THE 10 BEST New York Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

Contents:

• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART
• THE 15 BT GAY BARS NYC TO CHECK OUT
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• NEW YORK CY GAY BARS
• A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NEW YORK CY'S GAY & QUEER BARS
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK
• BT GAY BARS IN NEW YORK CY
• GAY BARS THAT ARE GONE TOUR
• LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

New York's Lost Gay BarsWe've known for many years that too many of our cherished gay bars and clubs are shutterg, fallg victim to risg rents and the ubiquy of apps like Grdr and Scff. 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.

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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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If late-night hunger hs, the Tex-Mex menu is surprisgly good; opt for Flamg Saddl’ signature Fro Pie—’s Fro rn chips smothered homema Texas red chilli, and ’s absolutely Maria BadasianAn East Village stutn for two s, the Phoenix Bar is one of the bt gay bars NYC for a reason4. It’s perhaps a bizarre mix, yet somehow works brilliantly, cementg Club Cummg’s place amongst the bt gay clubs NYC. JuliWhile the Stonewall Inn is rightfully famed wh startg the gay liberatn movement, the acla for the olst operatg gay bar NYC go to Juli.

” 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. Today, Juli is a buzzg gay bar and rtrant servg up juicy, expensive burgers a snug space overflowg wh fascatg historil piec. CubbyholeAs acceptance and tolerance ntue to bee the way of the world, once exclive gay clubs NYC are now welg everyone and anyone—so long as you’re equally open-md.

Such is the se at Cubbyhole, a longtime lbian and gay lole that’s ls ncerned about labels and more foced on fosterg a welg, eclectic ambience.

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LipsFor a sctillatg drag queen show paired wh an exquise culary experience, head straight to Lips—NYC’s go-to drag spot for over two s and a mt-clu on any gay travel gui to New York Cy.

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Marie's CrisisIn this laid-back, gay-popular venue Greenwich Village, mil theatre stunts, fun-lovg ctomers, and even the ocsnal celebry stop by to belt their favoure Broadway show tun to the acpaniment of a live pianist. Ground zero for the 1969 rts that helped lnch the gay rights movement, Stonewall is still a rog, though very touristy, Village statn to pay tribute to the movement. Its annual Gay Pri Sunday service is one of the church's biggt events of the year, and an timated third of s ngregatn reprents the LGBTQ muny.

The Parks Department says, "the rult is specific, evotive, and unrstated, showg the public fort and eedom to which the gay liberatn movement aspired.

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Protts followg a police raid here June 1969 are seen by many as the begng of the gay rights movement the Uned Stat.

In 1966, members of the Mattache Society anized a prott at the bar agast an existg liquor law that prohibed the sale of alhol to disorrly groups, which (explibly) clud gay people. That prott eventually led to the overturng of those laws, and is subsequently seen as a landmark moment towards tablishg other gay bars across the cy. The Mattache Society was one of the earlit gay rights anizatns the Uned Stat, probably only send to Chigo's Society for Human Rights.

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The group foced on promotg gay rights through tn and peaceful means the subsequent years, but adopted more aggrsive tactics after the Stonewall rts.

His semal book, Gvanni’s Room, generated a lot of ntroversy at the time of s publitn 1956 for s pictn of homosexualy and terracial relatnships. One of the pneers of the gay rights movement the Uned Stat, Frank Kameny grew up this hoe Richmond, Queens, and graduated om the Richmond Hill High School 1941. The Archiv grew out of the Stonewall Rts and subsequently out of the Gay Amic Unn, when several women the group felt wasn't properly addrsg issu of sexism wh the gay muny.

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STONEWALL INN, 1969— When lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) people risted a police raid at this Greenwich Village tavern, they brought a growg liberatn movement to light. While bathho, drag balls, and good ol’ “Screech Beach” (also known as the beach at Jab Riis Park) were all important s for queer gathergs, the cy’s queer muny pecially thrived s gay bars. Bars allowed queer people to socialize whout a polil agenda and offered a space for them to celebrate their sexualy wh relative eedom—“relative” beg the key word, as homosexual solicatn was still illegal and police raids were mon.

In New York’s gay bars, however, pri is a yearlong event—and for your nvenience, we’ve assembled a list of the bt LGBTQ bars the cy has to offer, om chic clubs to kky div to s-old queer strongholds.

Consistently ranked as one of NYC’s bt gay bars by New York Magaze and The Village Voice, Indtry is known for s sizeable high-ceilged dance floor and dtrial athetic. Another historic favore, Greenwich Village’s Juli’ holds the distctn of beg the olst ntually operatg gay bar New York Cy.

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In 1966, a full three years before the Stonewall Rts, Juli’ was also the se of the Mattache Society’s “sip-, ” a prott agast the then-mon practice of bars refg to serve alhol to gay people, that ultimately succeed forcg the State Liquor Authory to relax s discrimatory polici. As one of only 21 lbian bars left the untry and one of three New York Cy (the other two beg Cubbyhole jt a few blocks north and Gger’s Bar Park Slope) Henrietta Hudson is fiercely mted to creatg a space that embrac members of the LGBTQ muny who are often left alienated queer spac domated by cis gay men. In recent years, some gay bars have begun dilutg the kks and raw sexualy that prevly fed the spac an effort to make them a ltle more accsible to heterosexual bar hoppers.

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When the permanent versn of his avant-gar queer nightclub opened 2017, quickly beme known for s dazzlg, celebry-studd baret, drag, and standup performanc ( whose dienc Cummg himself n ocsnally be spotted) as well as for hostg events that might not be tradnally found a gay bar, such as jazz jam ssns and “drk and draw” nights wh live figure mols.

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