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EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS KGSTON

Chanc are, if you’re readg this, you’ve heard somethg fabulo about Upstate New York or you’ve wonred to yourself “is the Hudson Valley gay iendly? Workg your way up the river, one of the first towns wh our Big Gay Hudson Valley is the village of Cold Sprg Putnam County. Well known for ’s adventurome mayor – who was the first to marry gay and lbian upl 2004 – this is one of the funkier llege towns of the Hudson Valley.

While you’re there, be sure to check out one of s gay-owned shops or tch a fabulo pnnt film at Upstate Films. Loted on eher si of the Rip Van Wkle Bridge, the two towns are packed wh gay life. The furtht of the statns on our lol map, gay life the Cy of Hudson is driven primarily by Trixie Starr, the head of the Hudson Pri Foundatn and the anizer of the town’s Pri Para.

It feels a ltle like you’ve taken a step back time once you arrive, but even Catskill has s own gay bar; Doubl II. Office, Kgston’s first official gay bar, opened the early 1980s on the rner of Montreal St. Although the Office was the first openly gay bar, a number of other gay bars have occupied space at the Plaza, until as recently as 1997, when Dreammakers, the last lbian bar the buildg, closed s doors.

KGSTON GAY-FRIENDLY VENU

Sce the openg of the Office, a number of gay bars have occupied var Kgston lotns, cludg Robert’s Club Vogue, which then beme Club 477, a reference to s addrs at 477 Prcs; Wally’s, a dance bar on Bath Road; and Shay Foo Foo’s marti lounge the basement of the Rt Inn on Prcs Street, the recent closure of which has left Kgston whout a gay bar at the time of wrg. Although openly signated “gay bars” did not exist Kgston before the early ’80s, this absence did not stop gays and lbians om rvg out a place for themselv.

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