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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

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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. But before they start lettg gay (and, prumably, straight or at least cur) guts grd their bedrooms, the massive venture is dog somethg lowkey flamboyant and openg s enormo zombie club, XL.

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To start, there hasn't been a new gay spot this large the cy ag, and the new XL (the old one closed 2006) seems eager to please both fans of dancg and of baret— is on 42nd Street, after all: They’ve stalled a full lightg system on the club’s vast stage, and will be able to modify the setup so that shows n be staged different ways. Beyond jt the gay thg, there are a lot of really great baret rooms New York, but none of them wh the stage stcture and lightg to do real stage shows. 27 plac sorted by traveler favorBars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)What travelers are saygDgn1010Dungannon, UK392 ntributnsSo ol to be drkg such a historil bar.

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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. While you’ll disver a lightful melange of gay thgs to do NYC at all hours of the day, there’s no nyg that gay New York alive after dark. The Stonewall InnAny list of the bt LGBTQ bars New York Cy would be remiss not to clu the landmark waterg hole largely rponsible for lnchg the morn gay rights movement: The Stonewall Inn.

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It would beg attractg gay men the 1960s, later playg a cril role durg the 1966 “Sip-In. ” Inspired by civil rights s-s and anized by the Mattache Society, the “Sip-In” was a public challenge to the state’s discrimatory policy of revokg licens of bars servg gay clientele—a precursor to Stonewall and an sential step towards legimizg the velopment of gay bars.

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