Rememberg the Lost Gay Bars of NYC - PAPER Magaze

Contents:

• THE HISTORY OF GAY NIGHTLIFE NEW YORK CY
• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
• MAN HELD FOR 1980 KILLGS OUTSI A GAY BAR SEEKS RELEASE FROM HOSPAL
• WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
• NEW YORK’S OWN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE, NOW BARELY REMEMBERED

THE HISTORY OF GAY NIGHTLIFE NEW YORK CY

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. There's a walkg tour New York to memorate beloved gay bars and clubs that have closed down.

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

There will always be gay bars, but will they be as vivid, sexy, and subversive as the hnts of yore?

MAN HELD FOR 1980 KILLGS OUTSI A GAY BAR SEEKS RELEASE FROM HOSPAL

The history of NYC nightlife is studd wh the memori of fascatg boît that attracted gays sperate need of nnectn, then ultimately fell away as newer spots and trends emerged.

Once a year—for three years a row—they've done Gay Bars That Are Gone, an rmative walk as part of Jane Jabsftival, May. What's your favore lost NYC gay bar? Kyle: My favore is probably the Nth Circle (a fab Wt 10th Street steakhoe-turned-gay-bar full of leather clon, twks, htlers, and celebry drop-s, all eher cisg, playg pool, dog dgs, or bbg agast each other.

What are your 'Gay Bars That Are Gone' walks walks like? We try to ver different typ of plac--gay dance clubs, leather scene, piano bars, Rose's Turn, the old Duplex space.

WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)

")So Walt Whman was openly gay? Michael: Not he went to a gay bar. Michael: It was a bohemian bar, so we don't have the language to put "gay bar" explicly.

We were outsi the Me Shaft [a rnchy 1970s/'80s gay sex club on Washgton Street]. Michael: It's really the lack of the gay spac, wh real tate beg what is.

Now you n stay your hometown and live your gay life, you don't have to e to a metropolan cy and have that nnectn.

NEW YORK’S OWN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE, NOW BARELY REMEMBERED

A map was created of all gay bars and gay spac om 1859 to now. As you say, younger gays generally e apps for sex.

Michael: It's great to see new gay bars open. I've been gog out Jackson Heights a lot recently and that's a totally separate gayborhood. The gay bars are spac that seem a ltle more tertg to When I go to Boston or other smaller ci, the people are more open and willg to talk to each other.

In fact, the people who were most at risk – this se, gay men who met for hook-ups at New York Cy bars that served the muny – were given no staed or amplified warngs by eher the thori or the media, creatg a safe space for the murrer to ntue to wreak havoc. In fact, the se got so ltle attentn relative to s horror that today few remember , even wh the gay, three s after the murrs, journalist Elon Green has wrten a book tled Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York that go beyond the facts of the story to reveal the larger issu that surround them.