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Contents:

• HELL’S KCHEN WEL OLD FAVOR — GAY BARS BOXERS AND 9TH AVENUE SALOON ARE COMG BACK
• BOXERS GAY SPORTS BAR HAS FOUND SUCCS NEW YORK AND BEYOND
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• GAY SPORTS BAR
• A GAYBORHOOD BAR SAID CLOSED ‘DUE TO HATE.’ THE FULL STORY IS MORE PLITED.
• GAY SPORTS BAR
• GAY SPORTS BAR
• THE INEVABLE RISE OF THE GAY HOOTERS
• BOXERS PHL’S SUDN CLOSG SHOCKS PHILALPHIA’S GAYBORHOOD

HELL’S KCHEN WEL OLD FAVOR — GAY BARS BOXERS AND 9TH AVENUE SALOON ARE COMG BACK

“Hell’s Kchen is the real center — no matter what’s gog on Brooklyn and gog elsewhere, Hell’s Kchen really is the central lotn for our muny and still the sential the lifeblood of our gay muny.

BOXERS GAY SPORTS BAR HAS FOUND SUCCS NEW YORK AND BEYOND

“We’re a new ownership team, but we’re not tryg to revent the wheel, ” said -owner Tim De Iturriaga, who has prevly n popular gay clubs like the Adonis Lounge Midtown East. Gay bars e and go.

Yet Boxers, the gay sports bar that origally opened s first lotn on 20th Street Chelsea, is now startg s 10th year, gog stronger than ever, and spreadg across New York Cy and beyond. When Boxers first popped up Manhattan, there was already a gay sports bar the neighborhood: Gym Sports Bar, which opened Chelsea 2005. While some may have scratched their heads at two gay bars openg wh jt a few years and wh a few blocks of one another, Boxers owner Rob Hynds has found there’s enough tert gay bars — cludg sports-themed bars — to make every bs owner happy.

“Manhattan is such a big monster, and the gay muny is so big and diverse and people want to go out their neighborhood, ” Hynds told Outsports recently.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

“There’s que a gay muny up there, ” Hynds said. The gay sports bar was found by men the lol gay pool league lookg for a place to play the sport they love.

That isn’t to say that all of the Boxers bartenrs are gay or bi.

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A GAYBORHOOD BAR SAID CLOSED ‘DUE TO HATE.’ THE FULL STORY IS MORE PLITED.

Boxers, the gay owned and operated cha of bars wh three lotns New York ( Chelsea, Hell's Kchen, and s newt bar on the Upper East Si) and one Philalphia, has expand to Washgton Heights.

"Washgton Heights serv own neighborhood gay bar, " says Bob Fluet, who owns Boxers along wh Rob Hynds.

"We have ma our missn to go to neighborhoods that have lots of gay people but no gay bar. We are brgg the ntemporary gay bar to them, " he as Ameri's Gay Sports Bar, Boxers mix elements tradnally found mastream sports bars like pool tabl, beer on tap, brick oven pizza, 2-for-1 happy hours and flat screen TVs broadstg sports gam wh queer touch like DJs, large outsi spac (a terrace Chelsea and an open rooftop Hells Kchen), Brney Spears mic vios and shirtls male jock bartenrs do by beg all-clive. Boxers wel gays, lbians, transgenr, and every letter of the LGBT+ alli to s bars.

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"We believe that orr to achieve full equaly, the gay muny needs to open s arms and show s love to our alli, " says 's one of the reasons Boxers teamed wh Smirnoff Vodka and the Human Rights Campaign on the "Love Ws" mpaign.

That began when a iend troduced him to the then gay nightclub Pier 9, loted the buildg that later beme Ziegfeld’s-Secrets, where drag shows were held. Gay bar Pl One on Capol Hill, which also hosted drag shows. It was at the Pl One about a year later when Robson met Mother Mame Dennis, the drag performer and lead anizer of the Amy of Washgton, a lol drag social club that anized drag events, cludg the Gay Miss Universe drag petn.

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’ And 10 years later, Mame crowned me Miss Gay Universe. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

THE INEVABLE RISE OF THE GAY HOOTERS

They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.

He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton.

BOXERS PHL’S SUDN CLOSG SHOCKS PHILALPHIA’S GAYBORHOOD

“I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.