One of New York Cy's newt gay bars has had a brick thrown at s ont wdow four tim recent weeks, s owner says.
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- POP: ODYSSEY WH DJ FREDDIE COSMO
- 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’
- NYPD SEEKS SPECT STRG OF ATTACKS ON HELL’S KCHEN GAY BAR
- BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME
POP: ODYSSEY WH DJ FREDDIE COSMO
VERS – a gay bar New York Cy – has been the target of an anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime for the fourth time a month. * vers gay bar *
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A MANHATTAN GAY BAR WAS VANDALIZED THREE TIM LAST WEEK
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. 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”.
NEW YORK CY GAY BAR ATTACKED FOR FOURTH TIME A MONTH: ‘WE N NOT STAND FOR THIS’
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.
NYPD SEEKS SPECT STRG OF ATTACKS ON HELL’S KCHEN GAY BAR
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. “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.
VERS – a gay bar New York Cy – has been the target of an anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime for the fourth time a month as Ameri se an “embolned anti-gay, anti-trans rurgence”.
DeParola said his bar is safe but said he feels the untry is a moment of “embolned anti-gay, anti-trans rurgence”. “A well-known gay bar on Manhattan’s wt si has been attacked repeatedly recent weeks.
BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME
NYPD has released new vio of the man acced of throwg a brick at a Hell’s Kchen gay bar 3 tim jt the last week. Acrdg to the NYPD Hate Crim Dashboard, between 1 January 2022 to 30 September 2022, 66 arrts were ma relatn to bias agast gay men.
The search for a spect thori believe might be rponsible for a strg of attacks on a Manhattan gay bar is rampg up wh the NYPD releasg imag and footage of the spect Monday. Police are seekg a spect a strg of attacks on a gay bar Manhattan. “It feels like yet another maniftatn of hate agast our muny, ” DeParola said of the recent attacks on his gay bar.