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Contents:

• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• BT GAY BARS NEAR UPPER WT SI, MANHATTAN, NY
• 'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
• STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

New York's Lost Gay BarsWe've known for many years that too many of our cherished gay bars and clubs are shutterg, fallg victim to risg rents and the ubiquy of apps like Grdr and Scff. There's a walkg tour New York to memorate beloved gay bars and clubs that have closed down.

There will always be gay bars, but will they be as vivid, sexy, and subversive as the hnts of yore? The history of NYC nightlife is studd wh the memori of fascatg boît that attracted gays sperate need of nnectn, then ultimately fell away as newer spots and trends emerged. Once a year—for three years a row—they've done Gay Bars That Are Gone, an rmative walk as part of Jane Jabsftival, May.

BT GAY BARS NEAR UPPER WT SI, MANHATTAN, NY

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'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE

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STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

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WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

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After the end of Prohibn the 1930s, that legacy was cemented, as gay bars, social clubs and nightclubs emerged where queer people led gay renaissanc around the boroughs. Bartenrs uld refe service to gay ctomers, and anyone si acced of “disorrly” or “immoral” nduct, like same-genr flirtg, kissg or dancg, uld be arrted.

The first season of “Pose, ” a show about the ballroom scene — and so much more — set the late 1980s, clud a wdow to this experience a heartbreakg scene which Blan, played exquisely by MJ Rodriguez, endur transmisogynistic harassment for tryg to tegrate a downtown gay bar. That scene was filmed at Juli’, a real bar New York and one of the olr s of gay activism and patronage the cy.

Gask, a Tridadian photographer who documented the ntemporary ballroom scene, ptured timate imag of gay gathergs that breathe and perspire on the page. Stephanie Keh for The New York TimThat is what happened a few years ago wh the Starle Lounge the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, the olst black-owned gay bar New Holm is also one of the anizers of a monthly summer party lled Joy, which they started three years ago wh a good iend, Maria Garcia, a D. She also felt was important to hold daytime events, a nod to the afternoon parti, lled tea danc, that have been a staple of gay culture for several s.

The gay bars that existed when I was a younger adult New York didn’t feel welg to me, and when I went, I was often one of few people of lor, and never felt sire or sired. The two of them wanted to create a feelg for a space that they felt was lackg downtown Manhattan, and they transformed the bar the bottom of the East Village Standard to a gay bar named No Bar.

Not too far away is the Rosemont (63 Montrose Ave., Brooklyn), one of the cy’s most accsible gay bars and a drag mec, or C’mon Everybody (325 Frankl Ave., Brooklyn), whose ocsnal Kate Bh night is a special, special time.