regivers. A small group of activists—cludg lears of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and fluential teens and young adults—helped to pneer the kiki scene, which borrows om the legacy of tradnal ballroom culture but sists on a youth-foced learship and cultural inty.

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“I was once a dark place, ” Zay says, thkg back to his time as a prsed gay boy livg Virgia. Like many margalized groups, members of the kiki scene e their own lgo—sometim lled "gaybonics" by soclogists—and the word cunt is nsired high praise.

Acrdg to Twiggy Pucci Garçon, the mother of the Hoe of Pucci, an artist, and an activist, the high fectn rat reflect ep srs flicted by homophobia and transphobia. Before Zay moved to New York 2011, he was an anx gay teenager livg Virgia who had jt been diagnosed wh HIV.

He effectively supported his hoe members through their difficulti, havg experienced his own share of problems wh racism, homophobia, health problems, and homelsns. Wh their groundbreakg mil dramaPose, FX and Ryan Murphy attempt to explore what life was like for gay, trans, and genr non-nformg dividuals New York’s ballroom muny the mid-1980s, before the culture crossed over to the mastream, as facilated and appropriated by, among others, Madonna’s “Vogue” and Jennie Livgston’s Paris Is Burng. Gee Chncey lls this the difitn of “the differenc between the public styl of middle-class and workg-class gay men” his book, Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World.