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Contents:

• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
• THE BT GAY CLUBS MIAMI FOR A NIGHT OUT WH THE BOYS
• IT TAK A VILLAGE, PEOPLE: PRERVG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY DIS HISTORY
• A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S
• THE LAST DAYS OF GAY DIS
• THE GAY DIS
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY

27 plac sorted by traveler favorBars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)What travelers are saygDgn1010Dungannon, UK392 ntributnsSo ol to be drkg such a historil bar. Flamg Saddl is the perfect mix of great drks, Amerina, gay culture and cute bar high energy gay bar rais the roof wh their bar top dancg bartenrs.

I went to a few gay bars, and by far this was the bt place to dance and the mic was the bt here, varied, and not too much dance mic like you got your head bangg a fish bowl! If you have gay iends like me, brg them there, you will have the bt night out!

There are plenty of gay bars up and down 9th ave and there's no reason to spend money at a place that will treat you like total trash, threaten you, and be unnecsarily belligerent and make you feel unsafe jt bee they're on some kd of power trip. Once home to a rabow of LGBTQ-iendly loung, bars and clubs, many of Miami’s most pendable gay clubs like Magnum, Mova and Sre are sadly no more.

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We might be experiencg an extend drought of gay clubs and bars Miami, but there’s plenty of actn to be had if you know where to fd . So, whout further adi: Our roundup of the bt gay clubs Miami right now. Dis and Gay Culture the 1970s.

The flamboyant electronic sound of San Francis’s dancefloors soundtracked gay liberatn the '70s and '80s, even as s muny faced cimatn as a rult of the the AIDS crisis. Marke Bichke tak a ep dive to the efforts beg ma to prerve ephemera of the cy's pneerg scene, and speaks to the San Francis Dis Prervatn Society, Dark Entri' Josh Cheon and milogist Louis Neibur about his prehensive new book, Menergy: San Francis’s Gay Dis Sound.

Wt Hollywood has long been the rabow-draped pal of the gay muny Los Angel, but an article for KCET, cy planner Jam Rojas scrib the diverse and somewhat unr-the-radar gay dis circu of 1970s Hollywood.

THE BT GAY CLUBS MIAMI FOR A NIGHT OUT WH THE BOYS

The popular dis formed rponse to prejudice wh the gay muny, as one of s founrs told LA Weekly 2015.

IT TAK A VILLAGE, PEOPLE: PRERVG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY DIS HISTORY

He scrib the rtrant and popular pickup spot as exemplifyg the, "quiet world of mastream gay whe culture. " In Lillian Farman and Stuart Timmons’s Gay LA, the thors scribe how rtrant staff ed to splash the bathroom floors wh ammonia—the smell enuragg patrons not to lger longer than necsary. [KCET] Developers Will Save Parts of Historic Circ Dis But Raze Everythg Else [Curbed LA] Mappg Los Angel's Groundbreakg Role LGBT History [Curbed LA] The Past and Future of Three of LA's Historic But Threatened Gay Nightclubs [Curbed LA].

The women’s rights movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the gay rights movement were all full swg. Behd velvet rop, blacks, Latos, and wh, women and men, rich and poor, gays and straights were enuraged to wear whatever they wanted, kiss whoever they wanted and — of urse — dance however they wanted. Dis’s roots gay activism are often fotten today.

The movement really began wh the Stonewall Rts of 1969, the first major cint which gay men took a llective and forceful stand agast police btaly. “If you don’t have the gays you wouldn’t have the culture, ” Joey Arias, a gay performg artist told the mm.

A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S

“The gays open the world of eedom. The gays always ph thgs.

THE LAST DAYS OF GAY DIS

DJs at the clubs began playg mic created by gay men, openly sexual women, and black artists. Donna Summer simulated asms songs and the Village People would flg off police uniforms, nstctn hats, and wboy outfs a celebratn of gay culture.

THE GAY DIS

The dis movement, as origally was, end the ’80s, as the AIDS epimic stormed through the gay muny and fear settled over the formerly jubilant clubs.

But vtig rema: Velvet rop still part for the chict outf, style mavens still fill gay clubs and paras, and mic trends ntue to transcend race and sexualy. All the ntours of a new dis boom are place, but there’s somethg missg, somethg that n only be nveyed through the smell of poppers and the sweat off a stranger’s body–some remr that the soul of dis, after all, was gay.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

The only gay character Wh Stillman’s Last Days of Dis isn’t gay. He’s a hetero yuppie who embrac an ocsnal gay inty to get out of msy straight relatnships. But ’s also an advertent nod to a major part of the dis experience: straight people adoptg a gay persona, if only to f to a i that was qutsentially gay.

If your only knowledge of dis om retrospectiv like VH1’s recent Stud 54 documentary, you might nclu that gays were a lorful accsory to an otherwise straight fact, Stud was an exclive versn of the pansexual playland that had been built gay venu like 12 Wt, The 10th Floor, and the legendary Loft. Here, gay sensibily met the Amerin dream and produced what novelist Andrew Holleran lled the “strange mocracy” of the dance.

Even s time, this visn of a tribal, transcennt gayns that overwhelmed sexual tegori was impossible to rencile wh mastream culture.

ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS

The only way to reprent the ecstatic power of dis was to -gay . The Hollywood dis of that era did not remble Paradise Garage, where the fluid tangle of gay bodi wove a seamls sexual web.