VERS – a gay bar New York Cy – has been the target of an anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime for the fourth time a month.
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- A MANHATTAN GAY BAR WAS VANDALIZED THREE TIM LAST WEEK
- NEW YORK CY GAY BAR ATTACKED FOR FOURTH TIME A MONTH: ‘WE N NOT STAND FOR THIS’
A MANHATTAN GAY BAR WAS VANDALIZED THREE TIM LAST WEEK
It’s been a tratg time for DeParola, who had hoped to open time for this weekend’s PRIDE ftivi, which he lls “the Black Friday of gay culture”. The bar which has taken over the space that prevly hoed the popular Taladwat Thai rtrant, is a cheekily named o to gay inty (“’s a wk and a nod to those who know, ” said DeParola) that’s foced as much on curated craft cktails and elevated snacks as is on providg a versatile variety of nightly entertament.
In addn to drawg on his prr experience workg for Food and We Magaze, he lled upon the experts his life — his boyiend Aidan Wynn Davis, a vol ach who prevly worked a Michel-starred rtrant, his iend Andy Baraghani, former Bon Appét food edor, and his iend and archect Douglas Kane, to band together and dream up a new kd of gay social club. Acrdg to Bloomberg, by 2021 15 percent of US gay bars closed due to panmic-related issu — makg the openg of new spots like VERS and the reopeng of beloved hangouts like Boxers and the 9th Avenue Saloon cril to reengagg the Wt Si’s — and the cy’s — nightlife scene.
NEW YORK CY GAY BAR ATTACKED FOR FOURTH TIME A MONTH: ‘WE N NOT STAND FOR THIS’
“Spac are no longer jt a ‘gay men’s bar’ or a ‘lbian bar’ — there’s a real versatily velopg the broar queer muny that I believe is the future of how we’ll gather together. Someone threw a brick through the wdow at Vers, a gay bar Hell’s Kchen, three tim last week, owner David DeParola tells Gothamist. Dpe claimg to report each cint to the NYPD’s Hate Crim Task Force, the Vers owner tells Gothamist he felt the rponse was allegedly dismissive: “I said, ‘We uld be targeted bee we’re a gay bar, ’” the owner shared wh Gothamist.