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Contents:
- A GUI TO NYC'S GAY BARS
- THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
- TOP 5 GAY BARS NYC'S EAST VILLAGE
- HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
- GAY OLD TIM … 1969
A GUI TO NYC'S GAY BARS
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THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
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Bottom le: I've been workg hard at this rearch for most of my (almost) adult, my reviews of some notable NYC gay bars. I vised as many plac as I uld by neighborhood and clud optns om all of the boroughs except the Bronx, which appears not to have a sgle gay bar. Native New Yorker Eddie Gog talks about some of his favore gay bars the cy; be sure to leave yours the ments.
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Juli': Deemed New York's olst gay bar, as well as Greenwich Village's olst bar, Juli' is another hnt that has figured out. : NoJuli' is loted at 159 Wt 10th Street, (212) 243-1928; Hangar: For the most ethnilly mixed crowd that I've seen at a gay bar, The Hangar tak the ke.
TOP 5 GAY BARS NYC'S EAST VILLAGE
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Though they don't operate full-time as a gay bar, lots of NJ gays drive over the bridge to h up this Staten Island hotspot; as far as I know 's the only gay or gay-iendly bar on the Island. The East Village has long been Manhattan's alternative enclave, and s array of quirky (and sometim downright rnchy) gay bars reflect that anti-tablishment athetic. Here are some picks for the 5 bt gay bars NYC's East Village.
HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
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GAY OLD TIM … 1969
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Unr the guise of New York State’s liquor laws that barred “disorrly” premis, the State Liquor Authory and the New York Police Department regularly raid bars that tered to gay the law saw viance, however, the Mafia saw a goln bs opportuny. “Fat Tony, ” purchased the Stonewall Inn 1966 and transformed om a bar and rtrant that attracted straight clientele to a gay bar and nightclub. Dpe s ls-than-ial ndns, Stonewall quickly beme a popular statn the gay muny—even somethg of an stutn.
It was the only place where gay people uld openly dance close together, and for relatively ltle money, drag queens (who received a bter receptn at other bars), naways, homels LGBT youths and others uld be off the streets as long as the bar was open. To operate s gay bars, the Mafia greased the palms of the NYPD. “Fat Tony, ” for one, paid New York’s 6th Precct approximately $1, 200 a week, exchange for the police agreeg to turn a bld eye to the “cent nduct” occurrg behd closed Photo<em>An NYPD officer grabs someone by their hair as another officer clubs a young man durg a nontatn Greenwich Village after a Gay Power march New York, 1970.
David Carter explas his book Stonewall: The Rts That Sparked the Gay Revolutn, that durg a typil raid, bar owners would change the lights om blue to whe, warng ctomers to stop dancg and drkg. Sometim the ps even went to the extreme measure of sendg female officers to the bathroom to verify people’s get around laws that prohibed servg alhol to LGBT patrons, many gay bars—cludg the Stonewall—operated ostensibly as “bottle bars, ” private clubs where members would brg their own alhol.