Rememberg the Lost Gay Bars of NYC - PAPER Magaze

Contents:

• THE 7 BT GAY BARS HELL'S KCHEN, NEW YORK
• JO THE Q — FOUR NEW GAY VENU LE UP TO OPEN HELL’S KCHEN
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

THE 7 BT GAY BARS HELL'S KCHEN, NEW YORK

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. There will always be gay bars, but will they be as vivid, sexy, and subversive as the hnts of yore?

The history of NYC nightlife is studd wh the memori of fascatg boît that attracted gays sperate need of nnectn, then ultimately fell away as newer spots and trends emerged.

JO THE Q — FOUR NEW GAY VENU LE UP TO OPEN HELL’S KCHEN

Once a year—for three years a row—they've done Gay Bars That Are Gone, an rmative walk as part of Jane Jabsftival, May. What's your favore lost NYC gay bar?

Kyle: My favore is probably the Nth Circle (a fab Wt 10th Street steakhoe-turned-gay-bar full of leather clon, twks, htlers, and celebry drop-s, all eher cisg, playg pool, dog dgs, or bbg agast each other. What are your 'Gay Bars That Are Gone' walks walks like? We try to ver different typ of plac--gay dance clubs, leather scene, piano bars, Rose's Turn, the old Duplex space.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

")So Walt Whman was openly gay? Michael: Not he went to a gay bar. Michael: It was a bohemian bar, so we don't have the language to put "gay bar" explicly.

We were outsi the Me Shaft [a rnchy 1970s/'80s gay sex club on Washgton Street].

Michael: It's really the lack of the gay spac, wh real tate beg what is.

Now you n stay your hometown and live your gay life, you don't have to e to a metropolan cy and have that nnectn.