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• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• XL, A GIANT GAY CLUB IN THE OUT NYC GAYTEL, OPENS TONIGHT
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• THE 15 BT GAY BARS NYC TO CHECK OUT

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

ADVERTISEMENTBoî Fenstermacher for The New York TimMarch 7, 2012IT’S been a while sce New York weled a large new gay venue to s club roster.

In late January, a triumvirate of gay night-life doyens — John Blair, Beto Sutter and a relative newer, Brandon Voss — opened XL at the far end of Wt 42nd Street. It is a verable one-stop shop for gay men of var bookg a different party, D. And is suated at the jt opened “gay urban rort” OUT NYC, so that even after jad New Yorkers thk has lost s lter, there will still be plenty of tourists SPACE Not que verno enough to be a mega-club but too big to be jt a bar, the jet-black space has a lounge up ont, wh tabl that are cleared away for late-night dancg.

After years of work, New York's gay hotel/rort/nightclub The Out NYC is almost ready.

XL, A GIANT GAY CLUB IN THE OUT NYC GAYTEL, OPENS TONIGHT

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