Splash, New York Cy Gay Club | Rabow Inx

Contents:

• GAY PRI AT SPLASH
• LONGTIME GAY DANCE CLUB SPLASH TO CLOSE WH 10 DAYS OF PARTI
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY

GAY PRI AT SPLASH

I went to a few gay bars, and by far this was the bt place to dance and the mic was the bt here, varied, and not too much dance mic like you got your head bangg a fish bowl! If you have gay iends like me, brg them there, you will have the bt night out! It was a Ain Amerin walkg around and actg like he was gay and dnk.

Dziekan III/Getty ImagJuly 31, 2013Last week, Splash, a sprawlg two-floor gay club on Wt 17th Street Chelsea, announced that was closg on Aug.

Oodl of gay ins — cludg Madonna, Brney Spears, Kylie Mogue, Katy Perry and both Pattis (LaBelle and LuPone) — had patronized the club or performed on s notorly ty stage. But s ntributn to gay culture was more mocratic. Opened 1991, jt as gay men were lonizg Chelsea, Splash pneered a new kd of gay bar: was big, sleek and shy.

LONGTIME GAY DANCE CLUB SPLASH TO CLOSE WH 10 DAYS OF PARTI

The format would be seen at gay bars worldwi, cludg the Raidd Bar Paris, the Saloon Mneapolis and the Glam club on Mykonos. In recent years, however, Splash had trouble drawg a crowd as the cy’s gay scene migrated to Hell’s Kchen and the East Village. LANDECHE I wanted to open a place for gay men to go out any night of the week.

Gay men were ill om H. One day, Harry and I were talkg about how beg gay shouldn’t equate wh beg unhealthy, how you n go to the gym and be clean. Dziekan III/Getty ImagMATTHEW BANK, CO-FOUNDER, HX MAGAZINE (1991 TO 2009) Splash took the gay bar om the speakeasy feel, where you might thk a mobster’s girliend ran , to a place that was big bs and was a muny fixture.

After that, people vted big gay bars around the world. They were like the Msky’s Burlque of the gay-bar world, the apex of where you uld perform.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

For many years, was synonymo wh the New York gay scene. MICHAEL MUSTO, NIGHT-LIFE CHRONICLER Splash opened before the play “Angels Ameri” and the movie “Priscilla, Queen of the Dert” and the TV show “Will & Grace, ” all the thgs that eventually ma gay culture more mastream. It also opened right before Chelsea beme the new gay hot spot after the Village.

And I will say this about Brian: He’s the only gay-bar or club owner I know who vted wisely and is set for life. But as gay life has migrated to the East Village and Hell’s Kchen neighborhoods, Splash beme know more for tourists than lols, cuttg to the crowds who once flocked to strip shows, happy hours and vibrant social scene.

“Maybe there is ls of a need to have bars dited to jt gay men, ” Lanche told Queerty. “We ed to offer a refuge for gay men lookg for other gay men and now gay men n fd that other plac.

THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY

It was my hope Splash would be a nice, clean, and safe place where you uld go every day of the week to strike up a nversatn wh another gay guy and have a drk or a dance and fall love.