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class="type-feprt">Gothamist is fund by sponsors and member donatns</p></div></div></div><div class="grid gutter-x-30"><div class="l-fixed hidn xxl:block"></div><div class="l overflow-hidn article-lumn"><div class="streamfield article-body"><!--[--><!--[--><div class="streamfield-paragraph rte-text"><p>New Jersey native Nikke Alleyne crossed a personal thrhold one night 2008, when she and a group of iends entered the doors of La Escuela, a popular LGBTQ+ Lat club Manhattan.</p><p>The experience would change her life – and spire her to open an LGBTQ+ bar of her own.</p><p>“I felt tgly si,” said Alleyne, now the -owner of The Bh, a new lbian bar that opened Brooklyn late April. “I felt so safe and so seen.”</p></div><!--]--><!--[--><div class="streamfield-embed streamfield-embed-fualt streamfield-paragraph mb-7"><iame ameborr="0" scrollg="no" height="130" width="100%" src="></iame></div><!--]--><!--[--><div class="streamfield-paragraph rte-text"><p>La Escuela closed 2016, after endurg 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That cint was part of a broar cle LGBTQ+ bars across the U.S., down 45% om 2002 to 2023, acrdg to a report by Greggor Mattson, profsor and chair of soclogy at Oberl College and Conservatory.</p><p>But New Yorkers are rilient, pecially when to nightlife. Even after the COVID-19 panmic, New York Cy had at least 48 LGBTQ+ bars. That’s up om 36 2019, acrdg to Mattson.</p><p>He says 's unual for a cy to have mataed s LGBTQ+ bars, never md seeg an crease. The panmic hurt LGBTQ+ bars across the untry, but the venu had been cle for years. Mattson says many people have blamed datg apps, where people n nnect onle, often for ee, stead of meetg person and spendg money on drks. Others say the mastream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people has ma queer spac obsolete.</p></div><!--]--><!--[--><figure class="image-wh-ptn mb-7"><div class="image-wh-ptn-wrapper"><div class="image-wh-ptn-image"><div class="flexible-lk null image-wh-ptn-image-lk disabled image-wh-ptn-image-lk disabled" aria-hidn="false" tabx="0" style="--31356108:none;"><!--[--><!--]--></div><!----></div><!----></div><figptn class="mt-1"><!----><p class="image-wh-ptn-scriptn">Two iends meet for drks at The Bh Bhwick</p><div class="flexible-lk null image-wh-ptn-cred-lk image-wh-ptn-cred-lk" rel="noopener" style="--31356108:none;"><!--[-->Laila Annmarie Stevens for Gothamist<!--]--></div></figptn></figure><!--]--><!--[--><div class="streamfield-paragraph rte-text"><p>The closure of Mattson’s favore gay bar Cleveland 2013 prompted him to vis more than 250 LGBTQ+ venu natnwi search of answers to the qutn posed by the tle of his new book: “Who Needs Gay Bars?”</p><p>Mattson and his rearchers studied historil data om bar listgs the Damron Gui – a natnal travel gui of LGBTQ+ plac published om 1964 until 2017 – and pared wh morn, onle listgs.</p><p>He found out that more than half of the untry’s LGBTQ+ bars closed between 2002 and 2021. And bars terg to lbians and people of lor, and those centerg on certa kks, have closed at a faster rate than bars for gay men.</p></div><!--]--><!--[--><div class="streamfield-paragraph rte-text"><p>As of early 2021, only three wily known lbian bars were open New York Cy: Henrietta Hudson, Cubbyhole and Gger's Bar. Natnwi, the cle has been more stark: Only 27 are still bs, down om at least 206 1987, acrdg to <a href=" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Lbian Bar Project</a>, a mpaign created to prerve the untry’s remag spac.</p><p>Alleyne found The Bh wh bs partner Jte LaVlette April. Beg the -owner of the venue is important to her, Alleyne said, bee historilly, “Black dyk” have not owned the lbian bars New York Cy.</p><p>“I thk jt havg that ownership stake helps the muny, and feelg like, OK, we n be a part of this, we n be a part of history,” she said.</p><p>For Alleyne and many others, LGBTQ+ bars have provid venu where they n be themselv whout stigma or fear while swayg to the mic the background. The same was te for Cubbyhole's owner Lisa Menicho, who equented the club as a patron and then started workg at the bar.</p></div><!--]--><!--[--><figure class="image-wh-ptn mb-7"><div class="image-wh-ptn-wrapper"><div class="image-wh-ptn-image"><div class="flexible-lk null image-wh-ptn-image-lk disabled image-wh-ptn-image-lk disabled" aria-hidn="false" tabx="0" style="--31356108:none;"><!--[--><!--]--></div><!----></div><!----></div><figptn class="mt-1"><!----><p class="image-wh-ptn-scriptn">Jenille Nikke Alleyne (left) and Jte LaVlette (right), owners of The Bh</p><div class="flexible-lk null image-wh-ptn-cred-lk image-wh-ptn-cred-lk" rel="noopener" style="--31356108:none;"><!--[-->Laila Annmarie Stevens for Gothamist<!--]--></div></figptn></figure><!--]--><!--[--><div class="streamfield-paragraph rte-text"><p>“I jt fell love wh the place, and I never left,” she said.</p><p>When Mencho me out the 1990s, there were at least ne documented lbian bars New York Cy.</p><p>When rtrictns imposed rponse to the COVID-19 panmic forced Cubbyhole to close March 2020, Mencho said she me to realize how important the bar was to the LGBTQ+ muny.</p><p>“I was jt wallowg self py, shufflg around my pajamas, drkg bourbon,” she said. “I would e and check on the bar once a week, and I would fd all the ltle not the secury gat: ‘What n we do to help?’ ‘Anythg you need? I know lawyers.’”</p><p>Msag also arrived through the bar’s social media acunts.</p><p>“They were like, ‘Cubbyhole is where I met my partner’... ‘Cubbyhole’s where I had my first kiss’... ‘It's where they me out’... ‘It's where my partner and I went before she passed away,’” Mencho said. “It got me out of my funk.”</p><p>Bolstered by muny support and a <a href=" rel="noopener" target="_blank">crowdfundg mpaign</a>, Cubbyhole was able to raise nearly $80,000 – and now remas open to celebrate another Pri Month.</p></div><!--]--><!--[--><div class="streamfield-paragraph rte-text"><p>Mattson propos that one reason New York Cy was spared om the wir cle LGBTQ+ bars was bee of the area’s ncentratn of wealthy rints.</p><p>“New York Cy bars were some of the most succsful at crowdfundg durg panmic,” he said. “So, even as New York Cy bars are prsed by gentrifitn, some of those same forc also allowed them to tap more fancial rourc to survive the panmic.”</p><p>Mattson also c tourism, and he’s not alone. Jack Jen Giekg, who’s wrg a book about the history of lbian bars, attribut New York Cy’s stat as an LGBTQ+ mec to the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village bar that was the se of an uprisg by patrons agast police harassment. The event triggered the start of the gay liberatn movement.</p><p>For the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg 2009, New York Cy officials promoted the cy as an LGBTQ+ tourist statn. They created a marketg mpaign unr the slogan <a href=" rel="noopener" target="_blank">“Rabow Pilgrimage”</a> so people uld pay homage to the cy’s var LGBTQ+ s.</p><p>“There's this ia, regardls of what age or history or natnaly or genr or sexualy, that you're a part of this,” said Giekg. “If you hear any LGBTQ history, whatever untry you e om, you hear about Stonewall.”</p><p>Juli’, a two-mute walk away om Stonewall, is one of the olst ntuoly n gay bars New York Cy. In 1966, three years before the Stonewall uprisg, three young men 1966 went to have a drk at Juli’ and changed history.</p></div><!--]--><!--[--><figure class="image-wh-ptn mb-7"><div class="image-wh-ptn-wrapper"><div class="image-wh-ptn-image"><div class="flexible-lk null image-wh-ptn-image-lk disabled image-wh-ptn-image-lk disabled" aria-hidn="false" tabx="0" style="--31356108:none;"><!--[--><!--]--></div><!----></div><!----></div><figptn class="mt-1"><!----><p class="image-wh-ptn-scriptn">Juli’, a two-mute walk away om Stonewall, is one of the olst ntuoly n gay bars New York Cy.</p><div class="flexible-lk null image-wh-ptn-cred-lk image-wh-ptn-cred-lk" rel="noopener" style="--31356108:none;"><!--[-->Cy of New York Landmarks Prervatn Commissn<!--]--></div></figptn></figure><!--]--><!--[--><div class="streamfield-paragraph rte-text"><p>The men were members of the untry’s earlit gay rights group, the Mattache Society. They challenged the New York State Liquor Authory's policy that a bar uld have s liquor license revoked if staff knowgly served “homosexuals.” Their act of civil disobedience paved the way for the legalizatn of openly LGBTQ+ bars New York state.</p><p>“As time progrs and thgs change, 's gonna get easier for the next generatn,” said Helen Buford, owner of Juli’. “But you also have to learn that history. I thk that part is important.”</p><p>Now, tourism acunts for lns of visors om around the world, many of whom pour money to the cy’s LGBTQ+ bars. Giekg says rints and tourists alike want to vis plac like Stonewall and Juli’ bee they want to be a part of that history – to “experience what means to be gay,” he said.</p><p>“Where would you fd other gay people? You go to a gay bar, you go to a gay neighborhood,” he said. 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