12 Lost Gay Bars of New York Cy

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HARLEM’S BLACK, GAY BARS ARE THRIVG THE MIDDLE OF A PANMIC

“What I love about Black people, there’s a rilience , and if you’re Black and gay, ’s even stronger, ” he explaed. At plac like Alibi, they n feel at down the street om Alibi — a quick, five-mute walk so close that hoppg a r would feel like a waste of gas — is Lambda Lounge, the neighborhood’s only other Black-owned gay bar.

“I really wanted the Black muny to have good optns, to not only have to go to Chelsea for a gay bar. We have a lol gay bar! ”Though the gradual shift om summer’s warmth to wter’s chill has put an end to that specific sense of outdoor mararie, Alibi and Lambda still offer a wele change of pace om the gay bars of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.

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

Not only are Mko, Hugh, and Solomon an spiratn for lnchg succsful bs as out and proud Black gay men, but what they’ve created — a safe space for queer people a neighborhood not typilly known for embracg s LGBTQ+ populatn — has life-changg agre. I jt knew that if Alibi had closed down, was gog to be the same script, the same story: Oh, another gay, Black bs nnot survive.

GAY-OWNED BS

"While we’ll never know whether Lambda would have opened if Alibi had shut down, we do know that havg two gay, Black-owned bs is always better than one.

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Gay-Owned Bs – NYC LGBT Historic S Project.

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