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• GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS NEW YORK CY
• STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• NEW YORK GAY DISTRICT: CHELSEA
• THE DER THAT BEME A HAVEN FOR NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNI
• GAY NEW YORK · RTRANTS
• NEW YORK GAY RTRANTS

GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS NEW YORK CY

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STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

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THE DER THAT BEME A HAVEN FOR NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNI

The panmic h the untry’s urban gay rtrants pecially hard, said Jt Nelson, the print of the Natnal LGBT Chamber of Commerce. MeMe’s Der, a popular queer rtrant Brooklyn, permanently closed November, cg shutdown measur and a lack of ernment rtrants, like gay bars, are also facg cris of inty and purpose a time that is many ways more welg than the past, when gay people sought out gay rtrants bee they offered safety and acceptance that uldn’t be found elsewhere. Gay men equented plac like Orphan Andy’s, a mpy der om the same that’s still bs the Castro neighborhood of San Francis.

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Katas said, “people are g back wh tears their ey” bee they “missed beg a space where they’re not the only gay people. ”Derr Andra and Zack Sands weren’t lookg for a gay rtrant when they moved to Dupont Circle four years ago.

”For Steve Herman, 79, who has eaten at Annie’s sce 1976, that reason is the fact that Dupont Circle isn’t as gay as once was. “I thk ’s a great thg that gay people are more mastream and fortable gog other plac, ” he said.

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