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Contents:

• GAY NEW YORK: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, DRAG SHOWS AND QUEER CULTURE
• NELSON MIL THEATRE PRENTS: A VERY GAY CABARET
• A (VERY) GAY CABARET IS UNRWAY
• TAL FROM THE WISE SLOTH: THE VERY GAY CABARET
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• GAY BARET - BRILLIANT NIGHT OUT! - PROUD EMBANKMENT
• THE BT GAY BARS LONDON

GAY NEW YORK: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, DRAG SHOWS AND QUEER CULTURE

NYC is a gay-iendly town wh a variety of neighbourhoods offerg pockets of queer culture and nightlife, each wh s own uy flavour.

The Wt Village – the hub of the morn gay movement, thanks to the 1969 rebelln at the Stonewall Inn – still bristl wh gay bars and drag clubs, mostly unaffected hangouts such as the appealg Piec, and The Monster, a two-floor nightlife emporium wh piano bar on top and dis down below. Chelsea (the gay mec the 90s) was bet by a mass exod as beme gentrified, though the long-nng Barracuda Lounge still provis booze and schmooze, and G Lounge never go away, thanks to s ambient mi-areas which to hang wh your clique. And Hell’s Kchen (or HK) is now the gay epicentre, where rents are a ltle more affordable, thereby attractg swarms of new arrivals who prowl the streets and look for fun on an obssive basis.

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(On last unt, there were 14 gay bars the area, whout a p off sight. And even gays whout mcl have a chance at some fun.

There are naked pictur the bathroom but this isn’t your typil over-the-top gay bar wh loud mic and ctomers. It’s the gay Cheers – if you’re 70, lol, though there’s ually a mix, wh other typ stragglg . Women get cheaper, “homo cys dus” pay more, and “str8 cys dus” pay a lot more.

Don’t go thkg you’re necsarily gog to see the bt show you’ve ever seen, but ’s fun as an Mm of Gay and Lbian ArtThe Public Theater is a great place to see theatre, and is mted to diversy.

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But the show don’t jt break ground; digs up the memori that are buried there, both joyful and tragic, and airs them poignant and telligent Soho, Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art (admissn ee) is a small treasure that celebrat the work of queer artists past and prent.

The shows pay tribute to a different element of gay culture, high or low, every episo. The birthday boy or girl go onstage and gets harassed by a drag queen, and that clus gay birthdays and other gay parti.

Whisnant:As early as the turn of the century, Berl's gay scene was attractg such notoriety that equently was mentned tourist lerature, liftg up the cy's gay scene as proof of the evils of urban life and the dangers of morny; them, Berl beme the untry's Sodom and Gomorrah put together, a sure sign of the land's the stag of Berl, the Tiller Girls showed off their legs, dancg a Rockett-style performance that amazed and tillated spectators. For the general public, this world was bewilrg--and que possibly Germany's gay men and lbians, though, Berl reprented promise. Its gay scen offered excg plac to hunt for love and happs.

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"Diverse, but DividMagn Hirschfeld, a Jewish German physician, sexologist and pneerg gay rights advote, was well acquated wh Berl's scene and mented on the diversy among the bars. Bis the Mother Cat, Nacke vised several other bars that were gatherg plac for gay men om the workg class and lower middle class. "In many of the rtrants, effemate homosexuals felt relaxed enough to "give ee re to their feme nature.

By far the most famo was the Eldorado a nightclub whose ftive atmosphere attracted not only homosexuals but also artists, thors, celebri, and tourists wantg to admire a piece of "nt" Berl or tch a glimpse of someone Lbian Club SceneLbians uld also be found some of the bars that were voted mostly to gay men [and were] often seen the larger clubs of the 1920s, such as the Topp and the Eldorado. The Dorian Gray, one of the olst and bt-known gay clubs by the Weimar era, had a special night set asi for the turn of the century, there were also a handful of exclively lbian bars the cy.

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The atmosphere was generally refed; the lightg was soft and sentimental mic played the of the most famo was Chez Ma Belle Sor on Marburger Strasse, rated Greek-style and furnished wh private booths, where upl uld take refuge behd the gay bars, many of the lbian bars were segregated somewhat by class. "Gay and Lbian BallsBerl's var homosexual tablishments beme famo for the elaborate gay balls that they would throw on regular ocsns.

One French observer of the cy around the turn of the century noted that gay balls were held often several tim a week different clubs durg the ftive season between October and Easter. Lbians sometim uld be found at the male gay balls, and lbian bars held their own balls. They would s down to eat at tabl led wh flowers; the director, drsed a "gay velvet jacket, " would greet the guts and give a short dner, the tabl would be put away, and the orchtra would beg playg waltz and other lively dancg mic while the upl would dance through the night.

" *Excerpt om the chapter "The Growth of Urban Gay Scen, Berl's Gay and Lbian Bars, " om Queer Inti and Polics Germany: A History, 1880-1945, by Clayton J. His first book was Male Homosexualy Wt Germany, 1945-1969: Between Persecutn and Freedom. Nelson Mil Theatre Prents: A Very Gay Cabaret | Nelson Mil Theatre | May 12, 2022.

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The film has s genis the largely tobgraphil 1939 novel Goodbye to Berl by Christopher Isherwood, who had travelled to the cy 1929 pursu of s vibrant gay scene. While sex between men was illegal there as was Bra, Berl beme a mag for sex tourism and hundreds of gay bars appeared throughout the cy. Anti-Semism was on the rise, Nazi ralli doubled, trebled and quadpled size and the bohemians – gay people, munists – all livg like every year was their last, were soon to be purged and imprisoned ncentratn mps alongsi the Jews (Sam Mens' 1993 theatril adaptatn of the mil end on this very grim note).

Masteroff reterpreted Isherwood's words to an iastic celebratn of everythg mp and bched, heighteng s homoeroticism and dimmg the btaly of fascism to the background. Probably the film's biggt divergence om both the book and the stage mil is that the Sally of the movie is a talented sger and enchantg performer whereas she was prevly picted as amb but largely talentls, her medcry keepg her trapped the Mnelli starred as hedonist baret star Sally Bowl – her breakout role (Cred: Getty Imag)Due to s subject matter, Cabaret was never gog to be a film that turned s gaze away om the taboos of gay sexualy and creepg fascism, but nor uld , wh the ntext of the US moral nservatism of the time, embrace the explicns of Isherwood’s wrg.

While a 21st-Century dience is more acctomed to seeg same-sex relatnships on screen, Cabaret's matter-of-fact but largely implic pictn of queerns was ground-breakg for s time, as Dr Emmie McFadn, a film studi lecturer at Sheffield Hallam Universy, tells BBC Culture: "This film was released only three years after the Stonewall Rts, which was the sgle most important event that the led to the gay liberatn movement the US. The first Pri para happened one year after Stonewall, and was the two events that ma posive portrayals of homosexualy on screen possible. "Homosexualy was one of the last taboo subjects Hollywood and so few films alt wh explic terms – Stephen TropianoMichael York, who the film played Brian Roberts, the stuffy and slightly shocked observer of chaos and Isherwood’s alter ego, also nfirms to BBC Culture that there were never any discsns about makg his character's sexualy more explic: "We thought was so strong to keep everythg implied, sometim that n be a better way of dog thgs.