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wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dDxGlf body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>The gay bar isn’t what ed to be.</p><p>In New York, at least, a scene recently domated by drag nights and dis lights now clus rovg dner seri like <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Queer Soup Night</a>, POC-foced dance parti like <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bubble_T</a> and <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Papi Juice</a>, and Brooklyn bars where you n get your astrologil chart read, like <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Mood Rg</a>—all seekg to make gay nightlife more diverse and clive. Meanwhile, tradnal gay bars are <a href=">stgglg to survive</a>, not bee of lack of mand, but bee of risg rents and high overhead sts. The spectm of optns has never been wir.</p><p>It’s this climate that No Bar at the Standard East Village opened on Wednday, one of the first gay bars si a major natnal hotel cha. The bar, loted jt adjacent to <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Narcissa</a>, the hotel’s high-end rtrant, is aimg to be both a sual hangout and a night club, servg craft cktails and fancy bar snacks. It’s also the first high-profile project by creative director and former Missn Che Food executive chef <a href=">Angela Dimayuga</a>, who me on board last year to oversee the Standard’s rtrants and programmg. Dimayuga has long been a fixture New York’s unrground queer nightlife scene. In 2017, she lnched a monthly rovg party lled Gh, which drew a diverse, primarily lbian crowd. Now, wh No Bar, she’s hopg to brg this subculture to a cidly mastream space.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="w81w1"></div></div><div class="InstagramEmbedContaer-jbvDdB bgqGfh"><div class="MsageBannerWrapper-krrtvl YIGPO ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ" data-ttid="msage-banner"><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MsageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd eDZzdB bidFWt"><h4 class="ConsentBannerTle-lgaGAH gOfech">Instagram ntent</h4><p>This ntent n also be viewed on the se <a href=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLk-dJZMSz iUEiRd eDZzdB hRaEiJ">origat</a> om.</p></div></div></div><p>New York’s first gay bars opened the 1950s as a rponse to a social scene that effectively exclud gay people <a href=">by law</a>. The gay bars were tend to be safe havens, but they were largely owned and patronized by cisgenr gay men, a trend that persisted the gay nightlife muny for s.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p><strong>Osr Nñ</strong>, the founr of Papi Juice, a monthly dance party started 2013 terg to queer and trans people of lor, says that most of the gay bars he vised when he moved to New York 2011 still f that scriptn.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>“We weren’t feelg reprented any part of , om the mic to the vib to our own bety and body and sk lor,” he says. “I love Madonna, but when I go out that is not <em>all</em> I want to hear.”</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="bk8l4s"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="ihhdm4"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dDxGlf body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p><strong>Stevie Huynh</strong>, the -founr of Bubble_T, a queer, Asian dance party found 2017, said that as an Asian man, he was a target of discrimatn at gay bars.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>“There is this sayg people will e the apps: ‘no fats, no fems, no Asians,’ and that translated to parti,” he says. “It is still graed mastream gay culture.”</p><div class="InstagramEmbedContaer-jbvDdB bgqGfh"><div class="MsageBannerWrapper-krrtvl YIGPO ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ" data-ttid="msage-banner"><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MsageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd eDZzdB bidFWt"><h4 class="ConsentBannerTle-lgaGAH gOfech">Instagram ntent</h4><p>This ntent n also be viewed on the se <a href=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLk-dJZMSz iUEiRd eDZzdB hRaEiJ">origat</a> om.</p></div></div></div><p>When Dimayuga moved to New York 2006, she felt alienated by the lbian bars she enuntered. “I thk people refer to <em>The L Word</em> a lot, but <em>The L Word</em> isn’t really my scene or my people,” she says. (The characters are primarily whe and upper-class.) Other plac she found were male-centered, not diverse enough, or simply too far away om where she lived.</p><p>When Dimayuga took on her role at the Standard 2018, she noticed that the hotel had plenty of great rtrants, but there were no venu foced around “the programmg and the people that make up the space.” She realized she uld sentially recreate Gh one of the most regnizable hotels the cy. “There’s an opportuny to go to a party maybe once a month,” she says. “But to have a fixed place where you n experience what folks experience the smaller parti,” but a more expansive settg, “is excg to me.”</p><p>“I brought Angela on board bee I rpect her visn and abili,” says <strong>Amar Lalvani</strong>, CEO of Standard Hotels. “When she prented the ia, clicked as a natural progrsn of our culture of openns and clivy...a way to nnect wh not jt the LGBTQ muny, but the downtown social muny at large.”</p><p>At No Bar, there will be rotatg DJs, accsibly priced food like oysters and schmaltz poprn, and cheekily named cktails like the Feel the Beet, wh vodka, lillet, beet shb, and lemon (pl an optnal five-dollar <a href=">CBD boost</a>). The dér is bt scribed as “high-low”: w prts mixed wh silk, “buy 10 cktails, get one ee” rds, and rollg papers stead of brand matchbooks. There will be no ver for events, Dimayuga says, and she plans to partner wh the <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Lower East Si Girls Club</a> and <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Performance Space</a>, a non-prof exhibn space.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="zyyylc"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="RecircMostPopularWrapper-bRuGTi jkTTgR recirc-most-popular-wrapper viewport-monor-anchor"></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="wpv9"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dDxGlf body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><div class="InstagramEmbedContaer-jbvDdB bgqGfh"><div class="MsageBannerWrapper-krrtvl YIGPO ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ" data-ttid="msage-banner"><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MsageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd eDZzdB bidFWt"><h4 class="ConsentBannerTle-lgaGAH gOfech">Instagram ntent</h4><p>This ntent n also be viewed on the se <a href=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLk-dJZMSz iUEiRd eDZzdB hRaEiJ">origat</a> om.</p></div></div></div><p>She says the name “No Bar” is a reference to “No Holds Barred,” as , “there are no l here.” That said, ’s a hotel bar adjacent to an upsle rtrant a gentrified neighborhood New York, so perhaps the “no l” part is more of a vibe than a realy. And rais the qutn of whether Dimayuga n recreate a scene that's thrived outer boroughs and pop-up spac to a natnal hotel cha (albe a very ol one). Corporate brands have equently been lled out for attempts at “clivy”—like stampg your cupk wh rabows, like <a href=">Sweets by Chloe did</a> last year durg Pri month. And the Dalloway, a high-end vany project on the Lower East Si opened by <strong>Kim Stolz</strong> of <em>Ameri's Next Top Mol</em> and <strong>Amanda Leigh Dunn</strong> of the realy show <em>The Real L Word</em>, closed wh a year.</p><p><strong>Brenda Walsh</strong>, the owner of East Village gay bar <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Phoenix Bar</a>, which jt celebrated s twentieth anniversary, said she fears that a bar a place like the Standard would lack the muny feel of more sual, legacy spots like hers, focg on profs more than on the people serv.</p><p>“A lot of clubs do gay nights bee that’s where the money is,” she says. “Some plac are only for the money, wh the high-end food and drks.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>But, as Dimayuga pots out, she has spent plenty of time partyg wh and creatg spac for the very people she wants to patronize her bar. 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Dpe risg awarens of LGBT rights, Japan is the only G7 untry that do not regnise same-sex marriag, and much of the untry’s multibilln-dollar love hotel dtry accepts only heterosexual Ishikawa, Japan’s first openly gay MP, timated that of 143 love hotels Tokyo’s Toshima ward, where he began his reer as an assembly member, 30 refed entry to same-sex expectatn that they will be rejected means many gay men have e to regard love hotels as off-lims, acrdg to one member of Tokyo’s LGBT muny, who told the Guardian: “Nothg dampens the prospect of a romantic eveng out more than a homophobic hotel policy.

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”Akira Nishiyama, assistant executive director of the Japan Alliance for LGBT Legislatn, said hotel rejectns of same-sex upl were mon, even though is illegal unr a 2018 revisn to the hotel bs law, which stat that hotels “should not reject guts on the basis of their sexual orientatn or genr inty” the rare ocsns that ctomers report a hotel for homophobia, thori simply offer the proprietors “admistrative guidance” – a measure mpaigners say lacks legal love hotels, so named after the first of their kd – Hotel Love – opened Osaka the late 1960s, origally tered to upl sperate to pe their extend fai, who tradnally lived unr one roof, for a few hours of a cle the young populatn, the rise sgle hoeholds, and the pre-panmic boost ternatnal tourism have prompted many to unrgo image makeovers to appeal to travellers, cludg sgle guts lookg for paratively cheap and fortable a rult, the number of hotels wh an overtly sexual theme has dwdled to ls than 10, 000 recent years, pared wh around 30, 000 two s ago. “We uld have people g om all over the world to next year’s Olympics, and if gay upl are nied entry to love hotels will not reflect well on Japan. ”Although some webs have started listg “gay-iendly” love hotels, Matsunaka said Japan’s refal to fully accept the LGBT muny, exemplified by the ban on same-sex marriag, ma homophobia socially acceptable.

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Now, wh No Bar, she’s hopg to brg this subculture to a cidly mastream York’s first gay bars opened the 1950s as a rponse to a social scene that effectively exclud gay people by law. The gay bars were tend to be safe havens, but they were largely owned and patronized by cisgenr gay men, a trend that persisted the gay nightlife muny for Nñ, the founr of Papi Juice, a monthly dance party started 2013 terg to queer and trans people of lor, says that most of the gay bars he vised when he moved to New York 2011 still f that scriptn. ”Stevie Huynh, the -founr of Bubble_T, a queer, Asian dance party found 2017, said that as an Asian man, he was a target of discrimatn at gay bars.

“It is still graed mastream gay culture. And the Dalloway, a high-end vany project on the Lower East Si opened by Kim Stolz of Ameri's Next Top Mol and Amanda Leigh Dunn of the realy show The Real L Word, closed wh a Walsh, the owner of East Village gay bar Phoenix Bar, which jt celebrated s twentieth anniversary, said she fears that a bar a place like the Standard would lack the muny feel of more sual, legacy spots like hers, focg on profs more than on the people serv. “A lot of clubs do gay nights bee that’s where the money is, ” she says.

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