Therapy, One of New York’s Most Popular Gay Bars, Was a Home for Queer Excellence | Them

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• THERAPY, ONE OF NEW YORK’S MOST POPULAR GAY BARS, WAS A HOME FOR QUEER EXCELLENCE
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• THERAPY, GAY BAR FAVORED BY 'DRAG RACE' CONTTANTS, TO CLOSE
• TRAILBLAZG HELL’S KCHEN GAY BAR THERAPY IS IN DANGER OF CLOSG PERMANENTLY
• POP-UP GAY BAR
• MOSW GAY BARS

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While clubs like Barrage, Posh, and Nth Avenue Saloon had already enjoyed some succs the Broadway-adjacent midtown district, the hub of gay life Manhattan was centered Chelsea, so much so that the phrase “Chelsea boy” beme pejorative slang for a “bronzed, buffed, waxed gay ial, ” as the New York Tim would ment jt two years after the bar’s Nevs, who then served as Therapy’s entertament director, relled givg a tour to a sce-shuttered gay magaze shortly after s public but, and the skepticism was palpable.

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