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GAY BARS, GENR DISCRIMATN, AND BOYTTS—1980S STYLE

Rememberg the Lost Gay Bars of NYC Like The Vlt Me Shaft Nth Circle * gay bars nyc 1980s *

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.

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?

A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NEW YORK CY'S GAY & QUEER BARS

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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.

")So Walt Whman was openly gay? Michael: Not he went to a gay bar.

The years between the 1969 Stonewall Rebelln and the early 1980s, when the gay muny was ravaged by the AIDS epimic are often seen as a kd of goln age for New York Cy's LGBT populatn. The Wt Village, particular, was home to dozens of bars and clubs that tered to gay men, and one of the most popular was the Ramrod, a leather bar on Wt Street. Tragilly, the bar was also the scene of a homophobic attack 1980. The buildg, which is now home to Bongo Lobster Rolls, is part of the Weehawken Street Historic District. * gay bars nyc 1980s *

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.

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