A Gui To NYC's Gay Bars - Gothamist

Contents:

• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK
• NYC LNCH PROGRAM TO RE-EXAME GAY BAR DGGG AND HOMICI S
• NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
• GAY NEW YORK
• NEW YORK CY GAY CISE CLUBS
• A GUI TO NYC'S GAY BARS
• BT GAY BARS IN NEW YORK CY
• JO THE Q — FOUR NEW GAY VENU LE UP TO OPEN HELL’S KCHEN
• HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

29 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. Delightful ambiance and great mic - I remend all gay women checkg out this amazg ltle bar Park Slope.

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

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

Though Marie’s Crisis don’t explicly intify as a gay bar, the beloved Wt Village hnt has been a queer haven sce the late 1800s.

New York's Lost Gay BarsWe've known for many years that too many of our cherished gay bars and clubs are shutterg, fallg victim to risg rents and the ubiquy of apps like Grdr and Scff.

There's a walkg tour New York to memorate beloved gay bars and clubs that have closed down. Others say the mastream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people has ma queer spac iends meet for drks at The Bh BhwickLaila Annmarie Stevens for GothamistThe closure of Mattson’s favore gay bar Cleveland 2013 prompted him to vis more than 250 LGBTQ+ venu natnwi search of answers to the qutn posed by the tle of his new book: “Who Needs Gay Bars?

NYC LNCH PROGRAM TO RE-EXAME GAY BAR DGGG AND HOMICI S

And bars terg to lbians and people of lor, and those centerg on certa kks, have closed at a faster rate than bars for gay of early 2021, only three wily known lbian bars were open New York Cy: Henrietta Hudson, Cubbyhole and Gger's Bar.

The event triggered the start of the gay liberatn the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg 2009, New York Cy officials promoted the cy as an LGBTQ+ tourist statn. ”Juli’, a two-mute walk away om Stonewall, is one of the olst ntuoly n gay bars New York Cy.

NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN

In 1966, three years before the Stonewall uprisg, three young men 1966 went to have a drk at Juli’ and changed ’, a two-mute walk away om Stonewall, is one of the olst ntuoly n gay bars New York of New York Landmarks Prervatn CommissnThe men were members of the untry’s earlit gay rights group, the Mattache Society. They challenged the New York State Liquor Authory's policy that a bar uld have s liquor license revoked if staff knowgly served “homosexuals. Giekg says rints and tourists alike want to vis plac like Stonewall and Juli’ bee they want to be a part of that history – to “experience what means to be gay, ” he said.

“Where would you fd other gay people? You go to a gay bar, you go to a gay neighborhood, ” he said. Authori later said their aths were the rult of a dg-duced robbery scheme that volved at least 16 victims, many of them men visg gay bars.

GAY NEW YORK

In December 2021, Tyler Burt reported to police that he was robbed of thoands of dollars after visg a gay bar Manhattan’s East Village. ”A 48-year-old Manhattan rint who reported to the police he was robbed after visg a Chelsea gay leather bar October, said he was glad that thori are re-examg old s, but acced them of not dog enough to warn New Yorkers of the ongog danger. Sewell and Manhattan District Attorney Alv Bragg, held a prs nference on the crime pattern, which largely targeted men at gay prs nference me a day after the fal spect the rg was arrted, police said.

NEW YORK CY GAY CISE CLUBS

He add that the cy’s Office of Nightlife held a prs nference wh Hell’s Kchen bar owners June 2022 to promote nightlife safety tips and distributed fliers on safety to var neighborhoods around the NYPD did not return a requt for ment regardg the timg of the the April news nference, Sewell phed back when asked by NBC News whether tectiv were ially dismissive bee the victims were gay.

Authori have prevly said that, although most of the victims were gay men, the spects the cywi dg-duced robbery scheme were motivated by fancial ga and not bee of their sexual orientatn. The New York Cy Police Department nfirmed Monday that is vtigatg a strg of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay men earlier this year shortly after they left gay bars Manhattan's Hell's Kchen neighborhood. His fay prevly told NBC News that approximately $20, 000 had been draed om his bank acunts and that they believed he was Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary / Fay photoAbout a month later, Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was found ad after he and two unintified men left another popular Hell's Kchen gay bar, the Q.

A GUI TO NYC'S GAY BARS

The Blue Whale is a popular Fire Island gay bar, suated Fire Island P, home to much of the area's bt gay nightlife. A favore amongst lols, The Blue Whale is an inic part of Fire Island's lively gay scene. A New York gay stutn.

Eagle NYC is a long-nng gay cise & fetish club for men who're lookg to meet, dance, cise and play wh other men. Navigatg New York Cy's gay nightlife scene n bee a part time job.

BT GAY BARS IN NEW YORK CY

Bottom le: I've been workg hard at this rearch for most of my (almost) adult, my reviews of some notable NYC gay bars. I vised as many plac as I uld by neighborhood and clud optns om all of the boroughs except the Bronx, which appears not to have a sgle gay bar.

Native New Yorker Eddie Gog talks about some of his favore gay bars the cy; be sure to leave yours the ments. The bartenrs will spend their time tellg you how "straight" they are— don't matter to me if you're gay or straight as long as you're terted gettg me a drk. : NoGym Sportsbar is loted at 167 8th Avenue, (212) 337-2439; Lounge: G Lounge was one of my first regular hot spots when I started feelg out the gay scene about 10 years ago.

JO THE Q — FOUR NEW GAY VENU LE UP TO OPEN HELL’S KCHEN

Juli': Deemed New York's olst gay bar, as well as Greenwich Village's olst bar, Juli' is another hnt that has figured out. : NoJuli' is loted at 159 Wt 10th Street, (212) 243-1928; Hangar: For the most ethnilly mixed crowd that I've seen at a gay bar, The Hangar tak the ke. Though they don't operate full-time as a gay bar, lots of NJ gays drive over the bridge to h up this Staten Island hotspot; as far as I know 's the only gay or gay-iendly bar on the Island.

The spac, whether always gay iendly or only durg certa tim of the day or week, gave LGBT people the eedom to be themselv a way they ually uld not be their personal or profsnal liv.

HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

Tryg to fd a new bar hangout but want to fd somethg that's unique, fun, and gay iendly?

Read below for the five bt gay bars New York Cy. The Out NYC is one of the hippt gay bars the Big Apple. It n be found the Midtown/Hell's Kchen sectn of Manhattan and is welg to both gay and straight people.