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Contents:
- ROCHTER'S GAY BAR SCENE
- WHERE HAVE ALL THE GAY BARS GONE?
- THE BT GAY BAR ROCHTER, NY - BACHELOR FOM
- BOB DARDANO: I’D RATHER BE GAY ROCHTER
ROCHTER'S GAY BAR SCENE
In a half-century, Rochter’s gay bars went om secret and forbidn to “out” and everywhere to almost nowhere. * gay bar university ave rochester ny *
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.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE GAY BARS GONE?
For s, gay bars were among the few plac that queer people uld gather relative safety.
“If you were lookg for a boyiend and got rejected, at least you knew wasn’t bee you were gay.
THE BT GAY BAR ROCHTER, NY - BACHELOR FOM
The pub, at 123 North St., was one of the few gay bars Rochter before 1975.
BOB DARDANO: I’D RATHER BE GAY ROCHTER
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. 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.