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• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• THE CAFTAN CHRONICL SUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"IAN LEVE WAS THE 1980S DJ AT HEAVEN, THE INIC LONDON GAY CLUB, AND ALSO GAVE US \"SO MANY MEN, SO LTLE TIME\"","SCRIPTN":"THE BRISH MIC OBSSIVE AND PRODUCER WASN'T AN EASY TERVIEW. BUT HE DID HAVE SOME SPICY STORI ABOUT PULLG HOT BOYS WHE SHORTS OFF THE DANCE FLOOR AND BRGG THEM UP TO HIS DJ BOOTH.","IMAGE":[{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":"}],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2023-01-17T15:00:38+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2023-01-17T15:00:38+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":FALSE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"TIM MURPHY","URL":","SCRIPTN":"AUTHOR OF THE NOVELS CHRISTODORA AND CORRPONNTS (MAY 2019). LGBT, HIV/AIDS, CULTURE AND POLICS NTRIBUTOR FOR NYTIM, NYMAG, THE NATN, POZ, ETC.","INTIFIER":"ER:5275890","SAMEAS":["],"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"}}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"THE CAFTAN CHRONICL ","URL":","SCRIPTN":"DEEP TALKS WH NOTABLE GAY MEN \"OF A CERTA AGE\" ABOUT WHERE WE'VE BEEN, WHO WE ARE TODAY AND WHERE WE'RE GOG...","TERACTNSTATISTIC":{"@TYPE":"INTERACTNCOUNTER","NAME":"SUBSCRIBERS","TERACTNTYPE":","ERINTERACTNCOUNT":100},"INTIFIER":"PUB:429772","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"SAMEAS":["]}}SHARE THIS POSTIAN LEVE WAS THE 1980S DJ AT HEAVEN, THE INIC LONDON GAY CLUB, AND ALSO GAVE US "SO MANY MEN, SO LTLE TIME"COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERIAN LEVE WAS THE 1980S DJ AT HEAVEN, THE INIC LONDON GAY CLUB, AND ALSO GAVE US "SO MANY MEN, SO LTLE TIME"
• ALE STUNS FANS AT GAY CLUB LONDON WH IMPROMPTU POLE DANCG ROUTE
• NEW YORK CY GAY SNAS AND BATHHO
• THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK
• NIGHTCLUBBG: GAY CLUBBG ’70S LONDON
• HEAVEN GAY CLUB
• GAY SNA & CISE CLUB GUI

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

The spac, whether always gay iendly or only durg certa tim of the day or week, gave LGBT people the eedom to be themselv a way they ually uld not be their personal or profsnal liv. 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.

There's a walkg tour New York to memorate beloved gay bars and clubs that have closed down. “People on the phone ask to speak to God, they ask if I’m posive we’re not really hell, they say, ‘Oh no, my time hasn’t e yet, ’ ” he remarked the 1991 clientele was all over the board — rich and poor, gay and straight, preppi and posers. Maybe you haven't heard of him, pecially if you're Amerin, but perhaps you've heard of Heaven, the legendary London gay club (Andrew Hollghurst brgs to life vividly The Swimmg Pool Library, one of my favore novels).

Ian was the ma DJ there through the entire eighti, pneerg the style of 1980s gay post-dis club mic—which we associate often wh The Pet Shop Boys, Bronski Beat and Erasure— that me to be lled Hi-NRG. He wrote and produced the super-gay Hi-NRG hs "So Many Men, So Ltle Time, " wh s licly early-eighti-gay vio full of actual gay men om Los "High Energy".. ) So when someone suggted I reach out to Ian to terview him, I knew we'd have some shared passns, as I ed to DJ myself and am a huge history of every sgle phase of dance-mic and DJ history—pecially the gay aspects.

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I thk next month's terview will be richer—'s wh a te legend of the NYC gay publishg/lerary world on the release of his own latt memoir, which I am very exced to read shortly. Caftaners, please drop me a le if ever you n thk of a gay man age 60 or olr who's led a notable life—I n't promise I'll pursue, as I have my own quirky ias about who seems or seems not to be a good terview, but I'll fely nsir! Ian: Bee 's too gay.

My gay Julian's hband is the manager of M Jiang on the tenth floor of the Royal Garn Hotel Kensgton.

ALE STUNS FANS AT GAY CLUB LONDON WH IMPROMPTU POLE DANCG ROUTE

But that scene was not very gay, was ?

Ian: The DJ L Cokell was gay.

NEW YORK CY GAY SNAS AND BATHHO

But no, was a very straight, macho When did you first realize you were gay or had gay feelgs? I was New York Cy 1975 and [dance mic pneer] Tom Moulton, who beme a great idol of me, took me to the new gay club Infy and was a life-changer. By night I worked as a barman the notor Cellar Bar, a gay leather bar which was part of the nightclub Heaven.

It would figure that Williamsburg's premiere gay bar would have only a MySpace page as s webse—ah, the ironic retro ter—and this award-wng gay and lbian oriented bar is one of the most popular the borough, even moro durg the warm weather months due to s am... Midtown's "only full-time gay bar" equipped wh r om the Forti, wh a great selectn of ntemporary tun playg over the sound system.

The Boiler Room is as far removed thematilly as is geographilly om the Hell's Kchen and Chelsea gay scen—what New York lovgly lls a "post-gay gay bar"—where orientatn isn't a good enough basis for nversatn and beg the most over-the-top bottom won't w yo... That would be the Lat pronunciatn of "boom boom, " by the way, which mak sense for this South Amerin-styled gay bar Woodsi.

THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC

Probably Manhattan's most clive gay club, Indtry is a b of an anomaly Midtown nightlife, that rare place you aim directly for stead of happen to end up at.

Multi-level gay bar wh three differently themed rooms, om a banquette-stuffed lounge for dg and mglg, a simple but elegant bar, and a third for dancg and cisg. Country & Wtern-styled saloon for the gay and lbian crowd Hell's Kchen. they were attached by ten youths set on gay-bashg.

When Heaven opened s doors to the dis-hungry gay hedonists of London 40 years ago this month, was clared the hippt place Europe. “Heaven’s biggt headache uld be terrg London’s non-gay disphil who uld end up tryg to pass for gay to get past the elegant bouncers at the dis’s equivalent of the Pearly Gat, ” he not born 1979 may know the club’s fabled history as the early home of hoe mic and have seen featured vios and documentari.

THE 10 BEST NEW YORK GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK

But back then, for members of London’s burgeong gay scene, the arrival of Heaven was the moment when a rich hidn culture beme part of mastream nightlife. ” Ellitt adds that, to mark the big birthday, the club has won permissn to operate as a marriage venue, wh the first ceremony to take place on 15 December, almost exactly 40 years after the openg Heaven’s arrival had an impact, drew on strands of alternative dis culture already threadg through the cy the 12 years sce homosexualy had been crimalised.

Ctomers at tablished gay dancefloors and discreet venu, such as Bang, Napoleons, Sndals and Catabs, had ially moved on to a club on Old Bond Street lled the Embassy, opened 1978 by Jeremy Norman. “Prr to that, gay clubs were only found unrground pub cellars, ” rells Ellitt. Until then, would have been difficult for people to tell people you had been to a gay club.

NIGHTCLUBBG: GAY CLUBBG ’70S LONDON

“When started was still difficult for gay people to be accepted. But Heaven was a place that changed perspectiv and brought the two muni, gay and straight, together, ” says Whyte. In 1981, The News of the World nmned the place as “more like hell”, and eight years later the Sun me down hard on dg Carey at GAY 2003.

In this terview, he speaks about his nights at The Sat and the plited narrativ of AIDS and gay liberatn Ameri. The Sat Foundatn’s archiv clu a 1980 py of ‘Bob Damrom’s Addrs Book, ’ a rare gui to gay cisg across Ameri.

HEAVEN GAY CLUB

Howard Rosenman, the award-wng producer of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Call Me By Your Name, ” shar stori om The Sat dance floor and issu a ll-to-actn for tellers of gay history.

Bce Mailman is remembered by some as a ntroversial figure gay NYC history bee of his refal to close the New Sat Mark’s Baths amidst the AIDS outbreak. Bce Mailman, the origal gay owner of The Sat and The Sat Mark’s Baths, said to always look forward, never backward. She had a few drks; served a RuPl-worthy lip-sync to Martha Wash’s gay anthem “It’s Rag Men;” joed drag performer Cheryl Hole on stage; and even gave the dience an unexpected twirl on a dancg pole.

Another lled the Grammy Award wner the “queen of everythg, queen of England, queen of the mic dtry, queen of the gays. ’s BBC One, the “Hello” sger chatted wh Norton about her nceled rincy and her relatnship wh Amerin sports agent Rich Pl of Klutch Sports Group, who manag NBA star LeBron ’s not the first time the London-born sger surpris some of her fans wh an impromptu appearance at a popular gay March 2019, the pop superstar and a iend, Amy Award-wng actrs Jennifer Lawrence, went out for some gay ol’ fun at Piec, the Wt Village’s long-standg gay BFFs had some drks, hugged and took some selfi next to sweaty shirtls men, and danced to Kylie Mogue. 29 plac sorted by traveler favorBars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)What travelers are saygWe had a fantastic night!

GAY SNA & CISE CLUB GUI

Flamg Saddl is the perfect mix of great drks, Amerina, gay culture and cute bar high energy gay bar rais the roof wh their bar top dancg bartenrs. Delightful ambiance and great mic - I remend all gay women checkg out this amazg ltle bar Park Slope. I went to a few gay bars, and by far this was the bt place to dance and the mic was the bt here, varied, and not too much dance mic like you got your head bangg a fish bowl!

If you have gay iends like me, brg them there, you will have the bt night out! Before 1976, gay venu London me two tegori. There were the members’ clubs that provid dner and dance, pl baret, for the stately-homo set.

DJ Tricky Dicky was one of the first promoters to grasp the ia of the one-nighter – hirg out a pub or bar for the night, jt to put on a gay night.

His Dick’s Inn Gay Dis operated out of straight venu as far afield
 as Croydon, Ilford, Bishopsgate and Eton, packg a few hundred gay boys and girls at a time. Wh his pop and soul mic reviews and dis chart Gay News, Tricky Dicky received verage om a gay prs more terted polics, cema, theatre and opera than the mercial gay 1975 Tricky Dicky held a one-nighter lled Fangs unrneath a hotel Paddgton and, much to his surprise, the place was full to pacy, wh 600 dancg queens 
lappg up every mute.

The night didn’t last long
 due to terference om
 the venue’s owners, who
 were none too happy about
 homos takg over their 
space. 1976 was a groundbreakg year for gay dis London, thanks to the arrival of Bang, London’s first gay superclub.

Gary London, already rint at the Sundowner on straight nights, took his spiratn for Bang om the big gay clubs 
of New York, LA and San Francis.

For London’s scenters and disphil, a trip to Bang s early days, wh s vastns and hedonistic dis energy, uld be as liberatg as gog on a Gay Pri march (whose numbers those days were srcely bigger than a Bang crowd).