Many gay men New York are lookg for alternative ways to socialize. A look at the surprisg revival of the kntg circle.
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TRADG THE NOISY GAY BAR SCENE FOR THE KNTG CIRCLE
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SF GAY HISTORY
Boria tried to remember the name of a gay bar Hell’s Kchen and asked the seven men stg at the table wh him if they knew. “The social teractn is pricels, ” he up wh awkward small talk and impersonal teractns at bars, some gay men New York are lookg for alternative ways to nnect. You uldn’t ll a kntg explosn, exactly, but small pockets — at yarn shops, apartments and gay bars throughout the cy — a new kd of kntg circle is emergg.
The men have discsed their g out stori and their childhood experienc beg gay, topics that don’t tend to arise bars. The origal Toad Hall, a Castro neighborhood gay bar the 1970s.
THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
Toad Hall opened on May 28, 1971, Memorial Day weekend, by four gay men and a woman – Ron Est and David Monroe of the Ln’s Pub, a gay “sweater” bar at Sacramento and Divisaro that opened 1969, wh Tom Sanford and Sam Hall, along wh the fancial support of Marjorie Deremer, a well-off senr cizen who passed away 2000.
It was one of four gay bars that year to jo the three other gay bars that already existed the Castro. (The Ln’s Pub still exists, but gradually stopped beg a gay bar sometime the early 2000s.