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

Contents:

• GAY NEW YORK: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, DRAG SHOWS AND QUEER CULTURE
• GAY BARS THEATER DISTRICT NEW YORK
• NEW YORK GAY DISTRICT: CHELSEA
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• NEW YORK CY GAY BARS

GAY NEW YORK: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, DRAG SHOWS AND QUEER CULTURE

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. NYC is a gay-iendly town wh a variety of neighbourhoods offerg pockets of queer culture and nightlife, each wh s own uy flavour. The Wt Village – the hub of the morn gay movement, thanks to the 1969 rebelln at the Stonewall Inn – still bristl wh gay bars and drag clubs, mostly unaffected hangouts such as the appealg Piec, and The Monster, a two-floor nightlife emporium wh piano bar on top and dis down below.

Chelsea (the gay mec the 90s) was bet by a mass exod as beme gentrified, though the long-nng Barracuda Lounge still provis booze and schmooze, and G Lounge never go away, thanks to s ambient mi-areas which to hang wh your clique. And Hell’s Kchen (or HK) is now the gay epicentre, where rents are a ltle more affordable, thereby attractg swarms of new arrivals who prowl the streets and look for fun on an obssive basis. (On last unt, there were 14 gay bars the area, whout a p off sight.

And even gays whout mcl have a chance at some fun.

GAY BARS THEATER DISTRICT NEW YORK

There are naked pictur the bathroom but this isn’t your typil over-the-top gay bar wh loud mic and ctomers. It’s the gay Cheers – if you’re 70, lol, though there’s ually a mix, wh other typ stragglg . Women get cheaper, “homo cys dus” pay more, and “str8 cys dus” pay a lot more.

Don’t go thkg you’re necsarily gog to see the bt show you’ve ever seen, but ’s fun as an Mm of Gay and Lbian ArtThe Public Theater is a great place to see theatre, and is mted to diversy. But the show don’t jt break ground; digs up the memori that are buried there, both joyful and tragic, and airs them poignant and telligent Soho, Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art (admissn ee) is a small treasure that celebrat the work of queer artists past and prent. The shows pay tribute to a different element of gay culture, high or low, every episo.

NEW YORK GAY DISTRICT: CHELSEA

The birthday boy or girl go onstage and gets harassed by a drag queen, and that clus gay birthdays and other gay parti. For over a century, the Greenwich Village wateront along the Hudson River, cludg the Christopher Street Pier at Wt 10th and Wt Streets, has been a statn for the LGBT muny that has evolved om a place for cisg and sex for gay men to an important safe haven for a margalized queer muny – mostly queer homels youth of lor. By World War I, the area had bee a popular cisg area for gay men, and by the 1930s the openg of the elevated Miller (Wt Si) Highway (now molished) cut through the area makg more of a backwater.

THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY

The ncentratn of men, numero bars and wareho, and nighttime isolatn tablished the wateront as one of the ma centers for gay life that thrived well after World War II. This enabled the area to reta s populary for gay men to cise and have sex at night. Around the time of the June 1969 Stonewall uprisg, Christopher Street beme an important gay thoroughfare and, th, the ma rridor to the wateront.

The dilapidated stctur – cludg Pier 45 (known as the Christopher Street Pier) oppose Wt 10th Street, and piers 46, 48, and 51 – were reappropriated as a statn for gay men to sunbathe naked, cise, and have public sex by the early 1970s. Gay bars replaced former wateront taverns on the wtern end of Christopher Street and adjacent blocks. Six of the 14 buildgs the adjacent New York Cy Weehawken Street Historic District hoed gay bars om the early 1970s to the prent, cludg the lotn of the former Ramrod.

NEW YORK CY GAY BARS

The ground floor of the former Keller Hotel (Barrow and Wt Streets) hoed the Keller Bar, which was reputed to be the olst gay “leather bar” the cy om 1956 to 1998. Many of those plac that were seamen’s bars and longshoremen’s bars beme gay bars. From 1975 to 1986, Black photographer Alv Baltrop took photos of gay men cisg among the ed archecture.