Even before the tragedy Orlando, New Yorker Michael Ryan knew the importance of LGBT spac. Ryan tells about his walkg tour of fallen gay bars and clubs, which were all marked wh the msage "GAY BAR WAS HERE."
Contents:
- DISVERG NEW YORK'S 'GAY BARS THAT ARE GONE'
- YOU COULD BE A GAY BAR RIGHT NOW AND NOT EVEN KNOW IT
- THE 12 BT GAY BARS IN NYC
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
- ‘MY FIRST GAY BAR’: RACHEL MADDOW, ANDY COHEN AND OTHERS SHARE THEIR COMG-OUT STORI
- BT GAY BARS IN NEW YORK CY
- ONE OF NEW YORK CY’S OLST GAY BARS IS NOW A HISTORIC LANDMARK
- HOW GAY BARS HAVE BEEN A BUILDG BLOCK OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNY
- THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
DISVERG NEW YORK'S 'GAY BARS THAT ARE GONE'
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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. I wanted to hear more of are a few rmative books that aim to document the changg social landsp of New York's gay nightlife spots and the effect the spac had on both civil rights Ameri and mastream arts and culture.
YOU COULD BE A GAY BAR RIGHT NOW AND NOT EVEN KNOW IT
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Gee Chncey's Gay New York and Charl Kaiser's The Gay Metropolis e to md, but for the most part, histori of LGBT nightlife are relegated to somethg like the ments sectn of a DataLounge thread.
We weren't sure how many people would show up for a two hour journey of closed gay bars, but by the time the walk started over 80 people of all ag and reasons for g were signg their nam to a sign- sheet adhered to a Bt Ltle Whorehoe Texas rerd ver actg as a clipboard and wag for the walk to got everyone's attentn. Absolutely no one on the New York Cy Landmarks Commissn had given the thory, but armed wh a stencil that read "GAY BAR WAS HERE" a member of the walkg crowd marked the siwalk wh the bright chalk at each stop.
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We heard about the plac where dis was born, where Barbra Streisand ma her nightclub but, where gay New Yorkers protted prejudice long before Stonewall, and talked about the toll the AIDS crisis took on the cy. Apparent too was the lack of opportuni for gays across generatns (and ironilly, outsi of a bar settg) to learn om each other and pass down memori like so many of our straight neighbors have historilly done wh much for opportuny and a lol bs New York Cy is hard enough now, pecially nsirg wh the cy's risg rents and creasg penchant for natnal retailers. Owners of gay bars are battlg even more onts: the creasg e of mobile apps for means of nnectn stead of a barstool and, credibly, the growg polil acceptance of the LGBT muny.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
Jane Lynch, Alexanr Wang, Rosie O’Donnell and others reflect on what gay bars mean to them, the aftermath of the shootg Orlando, Fla. * gay bar in new york 2016 *
The importance of LGBT spac has only been heightened by the tragedy Orlando, where 49 people were killed si Pulse, a gay we celebrate LGBT historic prervatn ws like Print Obama namg Stonewall a Natnal Monument and Juli' -- se of the Mattache Society's "sip-" prott -- beg nomated for landmark stat, 's important to keep the prsure on elected officials to protect more LGBT historic s formally. In the meantime, whether be as historilly signifint as say Stonewall, culturally inic as someplace like Stud 54 or simply a rner dive bar that shows RuPl's Drag Race on Mondays, support your lol gay bar! MICHAEL RYAN is a former cy anizer for Jane's Walk NYC -- named for urban planner Jane Jabs -- and one of the creators of the "Gay Bars That Are Gone" walkg tour.
‘MY FIRST GAY BAR’: RACHEL MADDOW, ANDY COHEN AND OTHERS SHARE THEIR COMG-OUT STORI
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Vogel — a lanky, 34-year-old attorney and poet wh a mandg voice who serv as the executive director of The New York Prervatn Archive Project — spun tal of this fotten nightspot, a young man a pk tank top and navy shorts stenciled the words “Gay Bar Was Here” wh blue chalk on the siwalk.
Lombard for The New York TimThis guerilla-landmarked se was one of ne stops on Gay Bars That Are Gone, a ee tour offered as part of Jane’s Walk, which celebrat urban activist Jane Jabs each May.
” Lombard for The New York TimWh his cursy piqued, he pored over books cludg “Gay New York” by Gee Chncey and “The Gay Metropolis” by Charl Kaiser that documented New York’s fotten gay landmarks and illumated a lost gay subculture.
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He anized the first gay bar walk 2015, startg at the Roxy (515 Wt 18th Street), a dance club the 1990s, then headg east to the Limelight (47 Wt 20th Street), a former church that was the epicenter of the ’90s club kid universe, before headg south to the Anvil (500 Wt 14th Street), an after-hours sex club om the 1970s.
ONE OF NEW YORK CY’S OLST GAY BARS IS NOW A HISTORIC LANDMARK
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) Lombard for The New York TimTo make up for his relative youth, he joed forc wh Kyle Supley, 37, a fellow gay history buff and performer, to -host the walk 2016. ) There are enough dis balls, glter and rabows to choke a herd of unirns, which keeps the atmosphere light and is loted at 8 Christopher Street between Greenwich Avenue and Gay Street the Wt Village (212-929-9291).
AdvertisementSKIP Thornell/Associated PrsJune 13, 2016The lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny is no stranger to the 1969 police raid at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy that set off rts and helped touch off the morn gay-rights movement to the 1998 murr of Matthew Shepard to near-epimic levels of vlence agast transgenr women, the muny has been marked by flash of the massacre at a gay club Orlando, Fla., that left 49 ad and 53 others jured, Richard Kim, the executive edor of The Natn, wrote on Sunday that gay bars and clubs have often been sanctuari. And sometim those sanctuari have e unr are a few signifint Orleans, 1973Thirty-two people died when a fire swept through the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar the French Quarter, on June 24, 1973. ViotranscripttranscriptA Day of Mourng for the Gay CommunyIn support of the victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., hundreds gathered outsi the Stonewall Inn New York, where a rt 1969 helped lnch the gay rights support of the victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., hundreds gathered outsi the Stonewall Inn New York, where a rt 1969 helped lnch the gay rights movement.
HOW GAY BARS HAVE BEEN A BUILDG BLOCK OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNY
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”The New Orleans Tim-Piyune wrote 2013 that the lounge was “not jt any bar, but as a gay muny hangout where lols uld gather whout fear of social persecutn” at a time of tense anti-gay stigma.
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Stonewall Inn, 2010 and 2016The Stonewall Inn played a central role the morn gay rights movement, but has also seen antigay and anti-transgenr vlence recent men attacked another man the rtroom 2010 after he rmed them that they were a gay bar. “The realy is, if people are lookg to perpetrate anti-gay bias and vlence, there are very few plac this world that are safe once that tent has formed, ” Sharon Stapel, the former executive director of the New York Cy Anti-Vlence Project, said at the time of the March this year, a transgenr woman said she was sexually asslted the unisex rtroom. Christian Hansen for The New York TimJune 22, 2016For generatns of gays and lbians, pecially those for whom walkg to the sometime secret and darkened doorway of one was often the first step the g-out procs, gay bars have long held a signifint place their personal was never more apparent than the days followg the mass shootgs at Pulse, the gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., which 49 patrons lost their liv, and which prompted many to rell the nights they had spent siar settgs, and the sense of muny they found there.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
Charl Syk/Invisn, via Associated PrsAndy Cohen Televisn host and producerI ed to sneak away om my straight iends at Boston Universy and go to Chaps (gay bars often have hypermascule nam) Boston’s Back Bay. They were an pe om the (often uniendly) outsi world, packed every night of the week, and everyone si was a Heisler/The New York TimLarry Kramer Playwright, thor and activistIn 1953, gay bars were sry.
It would still be a bunch of years before gay bars would start beg ls sry, and a lot of Beck/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagJane Lynch ActrsThe first gay bar I ever went to was the Cubbyhole when was on Hudson Street the Wt Village. Brendan Hoffman/Getty ImagRachel Maddow Host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” The first time I went to a gay bar was 1990, thanks to a fairly terrible fake ID that I bought for $25.
Elizabeth Lippman for The New York Tim Honey DijonPerformerRialto Tap Chigo was the first black gay bar I went to, and what I really remember was the cracked tile dance floor.