Hardware Bar | Gay Nightlife | 697 10th Ave | New York Cy

Contents:

• THE OLST GAY BAR QUEENS SECUR ITS FUTURE JACKSON HEIGHTS
• THE NEWT GAY BAR NYC
• THE BEST QUEENS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS QUEENS
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• GAY BARS QUEENS: WHERE TO PARTY JACKSON HEIGHTS
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
• THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
• THE 13 BT GAY BARS BARCELONA

THE OLST GAY BAR QUEENS SECUR ITS FUTURE JACKSON HEIGHTS

The olst gay bar Queens, Friend’s Tavern, will rema Jackson Heights at 78-11 Roosevelt Avenue, near 79th Street. Though was not immediately clear whether Friend’s was imment danger of closg whout purchasg the se, many gay bars have feared they wouldn’t be able to survive the panmic. The Newt Gay Bar NYCLoted at 34-10 30th Ave, Queens, New York NY 11103New Drag Bnch Saturday & Sunday!

The history of the LGBT muny metro Detro spans the cy’s past, but took new shape right after World War II when gay clubs began openg mostly downtown. This gay-owned Spanish tapas rtrant featur a lp of tradnal tapas, which are meant to be eaten small portns while sippg on the spot’s hoe-ma sangria or a craft cktail. This relative newer to the cy’s nightlife scene isn’t explicly a gay bar, but ’s fely LGBTQ-clive, om s management to the event programmg on hand.

Gay bars Queens tend to be outsi the gipster strongholds of Astoria and Long Island Cy (those gays are close enough to Manhattan that they're willg to mute for nightlife). Queens' gay bars are ncentrated slightly further out, the racially and culturally diverse neighborhood of Jackson Heights. The fact that Manhattan is kd-of a schlep om here has led not jt to longevy for a uple bars, but to a fully thrivg scene centered on Roosevelt sptg distance of one another you’ll fd Te Colors, Club Evolutn, Bum Bum Bar and Queens’ olst gay bar Friends’ Tavern.

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A number of gay bars Jackson Heights have a big followg Queens, but Friend’s Tavern is one of the most popular. The longt-nng gay bar the cy, this Wt Village stutn proudly displays s history.

THE BEST QUEENS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS QUEENS

Juli is one of the olst gay bars NYC. Ground zero for the 1969 rts that helped lnch the gay rights movement, Stonewall is still a rog, though very touristy, Village statn to pay tribute to the movement. This popular and cheerful gay bar occupi a roomy, thoughtfully signed space wh a backyard South Williamsburg.

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Explicly nceived as a haven for gay men, was known for s youthful clientele, celebry patrons, and notorly hedonistic vibe; beme even more of a draw wh the openg of “The Backlot, ” an adjacent performance venue that featured some of the biggt “A-list” acts of the era. “Stt Forb’ visn was to have a place for gay whe men only, ” Saltarelli tells . Built on stunng, powerful mil performanc and peppered wh surprisg and revelatory historil terpretatn – as well as edic banter and form-transcennt dience teractn – wove a narrative piled om “between the l” of monly-held history, exposg thgs like the sual bigotry at the heart of many of Ameri’s earlit popular songs and the misogyny and homophobia that has ntued to permeate s mic until the prent day; an hour was dited to each , wh Mac cked out an elaborate new era-specific stume – signed by longtime llaborator Mache Dazzle and rporatg humoro referenc to Amerin life each of the 24 s vered the show – for each one; each hour, one of 24 onstage micians would part the stage, until Mac, alone and unacpanied except for a ulele, was left alone to perform origal songs for the fal hour.

The area is also known for s ncentratn of bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots – all of which are nsired sful Islam. There’s also an LGBTQ swim team, other gay sports leagu, and even the cy hosts s own Pri Para and Ftival. Even the mayor of Long Beach is an out and proud gay man, so ’s no wonr that the cy would have s own bar scene terg to the muny.

Many nsir Mhaft to be the anchor of Long Beach’s Broadway rridor, a e long stretch between Alamos Avenue and Cherry Avenue wh the cy’s nst llectn of gay tablishments.

GAY BARS QUEENS: WHERE TO PARTY JACKSON HEIGHTS

They also have a spac outdoor pat where gay sports leagu often gather after gam on weekends. Friend’s Tavern (or Friend’s) Jackson Heights is known as the olst active gay bar Queens and has been owned sce 1989 by Eddie Valent and Casimiro Villa, bs partners and former personal partners. It has been a particularly important nightlife space for gay and bisexual Lato men, many of whom, as immigrants, found a sense of muny an openly gay environment that they may not have had their native untri.

Friend’s Tavern (popularly referred to as Friend’s) has been bs at this lotn sce 1989 and is nsired the olst operatg gay bar Queens.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

Valent, who along wh Villa also operat the nearby Club Evolutn, has lled this stretch of Roosevelt Avenue “the gay Village for Latos, ” reference to the historilly gay whe enclave of Greenwich Village Manhattan. Though Jackson Heights’ LGBT muny was predomantly whe datg back to the 1920s, many gay Hispanics moved as part of a large flux of Lato immigrants the 1970s and 1980s.

For Latos, the nightlife spac reflected the dance-driven cultur of their native untri, but also provid an openly gay atmosphere that, for many, was not available back home. Acrdg to LGBT rights activist and journalist Andrés Duque, walkg to Friend’s soon after emigratg om Colombia 1993 and seeg Colombian men kissg and dancg together was “a revelatn of [his] life and [his] gay life.

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” Others also relled the signifince of beg around people wh shared backgrounds — Lato, immigrant, and LGBT — which fostered a sense of muny, particularly for those who moved to New York whout their fai or were forced to be more closeted their homeland (though gay bars did sometim exist urban areas) or their immigrant muni here.

Two days after the June 12, 2016 mass shootg at the gay nightclub Pulse, Orlando, Florida, which the majory of the victims were Hispanic (and nearly half were Puerto Rin), Valent helped anize an English- and Spanish-language vigil outsi Club Evolutn that ntued along Roosevelt Avenue to Friend’s and Te Colors, another gay Lato bar. Valent, who knew some of the victims om when they lived Jackson Heights and equented Friend’s and other area bars, spoke about the importance of gay nightlife spac as safe havens:. There are a lot of [LGBT] people who e om other untri, and they leave primarily bee of the fact that there’s so much prejudice and homophobia their untri.

S., the first thg they do is look for a bs that’s gay, more likely a bar or a club, where they n make their first iends. While several newer gay Lato bars operate on and around Roosevelt Avenue, former bars and clubs clu the Love Boat, at 77-02 Broadway Elmhurst; Club Llamarada (pronounced “Yamarada”), a popular dance spot at 82-20 Baxter Avenue Elmhurst; and Lucho’s Place, at 38-19 69th Street Woodsi. As wh Friend’s, the bars were also equented by non-Lato gay and bisexual men om elsewhere the cy and Long Island wh an tert the Lato bar scene.

THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC

Before we prent you wh our list of bt gay bars Philalphia, a few tertg facts about the lol LGBTQ scene: almost every LGBTQ-centric statn the cy is found Gayborhood, an enclave Center Cy Philalphia that has quickly bee one of the most regnize neighborhoods town. Montrose is the unofficial “gayborhood” of Hoton, and has been at the nex of queer culture Hoton, as well as the state at large, sce the ’60s.

JR's Bar & GrillMontroseEveryone remembers their first gay-bar experience, and if you live Hoton, was likely at JR’s.

RIPCORDMontroseIf Tom of Fland is your sired gay-bar athetic, then look no further than RIPCORD. Tony's Corner PocketFourth WardTony’s Corner Pocket is the Hoton gay-bar equivalent of Lola’s Depot, an analogy that should make perfect sense to anyone who lik their bars on the dive-y si.

THE 13 BT GAY BARS BARCELONA

Crocker Bar’s nvenient lotn the heart of the cy’s gayborhood also provis patrons wh easy accs to several of the area’s other great LGBTQ+ bars. Gee Country Sports BarMontroseEvery cy needs a gay wboy bar, and Hoton is fortunate enough to have Gee Country Sports Bar. Gee’s rabow flag-adorned vered pat is also one of the bt plac the neighborhood to people-watch sce borrs Fairview, which serv as the ma pestrian thoroughfare for the gayborhood.

Centrally posned midtown Manhattan jt mut om Tim Square, the Theater District and Rtrant Row, the gay-owned and operated HARDWARE shows talent om the most spectacularly entertag drag queens -- both lol and guts om all over the untry -- and some of the bt DJ's NYC. Sadly, that joy mt now be forever tempered by the knowledge that Koko, whose life sh so brightly om the screen, has been lost to – who, though thori say there is no evince her ath was motivated by homophobia or transphobia, is neverthels yet another victim of the eply embedd hate and vlence that hnts our culture and mak movi like this one seem so very, very prec.