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• GAY CLUB OWNER: SHOOTG AMID A NEW ‘TYPE OF HATE’
• OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG COM AMID A NEW 'TYPE OF HATE'
• OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG AMID A NEW 'TYPE OF HATE'
• ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE FAC OVER A OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS
• GAY CLUB OWNER: SHOOTG AMID A NEW ‘TYPE OF HATE’
• GAY CLUB OWNER, PAL SLA
• TWO NEW BARS THE GAYBORHOOD ARE OWNED BY PEOPLE OF LOR, MARKG A MAJOR SHIFT
• MOSW'S LARGT GAY CLUB SHUTS ITS DOORS
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• RSIA'S LARGT GAY CLUB HAS SHUT DOWN
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG AMID A NEW ‘TYPE OF HATE’
• GAY CLUB OWNER: SHOOTG AMID A NEW ‘TYPE OF HATE’

GAY CLUB OWNER: SHOOTG AMID A NEW ‘TYPE OF HATE’

— The -owner of the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub where a shooter turned a drag queen’s birthday celebratn to a massacre said he thks the shootg that killed five people and jured 17 others is a reflectn of anti-LGBTQ sentiment that has evolved om prejudice to cement. Grzecka said Club Q opened after the only other gay bar Colorado Sprgs at that time shuttered.

He scribed that era as an evolutn of gay bars.

OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG COM AMID A NEW 'TYPE OF HATE'

Des ago, dgy, hole--the-wall gay venu were meant largely for fdg a hookup or date, said Grzecka.

OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG AMID A NEW 'TYPE OF HATE'

Co-owners of Club Q, Matthew Hayn, ont, and Nic Grzecka, addrs the crowd after a 25-foot historic pri flag was displayed on the exterr of Cy Hall to mark the weekend mass shootg at the gay nightclub Wednday, Nov.

ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE FAC OVER A OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS

(AP) — The -owner of the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub where a shooter turned a drag queen’s birthday celebratn to a massacre said he thks the shootg that killed five people and jured 17 others is a reflectn of anti-LGBTQ sentiment that has evolved om prejudice to Grzecka’s voice was tged wh exhstn as he spoke wh The Associated Prs on Wednday night some of his first ments sce Saturday night's attack at Club Q, a venue Grzecka helped build to an enclave that staed the LGBTQ muny nservative-leang Colorado Sprgs. Grzecka, who started moppg floors and bartendg at Club Q 2003 a year after opened, said he hop to channel his grief and anger to rebuildg the support system for Colorado Sprgs’ LGBTQ muny that only Club Q had and state officials have offered support and Print Joe Bin and First Lady Jill Bin reached out to Grzecka and -owner Matthew Hayn on Thursday to offer ndolenc and reerate their support for the muny, as well as their mment to fightg back agast hate and gun Q opened after the only other gay bar Colorado Sprgs at that time shuttered, Grzecka said, scribg that era as an evolutn of gay bars. This clud five who said that when they were their late teens or early 20s and yearng for a sense of gay muny, Cohen grabbed their genals or buttocks at parti he hosted or at Motel 23.

Six of the ne accers said that bee they were newly out of the closet and didn’t know many queer people when the enunters occurred, they prumed that the cints were normal wh the gay muny, even though they were upset by them at the of Cohen’s accers add that havg accs to New York’s gay bars and parti meant so much to them, pecially for those who were unr 21, that they were willg to put up wh Cohen’s advanc.

The five men who said Cohen groped them said that while they were dismayed and tried to manver away om him, they did not tell him to stop, bee they didn’t want to lose their nnectn to gay nightlife. It wasn’t jt about experiencg fun nights out wh their iends —  was about the sense of eedom and acceptance they felt when surround by other gay people, some s for the first time their liv, they said. Hall scribed Cohen as “a proud gay man wh no shame about his activy on social media, where he has asked adult men to send him sexual pictur, cludg those of their genals.

GAY CLUB OWNER: SHOOTG AMID A NEW ‘TYPE OF HATE’

There is no ditn that they knew about the allegatns of misnduct agast Cohen and Motel 23 reported by NBC allegatns ept to public viewCohen has hosted gay parti at glamoro New York nightclubs — cludg Goldbar, PHD Rooftop Lounge at the Dream Downtown hotel and Fishbowl at the Dream Midtown hotel — wh reliable crowds of attractive men and star-studd gut lists.

GAY CLUB OWNER, PAL SLA

Some of the world’s most well-known gay celebri, cludg Brish Olympic gold medalist Tom Daley, actor Neil Patrick Harris and rapper Lil Nas X, have been photographed wh Cohen or ma an appearance at Motel 23.

“It was known for him to be an olr man that liked the younger boys, ” said Bra Filter, a star of “RuPl’s Drag Race, ” who has performed New York Cy’s gay bars for over eight years.

Cohen has hosted events that drew some of the world’s most well-known gay celebri. Allegatns about Cohen’s behavr circulatg among New York’s gay men epted to public view early July, when dozens of allegatns about Motel 23 were posted on an anonymo Instagram acunt.

TWO NEW BARS THE GAYBORHOOD ARE OWNED BY PEOPLE OF LOR, MARKG A MAJOR SHIFT

At the door, the man, who said he had never met Cohen before and do not equent New York’s gay nightlife scene, said that Cohen was gog to let him for ee, but charge his iend, who is Black, $250 for admissn. ” Wh days, he had received a flood of msag wh allegatns, he anonymo claims posted by the acunt llectively allege that Motel 23’s owner turned gay parti and bars, which some see as queer safe spac, to toxic environments where young men were subjected to unwanted sexual advanc.

Brtany Bent, 31, said that this sprg, the bar’s door staff told her she would have to pay a $150 ver to enter, while the three iends who acpanied her — all gay men — uld get for ee.

MOSW'S LARGT GAY CLUB SHUTS ITS DOORS

“It’s jt so crazy that any discrimatn’s happeng at a gay bar, ” she said. Seekg New York newers Long before he opened Motel 23, Cohen had a knack for nnectg wh young, gay men new to New York Cy, reachg out to them wh weeks of their arrival, five men said.

“I thk he jt looked at my Facebook photos and jt had an klg like, ‘Oh, he’s got to be gay, ’” said T., who was then 17. “He knew I was gay before I knew I was gay. “To me, was clear that he was a proment person New York’s gay nightlife.

He started hostg parti at Phoenix Bar, a popular gay venue the East Village. ’ — bee I was wearg a palm tree shirt — ‘You gay?

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

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RSIA'S LARGT GAY CLUB HAS SHUT DOWN

(AP) — The -owner of the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub where a shooter turned a drag queen’s birthday celebratn to a massacre said he thks the shootg that and jured 17 others is a reflectn of anti-LGBTQ sentiment that has evolved om prejudice to cement. 1998-10-26 04:00:00 PDT MONTE RIO -- Invtigators are searchg for clu the executn-style murr of two Monte R men, one of them the longtime owner of several gay bars San Francis and Hans Grahlmann, 57, was found ad Saturday morng at his seclud home Monte R, a small Rsian River muny 4 wt of Guerneville.

But iends and -workers said he was Jason Bojore, 25, a iend of Grahlmann's who worked at his Rabow Cattle Club, one of Guerneville's bt-known bars terg to gays and County sheriff's puti searched several of Grahlmann's numero properti on Sunday but were tight-lipped about their vtigatn.

He reportedly had been workg for the Rabow Cattle Club for year or hippie to gay entreprenr<Grahlmann's iends and associat - who lled him Hans - said they were stunned at his ath. "Grahlmann was not proment San Francis's gay muny; iends said he shunned publicy.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

But he was an owner and manager of gay clubs as far back as the early 1970s and had helped raise money the early days of gay polil activism.

"He vted the gay muny, " said Jeff Bridg, a iend and the general manager of the Rsian River Rort. "He was hirg openly gay people long before that was vogue. AdvertisementArticle ntu below this adWayne Friday, a lumnist for the Bay Area Reporter, a weekly gay newspaper, first met Grahlmann about 25 years ago.

"Grahlmann donated to gay and lbian over the years but was never really an activist, Friday said.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

"AdvertisementArticle ntu below this adFriends said Grahlmann would open new bars, maly - but not exclively - gay clubs, build up bs and sell them for a prof. Friday and Bridg said Grahlmann strategilly vted gay clubs the 1970s and ' unpretent eccentric<Grahlmann was scribed by iends as eccentric and, Bridg' words, a man who enjoyed "phg people's buttons. Two bars opened recently the Gayborhood that are owned and operated by people of lor, markg a big culture shift for the LGBTQ enclave Center Cy, where racism has been documented for years.

OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG AMID A NEW ‘TYPE OF HATE’

Racism has been scribed as prevalent Philly’s gay nightlife sce at least the 1980s. Philly drag queen Ta Montgomery has felt the unrcurrent of racism the Gayborhood for her entire reer. The Gayborhood is further gentrifyg now — ’s often lled Midtown Village, and wel jt as many straight bachelorette parti as queer ctomers.

” She hop this is jt the start of a diversifyg Gayborhood. “Everybody says 13th Street is not gay anymore, ” said Cockatoo owner Krishnan. Could the diversifyg nightlife scene help rid the Gayborhood of racism?

Rsia's largt gay club, Mosw's Central Statn, is about to be no more, after a seri of antigay attacks and a cisn om the Mosw Arbratn Court that orred the club's owners to end their lease of the buildg, acrdg to Queer Rsia. Dziekan III/Getty ImagJuly 31, 2013Last week, Splash, a sprawlg two-floor gay club on Wt 17th Street Chelsea, announced that was closg on Aug. Oodl of gay ins — cludg Madonna, Brney Spears, Kylie Mogue, Katy Perry and both Pattis (LaBelle and LuPone) — had patronized the club or performed on s notorly ty stage.

GAY CLUB OWNER: SHOOTG AMID A NEW ‘TYPE OF HATE’

But s ntributn to gay culture was more mocratic. Opened 1991, jt as gay men were lonizg Chelsea, Splash pneered a new kd of gay bar: was big, sleek and shy. The format would be seen at gay bars worldwi, cludg the Raidd Bar Paris, the Saloon Mneapolis and the Glam club on Mykonos.