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Contents:

• THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
• THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
• STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR
• STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
• LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS NEW YORK, NY

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

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THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC

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Larger gay parti New York are hosted monthly or a few tim per year, but there’s almost always at least one major gay party happeng every weekend.

LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

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They’re well-known for hostg large circu parti (like MEAT NYC mentned above), and a bunch of other popular gay parti like Ty Tea, Love Prism, and DILF XL. FLY Sundays is a summertime rooftop gay party at the Monarch Rooftop wh sweet gummy-bear u punch cktails, upbeat mic and a betiful view of the Empire State Buildg. 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.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

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IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER

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STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

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STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED

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LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS NEW YORK, NY

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