Patrons of NYC gay bar pacated and robbed of thoands via facial regnn on their phon

Contents:

• HOW 'THE EAGLE' BEME ONE OF THE MOST REGNIZED GAY BAR NAM
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• PATRONS OF NYC GAY BAR PACATED AND ROBBED OF THOANDS VIA FACIAL REGNN ON THEIR PHON
• NYPD VTIGAT ANOTHER VICTIM NNECTN TO GAY BAR DGGG SCHEME, POLICE SOURC SAY
• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• EAGLE LEATHER AND LEVI GAY BAR GUI

HOW 'THE EAGLE' BEME ONE OF THE MOST REGNIZED GAY BAR NAM

The popular gay leather bar boasted a diverse group of patrons: men of all ag, a uple of women, people of lor, body typ that spanned the gamut, guys leather harns and some men simply wearg jeans and a The Eagle NYC is not a anchise, is one of dozens of gay bars across the U. It’s part of a tradn that go back Eagle NYC 2018 ntt petorsSkywrg MediaThe History of ‘The Eagle’In 1970, the first gay Eagle bar was started after an old longshoreman’s pub New York Cy, Eagle Open Kchen, closed down. The spot quickly beme a popular spot for tradnally mascule-prentg gay men and hosted meetgs for biker groups and sports the homophobia that was not unmon the ‘70s, gay men found a rpe and place of fort at The Eagle’s Nt — was a safe space before the term “safe space” was the vernacular.

“At the time, I didn’t unrstand that there were men like me that had very mascule tras but were gay, ” Whaker, 10 years later, Whaker is out, proud and fully immersed the “Eagle muny. “Back the ‘70s and ‘80s, you uld jt open a gay bar wh black walls and hang a sign out the door, and would be packed, bee was a place gay people uld go and feel fortable, ” Chuck Kg, who bought and reopened the 10, 000-square-foot Baltimore Eagle Febary, told NBC News.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

”And as more and more gay bars reportedly close across the U. Three men who vised a New York Cy gay bar were robbed of thoands of dollars g facial regnn accs on their phon, the New York Police Department nfirmed on three men, who were their late 30s and 40s, vised a Chelsea gay leather bar, The Eagle NYC, on separate nights October and November and were each robbed of $1, 000 to $5, 000, acrdg to the NYPD’s puty missner of public rmatn.

”The police spokperson said the cints at The Eagle NYC and Hotel Chantelle are not related to any other pattern of robberi happeng the recent robberi bear a remblance to the s, reported by NBC News November, of Jul Ramirez, 25, a social worker, and John Umberger, 33, a polil nsultant, who were targeted siar fashn and suffered unexplaed the separate evengs of their aths, Ramirez and Umberger were seen leavg New York Cy gay bars wh groups of men before their bank acunts were draed of thoands of dollars g facial regnn accs to their phon, acrdg to their fay members. The New York Cy Police Department is vtigatg another dg-duced robbery nnectn wh a crimal scheme — largely targetg men visg gay bars — that has left at least two men ad, police sourc say.

Michael, a 30-year-old gay man, is the most recent of at least 16 victims. On March 25, Michael said, he was dgged and robbed of roughly $5, 000 after visg The Eagle NYC, a gay bar Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, where at least three siar cints had been prevly reported.

PATRONS OF NYC GAY BAR PACATED AND ROBBED OF THOANDS VIA FACIAL REGNN ON THEIR PHON

”Authori have prevly stated that, although most of the victims the scheme are gay men, they were targeted for fancial ga and not bee of their sexual orientatn. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAt first, the men’s aths were treated as overdos, until tens of thoands of dollars were found draed om their bank Umberger was seen leavg the Q nightclub Manhattan, his mother Moon for The New York TimJul Ramirez died the back seat of a taxi April after he left a popular gay bar Manhattan wh a group of men. They stole his wallet, phone and ID before they abandoned his body the r wh a distrsed month later, John Umberger was found ad an Upper East Si townhoe after he and a group of men left another popular gay bar jt three blocks om the last place Mr.

Muny at first regard the aths as isolated dg overdos: men who partied too hard, quotidian tragedi a gay nightlife scene that has roared back to life as the ronavis panmic has the men’s fai soon disvered somethg more sister: Cred rds the men’s nam were maxed out and their bank acunts draed of tens of thoands of dollars. Muny, which emerged om the panmic to the jaws of a monkeypox outbreak, a landspe of stgglg and sometim shuttered bars and an creasgly hostile natnal polil have also spread fear and mor, while startg a broar nversatn about siar attacks that have quietly plagued the cy’s gay nightlife for years. Umberger were targeted bee they were gay, and they have not said if they believe the men’s aths and other nonfatal attacks are men who said they were dgged have stggled to nvce the police they were the victims of a crime and not jt irrponsible partygoers who took someone home and blacked Alarn, 33, said he was dgged at the Rz March 2020.

NYPD VTIGAT ANOTHER VICTIM NNECTN TO GAY BAR DGGG SCHEME, POLICE SOURC SAY

Umberger, The Tim has spoken to five men who said they were dgged at gay bars the cy — cludg the Eagle, the Boiler Room and the 9th Avenue Saloon — and then robbed. It is also ed recreatnally by some the gay Burt, 27, was robbed of more than $25, 000 after he was dgged at the Boiler Room the East Village last December.

DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE

ImageCouncilman Erik Bottcher reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Moon for The New York TimGay bars hold a special place L.

Councilman Erik Bottcher — who reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Village — lled “a goln age of nightlife.

EAGLE LEATHER AND LEVI GAY BAR GUI

People of “groomg” children, a homophobic trope that nflat homosexualy wh pedophilia. Bar Colorado addn, many gay bars are or near Midtown Manhattan, which has been transformed by panmic-era enomic llapse and acts of high-profile street crime.

More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Dgggs, Deaths and Robberi Put Cy’s Gay Communy on Edge. New YorkAmeri's most famo LGBTQ statn due to gay liberatn Stonewall protts over 50 years ago. The Stonewall rts were a seri of monstratns by members of the gay muny agast a police raid on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn the Greenwich Village.

The monstratns are nsired to nstute the sgle most important event that started the gay liberatn movement. Gay culture is spread around the cy three ma gay areas of Chelsea, Hell's Kchen and the Village. New York do not have any exclively gay plac to stay but has LGBT owned gut ho and gay iendly hotels.