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- HARLEM’S BLACK, GAY BARS ARE THRIVG THE MIDDLE OF A PANMIC
- HARLEM'S FIRST GAY, BLACK OWNED BS STGGL TO STAY AFLOAT
- GAY NEW YORK CY
- A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NEW YORK CY'S GAY & QUEER BARS
HARLEM’S BLACK, GAY BARS ARE THRIVG THE MIDDLE OF A PANMIC
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“What I love about Black people, there’s a rilience , and if you’re Black and gay, ’s even stronger, ” he explaed. At plac like Alibi, they n feel at down the street om Alibi — a quick, five-mute walk so close that hoppg a r would feel like a waste of gas — is Lambda Lounge, the neighborhood’s only other Black-owned gay bar. “I really wanted the Black muny to have good optns, to not only have to go to Chelsea for a gay bar.
HARLEM'S FIRST GAY, BLACK OWNED BS STGGL TO STAY AFLOAT
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We have a lol gay bar! ”Though the gradual shift om summer’s warmth to wter’s chill has put an end to that specific sense of outdoor mararie, Alibi and Lambda still offer a wele change of pace om the gay bars of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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Not only are Mko, Hugh, and Solomon an spiratn for lnchg succsful bs as out and proud Black gay men, but what they’ve created — a safe space for queer people a neighborhood not typilly known for embracg s LGBTQ+ populatn — has life-changg agre. I jt knew that if Alibi had closed down, was gog to be the same script, the same story: Oh, another gay, Black bs nnot survive. "While we’ll never know whether Lambda would have opened if Alibi had shut down, we do know that havg two gay, Black-owned bs is always better than one.
A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NEW YORK CY'S GAY & QUEER BARS
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“I feel honored to be a part of our queer history, ” Hugh said when asked about this new gayborhood. In se you thought every penntly-owned gay bar had shut s doors due to Covid, meet the persistent and visnary married uple behd Lambda Lounge — Harlem’s only Ain Amerin owned LGBTQ lounge. Charl Hugh and Richard Solomon are swched on and self-created Black entreprenrs who are more than well aware of the importance of LGBTQ-owned nightlife spac, LGBTQ spac that wele people of lor, and Black-owned LGBTQ all, they me to each other's orb at Chi Chi's — a Wt Village gay bar on historic Christoper Street that was welg of Black men a way which wasn't and still isn't mon the Village and many of our "gay goln .
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But both agreed that a nightclub held a certa attractn for gay men as a "home away om home. The bar had prevly been 95% gay male but they've seen an crease lbians, trans folks, and even some straight women.