North Jersey Out and About: A Gay Men's Social Club | Meetup

Contents:

• THE BEST NEW JERSEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW JERSEY
•  NEW JERSEY LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• GAY NIGHTLIFE ATLANTIC CY
• GAY AND LGBT CLUBS ATLANTIC CY
• NORTH JERSEY OUT AND ABOUT: A GAY MEN'S SOCIAL CLUB
•  NEW JERSEY LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• $45,000 DONATNS POUR TO SAVE NEW JERSEY'S OLST GAY BAR, BUT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• THE BEST ASBURY PARK GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS ASBURY PARK

THE BEST NEW JERSEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW JERSEY

Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728). — Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective. Are you on the lookout for the most popp’ Gay and LGBT Clubs Atlantic Cy?

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On this page, you’ll fd the official shortlist of the bt Gay and LGBT Clubs Atlantic Cy. When to gay clubs Atlantic Cy, the name on everyone’s lips is Rabow Room. Jeans and T-shirt, Mixed Crowd, Mt be 21 years or olr, Smokg Pat, Gay Friendly, Live DJ, Jebox, Live Mic, Dance Floor, Bar, Lounge, Pool Table.

Jeans and T-shirt, Mostly Men, Mixed Crowd, Mt be 21 years or olr, Olr, More mature, Young/Collegiate, Bears, Straight Friendly, Lbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgenr, Transgenr Friendly, Gay/Straight, Live DJ, Jebox, Drag Shows, Dance Floor, Bar, Lounge, Neighborhood Bar, Sometim Cover Charge, Non-Smokg, Go-Go Dancers, Vios Shown, Pool Table, LGBT Owned/Operated, Handip Accsible. North Jersey Out and About is a social club for men the gay, bisexual and queer muny. RIVER EDGE — A fundraiser aimg to keep Club Feathers, the state’s olst gay nightclub, om shuttg s doors has reached $45, 000, but the club isn’t out of the woods que yet.

"Rizzo, who has DJed many gay nightclubs across the untry and abroad, said there aren’t many plac like Club Feathers left around the untry, let alone New Jersey or the tri-state area. "Betti said he’s heard of six gay nightclubs this week alone New York that will be closg their doors permanently and he’s hopg that Club Feathers won’t jo their ranks. "We’ve had a lot of people exprs that they would be heartbroken and would be vastg for the gay muny if we were to close, " said Betti.

GAY NIGHTLIFE ATLANTIC CY

Take a gamble on gay Atlantic Cy, New Jersey's premiere statn for sos, entertament, and nightlife.

Ri the Ferris wheel, play the many gam, and take a dive to the sea durg gay Atlantic Cy's summer season. Kney Club, where "exotic dancer" Ree LaRue performed such shows as Gay Paree.

Newark not beg a noted gay center.

GAY AND LGBT CLUBS ATLANTIC CY

Four Leaf Deli and Bar: wr Archbishop Carl Bean, Prelate-Uny Fellowship Church Movement and sger of the 1977 dis h "I Was Born This Way": "My history Newark as an Alex Bradford Sger and openly gay man is: Alex hung out neighborhood bars and therefore so did we. There was a very fortable mixg of gay and straight Jersey folk. As I remember there was a few rather small Black Gay Bars pre-dis but I don't rell their nam.

Jackson's Lounge on Howard Street: "may be the largt gatherg place for lbians and homosexuals any cy of Newark's size … Every time s doors opened, mic and lghter spilled out, " wr journalist Ron Porambo 1971, who go on, homophobic language: "A bulldagger… and a fag began yellg at one another ont of the bar. They began fightg faggot-style, nng up and down the siwalk and around the parked rs … while the crowd of lbians and homosexuals blond wigs shouted enuragement to the fighters. Waldorf Cafeteria: downtown hub for whe gays early 60s, seen Dan Rso's memoir Downtown, which se Newark as a "thrivg, smopolan cy, " wh nstant police harassment--"a band of SS officers.

NORTH JERSEY OUT AND ABOUT: A GAY MEN'S SOCIAL CLUB

Murphy's Tavern at 135 Mulberry Street joed wh bars New Bnswick and Atlantic Cy to challenge antigay discrimatory policy toward bars. 1967: New Jersey State Supreme Court livered a sweepg victory for the gay bars, unanimoly lg that "well-behaved homosexuals nnot be forbidn to patronize taverns. "[viii] "Only gay bar Newark, " says John Francis Hunter 1972.

It was one of the first gay taverns.

Darryl Rochter graduat Weequahic High 1971; se Al Murphy as an "spirg example of how to be gay and ee.

 NEW JERSEY LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

" Al shows Darryl around the gay clubs NYC. Patterson was lovers wh mol Marv Davis, and lived at 19 Lyons Ave Newark, an area Weequanic known as "homo heights. 5th Street, Newark: ad Hold Hands (Gay Activist Alliance of New Jersey newsletter), March 1975, claims "gayt gay bar" NJ; two floors of "live dis mic by Ronnie"; light show; waterbed.

$45,000 DONATNS POUR TO SAVE NEW JERSEY'S OLST GAY BAR, BUT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH

[xix] "…Al didn't vent the ecstatic, all-out, all-night party approach, the u-bar and non-alholic format, the ncept of the club as sanctuary, or the visn of the club as a theatril environment for the exprsn of ee black subjectivy – all of that n be traced back to the early-70s private gay clubs, but he was part of that origal crowd, and was his geni to image and execute the club as a hoe of style, ed, as a sanctified hoe party, which is what he pulled off at Le Joc. … It was a hip, black, gay style. [xxviii] It was mixed, men and women, gay and straight.

M., would bee all gay. "Inially was 99 percent black and 70 percent gay, although eventually went 50 percent gay.

Then after a year we started a gay night on Wednday wh Al Murphy beg the promoter. We talked about startg a Wednday gay night and the openg jock for the night was Larry Levan. [l] It's "predomantly straight, " but 's where gay and straight are partyg together.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

177 Club (at Clton Avenue and High Street) scribed as a venue "which ters to homosexuals" at 1975 murr trial of eighteen year old LaMar Watson, who stabbed Seton Hall Universy law profsor William Aldridge Jr. His home, after "31-year-old bachelor" Aldridge "had refed to pay him for performg homosexual acts wh him.

Nathaniel Hopks, owner of 177 Club, nfirmed police scriptn as "a bar equented by homosexuals. " Aldridge was a regular, while Watson a "htler, " who "sometim preyed on homosexuals. Small, so was SRO, dance floor was packed and was about ser dancg to popular club mic of the time…Lol mostly Newark/Essex crowd, mostly though not exclively Black, and surprisgly, about half men/half woman, most gay.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

Cact Club, 170 Flemg Ave, Ironbound: opened by Dan Rso 1983, "a go-go bar for gays to see hot young male bodi dancg. Venice Brown rells that Omar Legacy ran parti every Friday, and "we partied, hard, every weekend, jt a bunch of lbians and gay men.

THE BEST ASBURY PARK GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS ASBURY PARK

The Armory: Perris Strghter not: "The Armory which was at Ssex Ave and Newark Street and was a gay-owned bar (the only one Newark for a while after Murphy's closed) and the Armory closed 2010 or 11.