A Year Gay Bars | The New Yorker

Contents:

• THE BT GAY BARS AT, TEXAS
• A YEAR GAY BARS
• TOP 5 GAY BARS NYC'S EAST VILLAGE

THE BT GAY BARS AT, TEXAS

So e over wh your fierct ensembl and a qut to spread love—no matter your orientatn, here are the bt gay bars At.

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A YEAR GAY BARS

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Multi-level gay bar wh three differently themed rooms, om a banquette-stuffed lounge for dg and mglg, a simple but elegant bar, and a third for dancg and cisg. Country & Wtern-styled saloon for the gay and lbian crowd Hell's Kchen.

TOP 5 GAY BARS NYC'S EAST VILLAGE

The first gay bar that I passed through this year was Dallas, Texas. On my first eveng town, after pretendg to wre but mostly cryg over K-dramas, I head out to Oak Lawn, the cy’s gayborhood. The siwalks were dimly l, and I glid om light to light through the eply balmy eveng, and beyond the pat I found a panmic-era simulacm of a Texas gay bar’s ual weekday crowd: a few (whe) guys watchg sports on their phon, a (whe) man talkg to the bartenr, alongsi a handful of skny (whe) dus lookg to get laid.