Gay Bars On Long Island? (Bay Shore, Bellmore: wealthy, sgle, entertament) - New York (NY) - Cy-Data Fom

Contents:

• KILLG CASTS A RARE LIGHT ON GAY LIFE SUBURBIA
• GAY BARS?? - LONG BEACH ISLAND FOM
• GAY REYKJAVIK
• GAY NEW YORK
• GAY NEW YORK CY
• GAY USA

KILLG CASTS A RARE LIGHT ON GAY LIFE SUBURBIA

I have a iend that's gay and he lik to hang out at LIGALY Bay Shore, they have like a dance/nightclub like thgy on Friday nights but I am not sure about bars. the olst and most well known gay bar on long island is the BUNKHOUSE sayville on ma street and s a real good time.

GAY BARS?? - LONG BEACH ISLAND FOM

BTW had been done and dted for weeks — s bar stocked, s tabl polished — and even more than that, was due to bee one of very few bars and rtrants on Long Island proper voted to the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr, or LGBT,, which stands for "born this way, " still opened as planned on Nov.

GAY REYKJAVIK

"I’ve been wantg to do this for years, bee I thk 's an unrserved muny, " said Caggiano, who had been spired by her gay or transgenr iends.

While lol LGBT social clubs and events have persisted over the years, the number of gay nightspots — prcipal venu for people to meet each other — has plummeted recent s, save for Cherry Grove and Fire Island P on Fire Island. At the gay bar, where one would expect outrage at a gay-bashg episo that the police said led to Mr. Marquez at a parkg lot near Pal Joey's last month has thrown an unwele spotlight on gay life the suburbs, a shadowy world between the pri, bravado and activism of Christopher Street Manhattan and the exuberant summer retreats on Fire Island and the advot say gay life on Long Island is often muted by half tths meant to protect double liv.

GAY NEW YORK

Many gay men and women here are married and have children, and, like many suburban, moved to Long Island to pe the anxieti of urban bias cints have bee a rallyg cry for gay-rights groups New York Cy, they rema largely a topic of hhed nversatn here and have gone all but unreported to the police, gay-rights advot say.

"In terms of solidary, 's the ostrich effect, " said Jam Darragh, a philosophy profsor and journalist Old Wtbury who is gay. Few Reported AttacksThe Nass County police say there were four reported cints of anti-gay bias 1991, the same number 1990, and five 1989.

GAY NEW YORK CY

The Suffolk County Police anti-bias un unted ne gay-bashg cints last year, up om four each of the two prev years. Joseph Zo, believe the figur give an accurate measure of sults and attacks agast gay people on Long part of the problem is New York State law, which do not prohib discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn, and leav gay people open to losg jobs and hog, said Sandy Rapp, polil director of the East End Gay Organizatn and thor of "God's Country, " a book on gay civil rights.

GAY USA

"The suburbs, and pecially Long Island, like to perceive themselv as a homogeneo group, " said a salman who knew Mr. Darragh, who did not want to be intified, said he was attacked at a gay bar Suffolk last year. Divorced and livg wh his parents, who still display his weddg picture the livg room, the man uld not brg himself to tell them he had been lured out of a gay bar and asslted.

It was two days before he was able to return that time, he replayed the attack his md: the teen-ager who asked if he was gay, and then blocked the door back to the bar; the bar patrons hearg his cri and g outsi to help; iends of his attacker nng over om the gas statn next door, swgg golf clubs; the bar owner llg his ctomers si and lockg the door, and the horrifyg realizatn that one man had mistakenly been locked out and was beg hours, the man grappled wh whether to prs charg, fearful of word spreadg that he had been a gay bar. Others were equally ambivalent about prsg charg: The owner of the bar wanted to report , the man who had been locked out and battered wh golf clubs did the attack, the victim felt sgled out, intifiable as gay.