Gay History: Rememberg NYC's "Ice Palace 57" Gay Dis (1977 - 1985)

Contents:

• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• BAR GAY EN NUEVA YORK
• NEW YORK CY GAY DANCE CLUBS
• LOST GAY NYC: REMEMBERG CRIS DIS
• GAY HISTORY: REMEMBERG NYC’S “ICE PALACE 57” GAY DIS (1977 – 1985)
• THE 10 MOST FAB GAY DANCE PARTI (WH ACTUAL GOOD MIC) NORTH AMERI

THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY

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.

“Straight people were clumsy and had no rhythm, whereas gay men were right on.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

Manco’s crowd, which clud many gay men of lor, bellowed out the chos, refigurg the song’s addrsee as a new kd of Shore Commissn, ‘Free Man’ (1975)D. -led dance spac that were exclive to gay men — ually whe, middle-class gay men — started to open Manhattan late 1972.

BAR GAY EN NUEVA YORK

Valento, ‘I Was Born This Way’ (1975)The first rerd to feature lyrics about beg an out-and-proud gay man me om the mil performer Charl “Valento” Harris, who released “I Was Born This Way” as an apparently one-off release on Gaiee. “I’m happy, I’m reee and I’m gay, ” the sger hollers over soulful stmentatn. ” “The lyrics were perfect, ” she told me Summer, ‘I Feel Love’ (1977)Gay male dance crowds were drawn to rerdgs that featured Black female volists, often intifyg wh their emotnal exprsivens and strength the face of adversy, often to the surprise of the artists, who were ually gospel-traed.

A pneerg reprentative, Gloria Gaynor was crowned the first queen of dis by gay D.

Patrick Cowley, ‘Mutant Man’ (1982)Patrick Cowley fed his reputatn as one of the world’s most progrsive synthizer players durg rerdgs wh the dis pneer Sylvter, cludg “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), ” perhaps the ultimate gay male anthem.

NEW YORK CY GAY DANCE CLUBS

”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn D, Page 5 of the New York edn wh the headle: Sp Some Gay Dis. 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.

LOST GAY NYC: REMEMBERG CRIS DIS

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. “The gays open the world of eedom.

GAY HISTORY: REMEMBERG NYC’S “ICE PALACE 57” GAY DIS (1977 – 1985)

The gays always ph thgs.

THE 10 MOST FAB GAY DANCE PARTI (WH ACTUAL GOOD MIC) NORTH AMERI

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.