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Contents:

• GAY BAR MANAGER RIGNS OVER ‘RACIST’ TEXTS
• WHY GAY MEN MAKE THE BT BOSS
• GAY BAR MANAGER AWARD €20,000 AFTER BOSS LLS HIM ‘QUEER’ ALMOST EVERY DAY
• TWO NEW BARS THE GAYBORHOOD ARE OWNED BY PEOPLE OF LOR, MARKG A MAJOR SHIFT
• LEATHERHEAD FC MANAGER LE TUFFS: ‘I’M SHOWG YOUNG PEOPLE YOU N BE GAY AND A SUCCS’
• WHAT I LEARNED WORKG A NAKED GAY BAR
• GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL
• HOW TO BEE POPULAR AT A GAY BAR
• GAY USA
• GAY NEW YORK CY

GAY BAR MANAGER RIGNS OVER ‘RACIST’ TEXTS

If you fd yourself on the top-floor club, you n dance unr 20-foot ceilgs and fd yourself entranced by the granur of a spend by Cole Salado for ThrillistWhile The Q reviv some of the gr and allure synonymo wh classic NYC gay clubs, arriv wh an add emphasis on rpect and cln. “Vlent rhetoric or actn, non-nsensual touchg, or any form of racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, sizeist, ageist, ableist nduct will not be tolerated. And while ’s not nclive, evince suggts that one of the reasons Ollanr-Krane is so effective is that he’s part of a new breed—gay managers—who uld be beg Ameri’s most sirable the Edors of DetailsIn The G Quotient: Why Gay Executiv Are Excellg as Lears...

And What Every Manager Needs to Know, thor and USC bs-school profsor Kirk Snyr argu that gay boss embody a style of personalized attentn that allows high-matenance Gen Xers and Yers to maximize their performance. “Gay executiv tend to look at how each dividual brgs unique abili, and they see their job as figurg out how bt to take advantage of those skills, “ he fact, durg Snyr’s five-year study of Amerin executiv, he stumbled on some startlg fdgs: Gay male boss produce 35 to 60 percent higher levels of employee engagement, satisfactn, and morale than straight boss.

And the Saratoga Instute, a group that measur the effectivens of HR partments, found that a study of 20, 000 workers who had qu their jobs, the primary motivator for jumpg ship was their supervisors’ what mak gay boss different? “Gay people are nstantly havg to dodge and weave and asss how and where they’re gog as they grow up, “ says Snyr.

WHY GAY MEN MAKE THE BT BOSS

“ In other words, your boss is ol wh your leavg a ltle early one day a week to pick up your kid om school, or happy to offer a learng experience that helps you close a ccial executiv note that the reflectn and ndidns required for g out mean that by the time they get to the workplace, gay men are often secure their inty and don’t feel the need to abe people orr to boost their ego. “I thk ’s really important that you give people the opportuny to have self-rpect, even if that means helpg them leave a job the way they want to, “ he this kd of empathetic management style is both gay and straight benefg employe.

“Matthew Kle says that workg for a gay boss has tght him that emotnally hont don’t equate to weak the workplace. “The only managers that succeed are on that have energy and are outgog and terted, “ says Richard Laermer, the gay CEO of a New York–based PR firm and -thor of Punk Marketg: Get Off Your Ass and Jo the Revolutn.

“If that’s a gay thg, then mazel tov, but I know the same number of straight managers who are emotnal and rg. “ And one gay vice print at a fancial firm says his learship tras e om his life history, not om anythg related to his sexual orientatn. “I feel like I spend my life explag that what I’m sayg or dog has nothg to do wh the fact that I’m gay.

GAY BAR MANAGER AWARD €20,000 AFTER BOSS LLS HIM ‘QUEER’ ALMOST EVERY DAY

“That said, if your new boss happens to be gay, chanc are you’ll be happier and more fulfilled your job. A RESTAURANT has been orred to pay €20, 000 pensatn to a gay bar manager after a director lled him ‘queer’ almost every day at work.

‘Director A’ uttered the vast majory of ments to the bar manager and WRC Adjuditn Officer Marian Duffy stated: “I nnot prehend how senr managers a workplace would nsir acceptable to ll such offensive nam or make such offensive ments to a gay man.

In evince, the bar manager stated that ‘Director A’ particular equently referred to him and other gay men as “queers”. The bar manager said beg lled “queer” is very offensive and is one of the most rogatory word directed agast a gay person. He said that sendg the WhatsApp msage wishg the bar manager happy Gay Pri and llg him a “big queer” wh lghg emojis was meant as a joke.

TWO NEW BARS THE GAYBORHOOD ARE OWNED BY PEOPLE OF LOR, MARKG A MAJOR SHIFT

He said that he had banter wh the bar manager about his sexual orientatn and that some of his bt iends are gay and lbian and he unrstands that the term “queer” is embraced by the LGBT muny.

Two bars opened recently the Gayborhood that are owned and operated by people of lor, markg a big culture shift for the LGBTQ enclave Center Cy, where racism has been documented for years. Philly drag queen Ta Montgomery has felt the unrcurrent of racism the Gayborhood for her entire reer.

The Gayborhood is further gentrifyg now — ’s often lled Midtown Village, and wel jt as many straight bachelorette parti as queer ctomers.

LEATHERHEAD FC MANAGER LE TUFFS: ‘I’M SHOWG YOUNG PEOPLE YOU N BE GAY AND A SUCCS’

“It means a lot to me to be out there bee I know ’s showg young people that you n be gay, be good at sport and still be a succs, ” he says. Tuffs’s experience serv to be amplified as football attempts to change the long-standg stigma around homosexualy wh the game.

WHAT I LEARNED WORKG A NAKED GAY BAR

A man who n’t stop crackg jok and troduc himself as a “massive gayer non-league football” says he and enurag banter the drsg room to addrs the fact of his sexualy.

(Courty Kristen Porter/Hurley Event Photography)The se of so much gay history Boston is pretty borg om the outsi, jt a squat gray buildg that stretch a whole block on Boylston near Fenway Park. But until jt before quarante — when Mache Nightclub and bar Ramrod officially closed — past the ont door and the blacked-out wdows at 1254 Boylston St., si was, the leather and Levis gay bar, moved to the first floor 1981 wh Mache rvg out a separate gay nightclub downstairs 1998.

GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL

Both spots had that kd of slightly dgy, lived- feel of a well-loved gay hangout, the cigarette smell that seemed to hang the air long after Boston banned smokg doors, the dim rners here and there for makg out. (Courty Helix Peb Photos)The gay scene Boston is still domated by whe guys, but at least for many, Mache was a hub for a more diverse crowd. "Donald SmhThere won’t be any big sendoff for the last gay bar and nightclub the historic gayborhood and ’s jt one chapter a story about people on the outskirts of a changg cy.

HOW TO BEE POPULAR AT A GAY BAR

Followg the Stonewall Rts of 1969, more gay bars opened throughout the untry and by the 1970s and 1980s, you uld h up multiple gay bars all wh a few blocks of each other Fenway. “It was one of the few gay bars where you uld see Black people gog , and Black queer people, and straight people, ” Krone says. Blame the ter for the ath of gay spac Fenway and beyond if you want, but the real reason perhaps isn’t that tidy.

Unlike New York and other plac which bounced back pretty well after the height of the AIDS crisis, gay bars wise, Boston never did, ” he says. COVID-19 and the ensug quarante have thrown the world for a loop, but there are still gay spots town, like Club Café Back Bay and Blend Dorchter, where Miranda Wrights hosts viewg parti of shows the “RuPl’s Drag Race” anchise. Most prompts for gay porn, meanwhile, explibly flt to people of ambiguoly LatX scent wh an unrcut hairstyle.

GAY USA

In the ner-suburban streets of Melbourne’s north si, there’s a lol gay bar and club lled Sircu, known for tradg all throughout the weekend, offerg nights filled wh crackg bos of drag queen baret and beer-swiggg burly is slightly ls known about this northern venue, however, is a cur event that ns on Monday and Tuday nights: at is a mens-only homosexual soiree that scrib self as “our take on the Fzroy lol pub”, wh a key element that sets apart om the rt: It’s a naked gay bar. And y, I would do this all the ncept of nudy at gay venu is no novel ia; the pursu of gay sexual liberatn, many a queer bar has seen exposed rear ends (and other parts) fly ee the tert of sexual exprsn, whether partially unclothed or even ADAM prents an alternative, however, is the herently social element of the event. What do offer is an opportuny for gay men to nverse wh one another, offerg liberatn through a unique experience – beg entirely isn’t for everyone.

I’ve laid ey on all kds of bodi – and found that no matter what society might em as “impediments”, they’re all perfectly okay, jt as they enter the gay muny is to acknowledge a culture that often prris the body betiful over a sense of belongg – yet at ADAM, patrons are met wh kdns. Through workg at a naked gay bar, I’ve e to realise that our boundari—those that nfe our propensy for warm-hearted teractn—aren’t always social. “To be gay and vaquero — there’s a lot of cricism that wh that, even om our own native untry [bee of homophobia].

GAY NEW YORK CY

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