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• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
• HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
• INSI THE “SOHO HOE FOR LBIANS” AND THEIR FIRST HAMPTONS SHDIGELLIS PRENTS, THE VE-ONLY PARTY FOR WOMEN, IS CHANGG THE NEW YORK QUEER SCENE.BY HILARY WEAVERAUGT 10, 2017ELLIS PRENTS -FOUNRS KELSEY HUNTER, JANE GOLDSTE, SAGE FUCHS, AND BLAIRE PREISS AT THE ELLIS BEACH BASH.BY KATE RUNSDORF.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEALYSSA “BIG AL” ZOLA WAS ON THE B TO THE HAMPTONS, AND CHATTG UP HER NEW IENDS STG THE BACK. THEY ASKED YOUR BASIC SUMMER-MP-LEVEL ICEBREAKERS: “WHERE DO YOU LIVE THE CY?” “WHAT MA YOU MOVE HERE?” THEN ME THE MORE PRYG, BUT MAYBE OBV QUTN: “HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN OUT?”THIS WAS NOT THE HAMPTON JNEY, OR EVEN YOUR AVERAGE PARTY B; STOCKED WH ALHOL AND FLASHG LIGHTS, THE B (ONE OF TWO) WAS ON THE WAY TO EAST HAMPTON FOR THE FIRST-EVER BEACH PARTY HOSTED BY ELLIS PRENTS—AN VE-ONLY EVENT FOR, THE WORDS OF THEIR INSTAGRAM, “THE CUR, FLUID, TERTG, AND TERTED WOMEN OF NYC.”ZOLA, A 29-YEAR-OLD EVENT ORDATOR, HAS BEEN OUT 10 YEARS, AND FOUND HERSELF STUCK THE SAME ROUTE WHEN LIVG BOTH NEW YORK AND LOS ANGEL: WALK TO A BAR, FD YOUR GROUP OF IENDS, AND BEE “TOO BY PEACKG TO GET FULLY VOLVED A MUNY THAT’S RIGHT ONT OF YOU.”BUT THE B TO THE ELLIS BEACH BASH FOUND ZOLA EASILY CHATTG UP OTHER QUEER WOMEN, WHILE OTHERS DANCED AND SANG ALONG WH CLASSIC HS LIKE “DON’T YOU WANT ME BABY.”“THE PARTY B OUT THERE IMMEDIATELY CREATED A SENSE OF FUN AND EXCEMENT,” SHE SAID. “IT ALSO REALLY MA PEOPLE ENGAGE, MUNITE, AND GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER.”RECENT LLEGE GRADUAT JANE GOLDSTE, 24, BLAIRE PREISS, KELSEY HUNTER, AND SAGE FUCHS, ALL 23, FIRST THOUGHT UP ELLIS JANUARY, WHEN THE NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY NATIV MOVED BACK TO THE CY AND REALIZED THAT, BIS EACH OTHER, THEY HAD VIRTUALLY NO WORK OF QUEER WOMEN. THOUGH HOME TO A RECENTLY TIMATED 756,000 PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS L.G.B.T.Q., NEW YORK HAS FEW SIGNATED PUBLIC SPAC FOR QUEER WOMEN, PECIALLY AFTER THE SHUTTERG OF LBIAN BARS LIKE THE DALLOWAY AND MEOW MIX. WRG HER APRIL NEW YORK TIM SAY TLED “I WANT MY LBIAN BARS BACK,” KRISTA BURTON ARGUED, “WHAT WE’RE LOSG ARE PLAC THAT YOUNG, SHY, QUEER KIDS NEW CI N GO TO, KNOWG THEY’LL BE SURROUND, MAYBE FOR THE FIRST TIME, BY PEOPLE LIKE THEM.”LBIANS AREN’T THE ONLY PEOPLE LOOKG FOR A SPACE OF THEIR OWN; “SAFE SPAC” HAVE BEE BUZZWORDS ON LLEGE MP ACROSS THE UNTRY THE MIDST OF THE “BUILD THAT WALL!” TMP ERA, AND GAY BARS SMALL TOWNS REMA A HAVEN FOR L.G.B.T.Q. PEOPLE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE THEM. BUT IF THE WG N CREATE A CLUB FOR S OWN SELF-SELECTED GROUP OF UPWARDLY MOBILE NEW YORK WOMEN, WHY SHOULDN’T A QUEER VERSN EXIST, TOO?GOLDSTE AND PREISS, A UPLE WHO MET ON THE DATG APP HGE, AND HUNTER AND FUCHS, ALSO A UPLE, WANTED TO CREATE A SPACE FOR WOMEN THAT DIDN’T VOLVE YELLG OVER ONE ANOTHER A CROWD BAR. THERE ARE REGULAR QUEER NIGHTS, AT BROOKLYN VENU LIKE THE WOODS AND UNN POOL. BUT WH ALL RPECT TO THE PARTI, GOLDSTE TOLD VANY FAIR THAT THE GROUP WANTED TO CREATE SO MUCH MORE THAN A PARTY; THEY WANTED TO CREATE AN UPSLE “EXPERIENCE,” SOMETHG MORE LIKE “THE SOHO HOE OF LBIANS.”BY KATE RUNSDORF.THEY NAMED THEIR EVENT ELLIS FOR ACTIVIST RUTH ELLIS, WHO DIED 2001 AT THE AGE OF 101, AFTER S OF OFFERG HER HOME AS AN UNRGROUND HAVEN FOR L.G.B.T.Q. THE IENDS CID TO MAKE THEIR VERSN OF ELLIS’S GET-TOGETHERS BY OFFERG A SPECIAL NIGHT OUT AT A LUXUR HOTEL OR BAR FOR NEW YORK CY QUEER WOMEN. THE PCH TO VENU WAS SIMPLE: THEY WOULD HOST THE PARTI ON THE BARS’ OFF-NIGHTS—A TUDAY OR WEDNDAY—AND, AS PREISS PUT , “PACK TO THE GILLS WH WONRFUL, SMART, BETIFUL PEOPLE.”THE PARTI ARE VE-ONLY, BUT NOT AS STRICT AS, SAY, SOHO HOE; ONCE A WOMAN RECEIV AN VE, SHE IS WELE TO REFER A IEND, WHO WILL BE ADD TO THE VE AND DISTRIBUTN LIST. RATHER THAN CHARGE A MEMBERSHIP FEE OR A VER CHARGE, ELLIS TAK A CUT OF THE BAR TAB AT EACH EVENT TO STOCK AWAY FOR S NEXT ONE.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHPREISS AND GOLDSTE SAID THAT A MA NVERSATN STARTER AT AN ELLIS PARTY IS, “SO, HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT ELLIS?” OFTEN, THE ANSWER IS INSTAGRAM, WHERE PREISS, WHO NS THE ACUNT, NOT THAT WOMEN LOVE “SLIDG TO THE DMS” TO ASK MORE ABOUT THE EVENTS.“WE ONLY EVER TAKE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HEARD OF OR WHO HAVE BEEN REMEND TO ,” PREISS SAID. “IT CREAT THIS SORT OF VERY HEALTHY FORTG ENVIRONMENT. I BELONG HERE BEE I’VE BEEN ASKED TO BE HERE, AND I FEEL FORTABLE REMENDG SOMEONE ELSE THAT I KNOW WOULD LOVE TO BE HERE.”ANYONE WHO INTIFI AS A WOMAN, KNOWS OF, AND WANTS TO ATTEND AND ELLIS PARTY IS WELE, REGARDLS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN. THOUGH ELLIS IS AIMED AT QUEER WOMEN, THE GROUP DON’T WANT TO DISCRIMATE TOWARD ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE CUR AND WANT TO MEET WOMEN THE QUEER MUNY. AN EARLY INSTAGRAM PTN READS, “EVEN IF YOU’RE JT TTG THE WATERS.”INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.“PEOPLE OFTEN INTIFY ME AS TOTALLY STRAIGHT, WHICH N BE PROBLEMATIC FOR SOMEONE WHO IS TRYG TO EXPERIMENT BUT IS TOO NERVO TO BE TERRIBLY BOLD,” SAID A IEND OF PREISS’S WHO ASKED THAT HER NAME BE WHHELD. “AT ELLIS, THERE’S REALLY A FEELG OF FORT AND MUNY AND ’S VERY CLIVE.”WH THE HELP OF AN ANGEL VTOR THEY CLED TO NAME, THE ELLIS FOUNRS PLANNED THEIR FIRST EVENT APRIL AT SWANKY MANHATTAN HOTEL SIXTY SOHO’S GORDON BAR, WHERE THEY OFFERED AN OPEN BAR.“TO SEE A ROOM FILLED WH SUCH BETIFUL AND SMART WOMEN ALL EAGERLY AND EQUALLY EXCED TO MEET ONE ANOTHER PROVED THERE WAS A VOID THE N.Y.C. LBIAN SOCIAL LIFE,” FUCHS WROTE AN E-MAIL ABOUT THE BUT PARTY. “THAT NIGHT EXCEED MY EXPECTATNS, THE ROOM WAS FILLED, THE SPIR WAS FECT, AND THE FEEDBACK WAS POSIVELY IMMENSE. THIS ENERGY HAS ONLY EXPAND AND RRIED TO OUR MOST RECENT EVENTS.”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHSTACY LENTZ, -OWNER OF HISTORIC NEW YORK CY GAY BAR STONEWALL INN, WAS AT THE ELLIS PRI PARTY HELD AT UP&DOWN, AND LLED ONE OF THE MOST IMPRSIVE EVENTS SHE’S SEEN THE TWO S THAT SHE’S BEEN OUT.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.“IT WAS VERY OL TO SEE A YOUNGER GENERATN PICK UP THE TORCH AND REALLY CREATE A NICE UPPER-SLE EVENT BUT ALSO CREATG NNECTNS AND BRGG DIFFERENT PEOPLE FOR THAT,” SHE SAID. “SOMETIM I BASH THE YOUNGER GENERATN BEE THEY’RE SO BY ON INSTAGRAM AND OTHER PLAC THAT THEY’RE NOT FORMG A SOCIAL NNECTN, AND I THK [ELLIS IS] REALLY TRYG TO FORM A SOCIAL NNECTN. THEY WERE ABLE TO GET AN AMAZG CROWD OF FASCATG WOMEN OF DIFFERENT AG, DIFFERENT RAC ALL THE SAME ROOM THAT TYPILLY YOU WOULD NOT SEE AT ALL THE OTHER PARTI, ALL THE OTHER EVENTS, AND ALL THE OTHER PLAC.”FOR THEIR EXPANSN TO THE HAMPTONS, THE ELLIS FOUNRS SET THEIR SIGHTS ON THE BEACH. THEY HIRED A TERER WHO WOULD SERVE BOTH FOOD AND ALHOL AND SET UP CHAIRS AND TABL VERED CRISP WHE TABLECLOTHS. THEY PROCURED A SPECIAL PERM TO HOST AN EVENT THE PUBLIC SPOT, AND EVEN ADD A FIRE P FOR S’MOR, LED WH HAY-BAL AND WHE BEANBAGS. A DANCG AREA, PLETE WH A D.J., SAT JT BEYOND THE TABL.FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE ELLIS ANIZERS CHARGED VER FOR THE PARTY—$100 THAT CLUD TRANSPORTATN, DRK, AND FOOD. A 30 PERCENT OFF PROMO TOOK THE PRICE DOWN TO $70—A.K.A. AN AVERAGE BAR TAB FOR A NIGHT OUT MANHATTAN.THE SCENE EAST HAMPTON LOOKED LIKE A LAID-BACK BUT UPSLE LBIAN WEDDG: CLEAN, CLASSY, AND SEEMGLY PULLED OFF WHOUT A MAJOR MELTDOWN. FOR THE MOST PART, PREISS AND GOLDSTE AGREED, THIS WAS TE, NOT UNTG THE TY BEACH BALLS THEY’D ORRED, WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A LTLE TOO TY.AS THE SUN SET, ATTEN SHED TO TAKE SELFI AGAST A CLASSIC HAMPTONS BACKDROP OF WHE DUN AND GRASS, WHERE AN UNBELIEVABLY LARGE HOME LOOMED THE BACKGROUND. IT WAS ALL THE UAL ACTN OF A NIGHT OUT ON THE TOWN WHOUT THE STRS OF L OR WORRYG WHETHER THEIR EX WILL BE SI. A FEW AWAY, GAY MEN WERE DOG THEIR ANNUAL NQUERG OF THE FIRE ISLAND BEACH, BUT EAST HAMPTON THE SHORE BELONGED, FOR A FEW HOURS, TO WOMEN.“IT’S SIAR TO, LIKE, A FIRE ISLAND VIBE AND SO WHEN EVERYONE’S OUT OF THE CY, LETS EVERYONE TAKE A BREATH, LET THEIR HAIR DOWN,” ZOLA SAID OF HER ELLIS BEACH BASH EXPERIENCE. “THERE WAS SO MUCH MORE TOXG AND NOBODY TRYG TO LOOK THEIR BT TO WALK TO THE BAR.”AS THE B ARRIVED BACK MANHATTAN AROUND 1 A.M., A MUCH MORE TYPIL AFTER-PARTY WAS ASSEMBLED AT THE CUBBYHOLE, SUCH A NEW YORK STUTN THAT MADONNA AND SANDRA BERNHARD ED TO GO THERE. THE BAR, FULL OF NOISE AND TV GLOW, WAS MAYBE THE OPPOSE OF A PRIVATE HAMPTONS SOIREE . . . BUT THE NEXT ELLIS PARTY ISN’T SO FAR AWAY.SEE JENNA LYONS FLOATG ON A BLOW-UP SWAN THE SOHO HOE POOL1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONER HEATHERTON AND HARLEY VIERA-NEWTON.HILARY WEAVER
• NEW YORK'S GAY SCENE/S - NEW YORK CY FOM
• 8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN
• GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

New York Cy, the birthplace of the Gay Rights movement at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, offers one of the largt and most diverse gay scen the world.

Gay New York n be a b overwhelmg, but that's also part of the thrill -- your optns for what (or who) to enjoy at any time are endls.

While gay hubs like Chelsea, Hell's Kchen, and the Village are certaly worth visg, vibrant queer scen have spread to the Upper Wt Si, Queens, Park Slope, and Brooklyn. NYC also boasts perhaps the most tense gay nightlife -- is, after all, the cy that never sleeps.

THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS

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HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

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INSI THE “SOHO HOE FOR LBIANS” AND THEIR FIRST HAMPTONS SHDIGELLIS PRENTS, THE VE-ONLY PARTY FOR WOMEN, IS CHANGG THE NEW YORK QUEER SCENE.BY HILARY WEAVERAUGT 10, 2017ELLIS PRENTS -FOUNRS KELSEY HUNTER, JANE GOLDSTE, SAGE FUCHS, AND BLAIRE PREISS AT THE ELLIS BEACH BASH.BY KATE RUNSDORF.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEALYSSA “BIG AL” ZOLA WAS ON THE B TO THE HAMPTONS, AND CHATTG UP HER NEW IENDS STG THE BACK. THEY ASKED YOUR BASIC SUMMER-MP-LEVEL ICEBREAKERS: “WHERE DO YOU LIVE THE CY?” “WHAT MA YOU MOVE HERE?” THEN ME THE MORE PRYG, BUT MAYBE OBV QUTN: “HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN OUT?”THIS WAS NOT THE HAMPTON JNEY, OR EVEN YOUR AVERAGE PARTY B; STOCKED WH ALHOL AND FLASHG LIGHTS, THE B (ONE OF TWO) WAS ON THE WAY TO EAST HAMPTON FOR THE FIRST-EVER BEACH PARTY HOSTED BY ELLIS PRENTS—AN VE-ONLY EVENT FOR, THE WORDS OF THEIR INSTAGRAM, “THE CUR, FLUID, TERTG, AND TERTED WOMEN OF NYC.”ZOLA, A 29-YEAR-OLD EVENT ORDATOR, HAS BEEN OUT 10 YEARS, AND FOUND HERSELF STUCK THE SAME ROUTE WHEN LIVG BOTH NEW YORK AND LOS ANGEL: WALK TO A BAR, FD YOUR GROUP OF IENDS, AND BEE “TOO BY PEACKG TO GET FULLY VOLVED A MUNY THAT’S RIGHT ONT OF YOU.”BUT THE B TO THE ELLIS BEACH BASH FOUND ZOLA EASILY CHATTG UP OTHER QUEER WOMEN, WHILE OTHERS DANCED AND SANG ALONG WH CLASSIC HS LIKE “DON’T YOU WANT ME BABY.”“THE PARTY B OUT THERE IMMEDIATELY CREATED A SENSE OF FUN AND EXCEMENT,” SHE SAID. “IT ALSO REALLY MA PEOPLE ENGAGE, MUNITE, AND GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER.”RECENT LLEGE GRADUAT JANE GOLDSTE, 24, BLAIRE PREISS, KELSEY HUNTER, AND SAGE FUCHS, ALL 23, FIRST THOUGHT UP ELLIS JANUARY, WHEN THE NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY NATIV MOVED BACK TO THE CY AND REALIZED THAT, BIS EACH OTHER, THEY HAD VIRTUALLY NO WORK OF QUEER WOMEN. THOUGH HOME TO A RECENTLY TIMATED 756,000 PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS L.G.B.T.Q., NEW YORK HAS FEW SIGNATED PUBLIC SPAC FOR QUEER WOMEN, PECIALLY AFTER THE SHUTTERG OF LBIAN BARS LIKE THE DALLOWAY AND MEOW MIX. WRG HER APRIL NEW YORK TIM SAY TLED “I WANT MY LBIAN BARS BACK,” KRISTA BURTON ARGUED, “WHAT WE’RE LOSG ARE PLAC THAT YOUNG, SHY, QUEER KIDS NEW CI N GO TO, KNOWG THEY’LL BE SURROUND, MAYBE FOR THE FIRST TIME, BY PEOPLE LIKE THEM.”LBIANS AREN’T THE ONLY PEOPLE LOOKG FOR A SPACE OF THEIR OWN; “SAFE SPAC” HAVE BEE BUZZWORDS ON LLEGE MP ACROSS THE UNTRY THE MIDST OF THE “BUILD THAT WALL!” TMP ERA, AND GAY BARS SMALL TOWNS REMA A HAVEN FOR L.G.B.T.Q. PEOPLE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE THEM. BUT IF THE WG N CREATE A CLUB FOR S OWN SELF-SELECTED GROUP OF UPWARDLY MOBILE NEW YORK WOMEN, WHY SHOULDN’T A QUEER VERSN EXIST, TOO?GOLDSTE AND PREISS, A UPLE WHO MET ON THE DATG APP HGE, AND HUNTER AND FUCHS, ALSO A UPLE, WANTED TO CREATE A SPACE FOR WOMEN THAT DIDN’T VOLVE YELLG OVER ONE ANOTHER A CROWD BAR. THERE ARE REGULAR QUEER NIGHTS, AT BROOKLYN VENU LIKE THE WOODS AND UNN POOL. BUT WH ALL RPECT TO THE PARTI, GOLDSTE TOLD VANY FAIR THAT THE GROUP WANTED TO CREATE SO MUCH MORE THAN A PARTY; THEY WANTED TO CREATE AN UPSLE “EXPERIENCE,” SOMETHG MORE LIKE “THE SOHO HOE OF LBIANS.”BY KATE RUNSDORF.THEY NAMED THEIR EVENT ELLIS FOR ACTIVIST RUTH ELLIS, WHO DIED 2001 AT THE AGE OF 101, AFTER S OF OFFERG HER HOME AS AN UNRGROUND HAVEN FOR L.G.B.T.Q. THE IENDS CID TO MAKE THEIR VERSN OF ELLIS’S GET-TOGETHERS BY OFFERG A SPECIAL NIGHT OUT AT A LUXUR HOTEL OR BAR FOR NEW YORK CY QUEER WOMEN. THE PCH TO VENU WAS SIMPLE: THEY WOULD HOST THE PARTI ON THE BARS’ OFF-NIGHTS—A TUDAY OR WEDNDAY—AND, AS PREISS PUT , “PACK TO THE GILLS WH WONRFUL, SMART, BETIFUL PEOPLE.”THE PARTI ARE VE-ONLY, BUT NOT AS STRICT AS, SAY, SOHO HOE; ONCE A WOMAN RECEIV AN VE, SHE IS WELE TO REFER A IEND, WHO WILL BE ADD TO THE VE AND DISTRIBUTN LIST. RATHER THAN CHARGE A MEMBERSHIP FEE OR A VER CHARGE, ELLIS TAK A CUT OF THE BAR TAB AT EACH EVENT TO STOCK AWAY FOR S NEXT ONE.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHPREISS AND GOLDSTE SAID THAT A MA NVERSATN STARTER AT AN ELLIS PARTY IS, “SO, HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT ELLIS?” OFTEN, THE ANSWER IS INSTAGRAM, WHERE PREISS, WHO NS THE ACUNT, NOT THAT WOMEN LOVE “SLIDG TO THE DMS” TO ASK MORE ABOUT THE EVENTS.“WE ONLY EVER TAKE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HEARD OF OR WHO HAVE BEEN REMEND TO ,” PREISS SAID. “IT CREAT THIS SORT OF VERY HEALTHY FORTG ENVIRONMENT. I BELONG HERE BEE I’VE BEEN ASKED TO BE HERE, AND I FEEL FORTABLE REMENDG SOMEONE ELSE THAT I KNOW WOULD LOVE TO BE HERE.”ANYONE WHO INTIFI AS A WOMAN, KNOWS OF, AND WANTS TO ATTEND AND ELLIS PARTY IS WELE, REGARDLS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN. THOUGH ELLIS IS AIMED AT QUEER WOMEN, THE GROUP DON’T WANT TO DISCRIMATE TOWARD ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE CUR AND WANT TO MEET WOMEN THE QUEER MUNY. AN EARLY INSTAGRAM PTN READS, “EVEN IF YOU’RE JT TTG THE WATERS.”INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.“PEOPLE OFTEN INTIFY ME AS TOTALLY STRAIGHT, WHICH N BE PROBLEMATIC FOR SOMEONE WHO IS TRYG TO EXPERIMENT BUT IS TOO NERVO TO BE TERRIBLY BOLD,” SAID A IEND OF PREISS’S WHO ASKED THAT HER NAME BE WHHELD. “AT ELLIS, THERE’S REALLY A FEELG OF FORT AND MUNY AND ’S VERY CLIVE.”WH THE HELP OF AN ANGEL VTOR THEY CLED TO NAME, THE ELLIS FOUNRS PLANNED THEIR FIRST EVENT APRIL AT SWANKY MANHATTAN HOTEL SIXTY SOHO’S GORDON BAR, WHERE THEY OFFERED AN OPEN BAR.“TO SEE A ROOM FILLED WH SUCH BETIFUL AND SMART WOMEN ALL EAGERLY AND EQUALLY EXCED TO MEET ONE ANOTHER PROVED THERE WAS A VOID THE N.Y.C. LBIAN SOCIAL LIFE,” FUCHS WROTE AN E-MAIL ABOUT THE BUT PARTY. “THAT NIGHT EXCEED MY EXPECTATNS, THE ROOM WAS FILLED, THE SPIR WAS FECT, AND THE FEEDBACK WAS POSIVELY IMMENSE. THIS ENERGY HAS ONLY EXPAND AND RRIED TO OUR MOST RECENT EVENTS.”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHSTACY LENTZ, -OWNER OF HISTORIC NEW YORK CY GAY BAR STONEWALL INN, WAS AT THE ELLIS PRI PARTY HELD AT UP&DOWN, AND LLED ONE OF THE MOST IMPRSIVE EVENTS SHE’S SEEN THE TWO S THAT SHE’S BEEN OUT.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.“IT WAS VERY OL TO SEE A YOUNGER GENERATN PICK UP THE TORCH AND REALLY CREATE A NICE UPPER-SLE EVENT BUT ALSO CREATG NNECTNS AND BRGG DIFFERENT PEOPLE FOR THAT,” SHE SAID. “SOMETIM I BASH THE YOUNGER GENERATN BEE THEY’RE SO BY ON INSTAGRAM AND OTHER PLAC THAT THEY’RE NOT FORMG A SOCIAL NNECTN, AND I THK [ELLIS IS] REALLY TRYG TO FORM A SOCIAL NNECTN. THEY WERE ABLE TO GET AN AMAZG CROWD OF FASCATG WOMEN OF DIFFERENT AG, DIFFERENT RAC ALL THE SAME ROOM THAT TYPILLY YOU WOULD NOT SEE AT ALL THE OTHER PARTI, ALL THE OTHER EVENTS, AND ALL THE OTHER PLAC.”FOR THEIR EXPANSN TO THE HAMPTONS, THE ELLIS FOUNRS SET THEIR SIGHTS ON THE BEACH. THEY HIRED A TERER WHO WOULD SERVE BOTH FOOD AND ALHOL AND SET UP CHAIRS AND TABL VERED CRISP WHE TABLECLOTHS. THEY PROCURED A SPECIAL PERM TO HOST AN EVENT THE PUBLIC SPOT, AND EVEN ADD A FIRE P FOR S’MOR, LED WH HAY-BAL AND WHE BEANBAGS. A DANCG AREA, PLETE WH A D.J., SAT JT BEYOND THE TABL.FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE ELLIS ANIZERS CHARGED VER FOR THE PARTY—$100 THAT CLUD TRANSPORTATN, DRK, AND FOOD. A 30 PERCENT OFF PROMO TOOK THE PRICE DOWN TO $70—A.K.A. AN AVERAGE BAR TAB FOR A NIGHT OUT MANHATTAN.THE SCENE EAST HAMPTON LOOKED LIKE A LAID-BACK BUT UPSLE LBIAN WEDDG: CLEAN, CLASSY, AND SEEMGLY PULLED OFF WHOUT A MAJOR MELTDOWN. FOR THE MOST PART, PREISS AND GOLDSTE AGREED, THIS WAS TE, NOT UNTG THE TY BEACH BALLS THEY’D ORRED, WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A LTLE TOO TY.AS THE SUN SET, ATTEN SHED TO TAKE SELFI AGAST A CLASSIC HAMPTONS BACKDROP OF WHE DUN AND GRASS, WHERE AN UNBELIEVABLY LARGE HOME LOOMED THE BACKGROUND. IT WAS ALL THE UAL ACTN OF A NIGHT OUT ON THE TOWN WHOUT THE STRS OF L OR WORRYG WHETHER THEIR EX WILL BE SI. A FEW AWAY, GAY MEN WERE DOG THEIR ANNUAL NQUERG OF THE FIRE ISLAND BEACH, BUT EAST HAMPTON THE SHORE BELONGED, FOR A FEW HOURS, TO WOMEN.“IT’S SIAR TO, LIKE, A FIRE ISLAND VIBE AND SO WHEN EVERYONE’S OUT OF THE CY, LETS EVERYONE TAKE A BREATH, LET THEIR HAIR DOWN,” ZOLA SAID OF HER ELLIS BEACH BASH EXPERIENCE. “THERE WAS SO MUCH MORE TOXG AND NOBODY TRYG TO LOOK THEIR BT TO WALK TO THE BAR.”AS THE B ARRIVED BACK MANHATTAN AROUND 1 A.M., A MUCH MORE TYPIL AFTER-PARTY WAS ASSEMBLED AT THE CUBBYHOLE, SUCH A NEW YORK STUTN THAT MADONNA AND SANDRA BERNHARD ED TO GO THERE. THE BAR, FULL OF NOISE AND TV GLOW, WAS MAYBE THE OPPOSE OF A PRIVATE HAMPTONS SOIREE . . . BUT THE NEXT ELLIS PARTY ISN’T SO FAR AWAY.SEE JENNA LYONS FLOATG ON A BLOW-UP SWAN THE SOHO HOE POOL1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONER HEATHERTON AND HARLEY VIERA-NEWTON.HILARY WEAVER

Both s history and s thrivg morn-day LGBTQ scene make an easy choice for gay travelers to vis New York. Gay New York: is New York gay iendly? It’s home to the largt LGBTQ populatn the Uned Stat, and ’s unlikely that you’d enunter any issu if you’re openly gay while visg.

If you do fd yourself any suatns that need assistance om LGBTQ legal, health, or advocy groups, The Gay Centre and the New York Anti-Vlence Project n offer substantial help.

Where are the gay areas New York? New York’s gay scene nowadays is mostly ncentrated the Hell’s Kchen neighborhood of New York. However, s historil roots Chelsea and Greenwich Village are still gog strong, and you’ll fd some of New York’s most inic gay bars the areas.

NEW YORK'S GAY SCENE/S - NEW YORK CY FOM

You’ll also fd gay bars all over the cy, particularly East Village, Brooklyn, and Queens. Gay bars New York.

New York has many amazg gay bars and clubs. In the 1960s, police raids on gay bars happened equently.

Although historilly the bar’s owners were not always receptive to the ia, Greenwich Village’s Juli’ is generally nsired the olst gay bar New York Cy. In 1966, the cy was orrg bartenrs not to serve LGBTQ people and revokg the liquor licens of gay bars. The Mattache Society, one of the earlit gay rights anizatns the Uned Stat, held a “sip-” prott, which ultimately helped overturn the bans.

8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN

Loted Hell’s Kchen, Indtry is one of the most popular gay bars New York, operatg sce 1991.

Named “New York’s Bt Gay Bar” by magaz such as GetOut and The Village Voice, Indtry is bt experienced on Saturday nights when attracts the biggt crowds and on Thursdays when featur Queen, one of the bar’s longt-nng and most popular weekly drag shows.

The Townhoe Bar has been a fixture of New York’s gay scene for over 25 years. The venue ed to be a gay dive bar and, although ’s not que as gay-foced anymore, you’ll still fd a sizable queer crowd here.

GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

BOXERS is a gay sports bar, featurg plasma screen TVs, pool tabl, and plenty of drks. It’s a popular hangout spot for gay sports leagu/teams and hosts equent events and themed parti, cludg “80s Night” and “Jock Night. Gay eateri New York.

Whether they’re owned by gay people, loted gay areas, or jt popular wh gay clientele, the eateri are the perfect plac to refuel as you move om sightseeg to clubs.