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• GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS NEW YORK CY
• STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• THE BT GAY BARS HELL'S KCHEN
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• MOSW GAY BARS
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

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”But all those plac he so fondly remembers are long closed, as are Harvt, Orb’s and several others listed an article, headled “Rtrants That Roll Out the Wele Mat for Gay Ders, ” that ran this newspaper 27 years ago. The panmic h the untry’s urban gay rtrants pecially hard, said Jt Nelson, the print of the Natnal LGBT Chamber of Commerce. MeMe’s Der, a popular queer rtrant Brooklyn, permanently closed November, cg shutdown measur and a lack of ernment rtrants, like gay bars, are also facg cris of inty and purpose a time that is many ways more welg than the past, when gay people sought out gay rtrants bee they offered safety and acceptance that uldn’t be found elsewhere.

Gay men equented plac like Orphan Andy’s, a mpy der om the same that’s still bs the Castro neighborhood of San Francis. Atlanta had Waterworks, which a 1992 newsletter for the group Black and Whe Men Together lled the cy’s “only Black-owned gay rtrant. And shiftg nceptns of sexualy and genr extend beyond what words like gay, lbian, male or female n acmodate.

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“Many of the more privileged young queer people have grown up wh cln, so they don’t feel the need to be a place where you’re sheltered om heterosexism, ” said Julie Podmore, an urban geographer at Conrdia Universy may be the se New York Cy, where gay rtrants are gog the way of dosrs (if not yet extct — Elmo and other spots are still keepg their gay fan base fed) elsewhere the untry, many gay rtrants are thrivg — as treasured lol bs, facto muny centers, refug om ntug anti-queer vlence and potential paths forward for a rtrant dtry a recent Saturday night the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washgton, Annie’s Paramount Steak Hoe was by, and was gay. Three 20-somethg gay men shared i.

Katas says nobody her fay is gay, yet Annie’s surely is. That seed was planted by her great-nt Annie was beyond supportive of the gay muny and beme, for many of the rtrant’s racially diverse ders, a mother figure before her ath 2013. Katas said, “people are g back wh tears their ey” bee they “missed beg a space where they’re not the only gay people.

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”Derr Andra and Zack Sands weren’t lookg for a gay rtrant when they moved to Dupont Circle four years ago.

”For Steve Herman, 79, who has eaten at Annie’s sce 1976, that reason is the fact that Dupont Circle isn’t as gay as once was.

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“I thk ’s a great thg that gay people are more mastream and fortable gog other plac, ” he said. ” It sells shirts emblazoned wh the words “Tastg Good” and “Tastg Gay.

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”“If there’s a way food is queer, ’s beg non-homogeno, beg lateral and multiple, ” Mx. ”The historian Gee Chncey trac gay eatg plac New York Cy back to the cheap urban dg halls that tered to unmarried workers the late 19th century.

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In the 1920s and ’30s, the police often raid feterias like Horn & Hardart, where gay men gathered to “ridicule the domant culture that ridiculed them, and nstct an alternative culture, ” as Mr.

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Chncey wr his book “Gay New York. People phed back agast a police roundup by g ffee and doughnuts as the 1980s, Florent was a refuge for gay New Yorkers durg the worst years of AIDS.

” He tried to say more, but choked Green Bay, Wis., Napale Lounge and Grille looks as gay as a chee curd. When straight upl brg children to the unpretent brick buildg for chicken tenrs on weekends, the place feels more like an Applebee’s than the almost 40, Naps, as regulars ll , is the olst gay bar and rtrant Green Bay, acrdg to Arnold Penrgast, 61, who has owned wh his hband, Stacy Dotel, 56, sce 2012. Lols gather for chary drag shows and to watch Packers gam over baskets of fat and crispy beer-battered d bee ’s one of the few gay optns town.

”“If the panmic tght anythg, ’s that nnectg digally is not enough, ” particularly for workg-class gay people, he said, like those at Naps. Moudi Sbey found the Mederranean rtrant 2017 wh Derek Kchen, then his hband, who was elected to the Utah State Senate a year Sbey, 33, prefers to ll Laziz a queer, not gay, rtrant to signal “that we are clive love. Jt a few blocks om the cha rtrants dottg Tim Square, The Spot is one of Manhattan’s newt gay bars, recently opened by the owners of Hell’s Kchen mastay Rise Bar.

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No NYC gay bar list would be plete whout a mentn of the Stonewall Inn.