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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

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BOXERS GAY SPORTS BAR HAS FOUND SUCCS NEW YORK AND BEYOND

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.

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

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.

GAY SPORTS BAR

“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.

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GAY SPORTS BAR

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GAY SPORTS BAR

Yet even wh s newfound diversy, the one classic totem of urban upward mobily that has remaed missg is a gay bar; until now. 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.

"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.

THE INEVABLE RISE OF THE GAY HOOTERS

Gay bar Pl One on Capol Hill, which also hosted drag shows.

BOXERS PHL’S SUDN CLOSG SHOCKS PHILALPHIA’S GAYBORHOOD

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