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NYC's gayborhood Chelsea ed to be filled wh gay bars. Now has lost another one, G Lounge on 19th Street and longtime lols are mourng .

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NEW YORK GAY DISTRICT: CHELSEA

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New York is a mag for gays, wh the LGBT muny reprentg an timated 500, 000 people. Wh such a robt muny, 's clear that New York's populatn is one of the most gay-iendly the world.

Ined, there are plenty of gay plac throughout the cy. It's here where the gay civil rights movement started after the rt 1969. Dpe this history, 's Chelsea that holds the torch as the gayt neighborhood New York.

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Top Gay Clubs & Bars Chelsea: See reviews and photos of Gay Clubs & Bars Chelsea, New York Cy (New York) on Tripadvisor. * gay chelsea street *

Gay bars Chelsea. If you fancy venturg outsi of Chelsea, don't dispair, there are many more gay bars New York.

Disver the Metropolan Communy Church of New York (446 Wt 36th St) which serv as the church for the LGBT muny, and where gays n get married.

If "The Death of Chelsea's 8th Avenue" served as a stark remr of the post-Bloomberg era of New York Cy, I'm hopg today's photo say is a joyo time psule of the gayborhood's funnt days. The rner of 23rd and 8th, where gay Chelsea officially begs, was very un-gay when I arrived the late '90s that boasted a doughnut shop (I believe was lled S.

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Lookg back, the mise of the Big Cup 2005 was probably the nary the (gay) al me. That a place so vibrant and, along wh Splash, so inic -- screamg GAY NYC! -- uld no longer make such a gay neighborhood seemed almost impossible to prehend.

I don't know a gay man of a certa age who wasn't picked up at the Big Cup. Next to what beme Spce was briefly a gayish accsori and hat shop lled Gallerie H. A fantastic lightg shop lled Lightforms was on that block (now moved to 26th Street) -- which is now a gay clothg shop lled EFOR -- as was La Cha Lda, the bt Cuban-Che place  town.

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He was scribg the plot about a gay guy and his bt-gal-pal roommate. I'm told a gay sex club lled The Attic occupied the upstairs at 157 8th Ave., scribed by Huzbears like this:. After expandg to the Washgton market wh a lotn unr Cobalt on Dupont Circle's once-super-gay 17th Street, the rtrant seemed to lose s way.

(Years earlier was a gay leather bar lled the 17th Street Saloon.

(It's the Gay Avenue curse! But as the new crop of gays moved uptown, so too did Universal Gear, now dog brisk bs s Hell's Kchen lotn.

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Before my time there was also a gay bar lled the Chelsea Transfer that had "an elaborately rved woon bar, large smoked wdows overlookg the pestrian traffic of Eighth Avenue, and iendly staff. It later beme Candy Bar & Grill (known also as The Bistro at Candy Bar), another trendy gay rtrant back the day that peted wh Food Bar.

But I felt I would be remiss to not mentn the closg of The Dish, once the heart of the gayborhood where throngs of huner boys went for a cisy breakfast the day after a night out at Splash, G and the Roxy.

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NYC's gayborhood Chelsea ed to be filled wh gay bars. I jt nfirmed this wh G Lounge, a gay-bar staple Chelsea for 20 years.

All thgs to doBars & ClubsComedy ClubsGay Clubs & BarsDance Clubs & DissJazz Clubs & BarsPiano BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Greenwich VillageHell's KchenWt VillageChelseaGood for a Ray DayGood for CouplBudget-iendlyGood for KidsGood for Big GroupsHoneymoon spotGood for Adrenale SeekersHidn GemsFree EntryAdventuro3 plac sorted by traveler favorWhat travelers are saygWas my first time to this party and WOW!!! A seri of yg wood and steel stctur extendg to the Hudson River along the Wt Si Highway om Christopher Street up to Chelsea, the piers were popular gay cisg spots back the 1970s. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.

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Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. ”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down.

”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

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It is hard for me as a gay this untry. ”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.

That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. Gay History Morn Chelsea.

This article, prted wh Michael Shernoff's permissn, is a wonrful first-hand acunt of the transformatn of Chelsea om a gay perspective. Early Gay Activism Chelsea: Buildg a Queer Neighborhood. For recent immigrants to the gay Mec of Chelsea might seem that the neighborhood only.

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worked the Chelsea docks, Latos, a sprklg of upper-middle-class, and some pockets of gay. Such mographics ma Chelsea siar to San Francis's Castro before the gay flux.

The queer history of the lower wtsi of Manhattan prr to the current gay renaissance shows.

As gay men moved to Chelsea.

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Before the current gay. boom north of 14th Street ma Chelsea a gay neighborhood 's own right, Chelsea had been a.

Though not as crowd wh lbians and gay men as today, by the time I moved to Chelsea.

1975, already had a noticeable gay prence. There were bars for gay men Chelsea long. (on Wt Street), and even the first gay dance bar, the short lived Seventeenth Street Saloon on.

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