The Starle Lounge, a hot spot that has been a quiet part of Brooklyn’s gay history sce 1970, may be forced to close by the buildg’s management.
Contents:
- LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN
- BROOKLYN GAY BAR THAT OPENED 1962 HIGHLIGHTED DOCUMENTARY
- PROPERTY SALE MIGHT DOOM BROOKLYN'S OLST GAY BAR
- DOCUMENTARY FEATURG DEFUNCT CROWN HEIGHTS GAY BAR PREMIER TODAY
- 13 BT GAY BARS IN BROOKLYN, NY
LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN
Macri Park – gay bar Williamsburg. While a lot of the NYC gay nightlife is over Manhattan, Brooklyn still has a stronghold on the queer nightlife. Brooklyn’s most popular gay bar is Metropolan—a dive bar wh events all week long and drag shows jt about every night (and a great happy hour special).
Nearby, The Rosemont is a newer gay bar that rarely charg a ver fee and feels a lot more sual and fortable than the scene-y Metro. HARDER gay party (monthly) Brooklyn.
BROOKLYN GAY BAR THAT OPENED 1962 HIGHLIGHTED DOCUMENTARY
Further out Brooklyn, the gay club 3 Dollar Bill hosts a variety of techno queer parti and ocsnal big-ticket events. Brand Saloon gay bar Prospect Heights. From The Tillary, you n easily reach the LGBTQ nightlife both Park Slope (Good Judy’s, Gger’s), the gay bars Crown Heights & Bed-Stuy, and the bigger gay clubs Williamsburg.
PROPERTY SALE MIGHT DOOM BROOKLYN'S OLST GAY BAR
There’s that many ol and hip and queer thgs to do Brooklyn, ’s what mak New York Cy’s bt gay borough. CROWN HEIGHTS — Four years after the forced closg of the spot that claims to be the olst gay bar Brooklyn, two filmmakers are brgg the story of the Starle Lounge to the big on Bergen Street at Nostrand Avenue om 1962 to 2010, the Starle Lounge was the “bedrock” of Crown Heights, said Kate Kunath, -director of “We Came to Sweat, ” a documentary about the bar’s history and s closure that will but at the NewFt film ftival on Friday. Brooklyn's olst gay bar may be forced to close followg the sale of s Crown Heights buildg.
The Starlight Lounge — which also claims to be the cy's first black-owned gay bar — might be evicted bee the new owner of the property apparently wants the buildg "empty. "The Starle Lounge has been a Crown Heights fixture sce the 1960s, servg gays and non-gays.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURG DEFUNCT CROWN HEIGHTS GAY BAR PREMIER TODAY
Why shouldn’t there be a bar Crown Heights that is popular wh whe and black, gay and straight people, where gentrifiers and lols wh long leage drk the special punch next to one another on bar stools, where young, betiful club typ sweat out to hoe mic alongsi 50-somethg veteran party anizers and standard-issue retire who happen to live down the block? The Starle Lounge, a hot spot that has been a quiet part of Brooklyn’s gay history sce the early 1970s, seems sted to close s doors now that the new management of s buildg is mandg that the bar vate to make way for urgent repairs. Back then, was one of the few gay-iendly bars the neighborhood.
13 BT GAY BARS IN BROOKLYN, NY
” Nowadays, the Starle is not exclively a gay bar; s personaly chang wh the time of day and week. Karaoke night on Thursdays draws a mixed-race crowd of straight and gay patrons. M., the bar fills wh a mostly gay clientele, and by 2 a.
“It’s a place I n e and not be bothered by homophobic people, ” said Timothy Yat, a young publicist stg at the bar, who add that he had been tnted wh gay slurs the neighborhood. And ’s not jt a safe place for gay people; ’s a safe place perd. Revered by many as Brooklyn’s olst gay bar, the now funct Starle Lounge Crown Heights is the subject of a documentary that will premiere at the NewFt film ftival on Friday.