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• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• HARLEM’S BLACK, GAY BARS ARE THRIVG THE MIDDLE OF A PANMIC
• GAY NEW YORK CY
• THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
• NEW YORK CY GAY SNAS AND BATHHO
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NEW YORK CY'S GAY & QUEER BARS

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

“What I love about Black people, there’s a rilience , and if you’re Black and gay, ’s even stronger, ” he explaed. At plac like Alibi, they n feel at down the street om Alibi — a quick, five-mute walk so close that hoppg a r would feel like a waste of gas — is Lambda Lounge, the neighborhood’s only other Black-owned gay bar.

HARLEM’S BLACK, GAY BARS ARE THRIVG THE MIDDLE OF A PANMIC

“I really wanted the Black muny to have good optns, to not only have to go to Chelsea for a gay bar.

We have a lol gay bar! ”Though the gradual shift om summer’s warmth to wter’s chill has put an end to that specific sense of outdoor mararie, Alibi and Lambda still offer a wele change of pace om the gay bars of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Not only are Mko, Hugh, and Solomon an spiratn for lnchg succsful bs as out and proud Black gay men, but what they’ve created — a safe space for queer people a neighborhood not typilly known for embracg s LGBTQ+ populatn — has life-changg agre.

I jt knew that if Alibi had closed down, was gog to be the same script, the same story: Oh, another gay, Black bs nnot survive. "While we’ll never know whether Lambda would have opened if Alibi had shut down, we do know that havg two gay, Black-owned bs is always better than one.

GAY NEW YORK CY

“I feel honored to be a part of our queer history, ” Hugh said when asked about this new gayborhood.

New York Cy has a huge gay scene, and ’s arguably the most culturally signifint the world. After all, was at NYC’s Stonewall Inn where an outbreak of ristance agast opprsive police accelerated the gay rights movement to a cril pot. The days, most of the gay bars and clubs are centered around Hell's Kchen but you'll also fd gay scen Chelsea, Greenwich Village, and Brooklyn.

THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC

At Lambda Lounge that night, bis Le & Leroy the crowd also trad stori about Chi Chiz — a Black-owned gay bar the Wt Village forced to close down 2010 amid claims of racially-motivated policg. “We need more betiful, Black, married gay upl owng the plac, ” party promoter Malawtic Surreal said at Lambda Lounge last week. The greek letter lambda was an early symbol of gay civil rights, pre-rabow flag.

Acrdg to Q Salt Lake Magaze, was origally chosen by the Gay Activists Alliance of New York Cy 1970 to reprent s missn, and by 1974 the Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs officially clared the ternatnal symbol for gay and lbian rights. As much as bankg and lendg is about numbers, nversatns and relatnships still matter: Garibell advot for clients, provis rourc to bs owners through outreach to groups like the Natnal Gay and Lbian Chamber of Commerce, and works wh loan unrwrers to help his lleagu unrstand a client and the story of their bs.

In se you thought every penntly-owned gay bar had shut s doors due to Covid, meet the persistent and visnary married uple behd Lambda Lounge — Harlem’s only Ain Amerin owned LGBTQ lounge. Charl Hugh and Richard Solomon are swched on and self-created Black entreprenrs who are more than well aware of the importance of LGBTQ-owned nightlife spac, LGBTQ spac that wele people of lor, and Black-owned LGBTQ all, they me to each other's orb at Chi Chi's — a Wt Village gay bar on historic Christoper Street that was welg of Black men a way which wasn't and still isn't mon the Village and many of our "gay goln . @lemonbrandsGay spac are important for both Hugh and Solomon.

NEW YORK CY GAY SNAS AND BATHHO

Hugh and Solomon wanted to reach back further and they disvered the history of the Lambda symbol durg the immediate post-Stonewall era to signify gay liberatn. It's a gay Cheers.

But both agreed that a nightclub held a certa attractn for gay men as a "home away om home. The bar had prevly been 95% gay male but they've seen an crease lbians, trans folks, and even some straight women. Flamg Saddl is the perfect mix of great drks, Amerina, gay culture and cute bar high energy gay bar rais the roof wh their bar top dancg bartenrs.

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

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! There are plenty of gay bars up and down 9th ave and there's no reason to spend money at a place that will treat you like total trash, threaten you, and be unnecsarily belligerent and make you feel unsafe jt bee they're on some kd of power trip. S., if not the world, for gay — and more clively, queer — nightlife.

Whether you're celebratg NYC Pri late June, planng a future trip to the Big Apple, or a lol lookg for a new bar to check out, here is a prehensive list of nearly every gay and queer bar NYC. The Bt Gay and Queer Bars Manhattan:. Alibi Lounge, Harlem: One of the cy's only gay, Black-owned LGBTQIA+ bars, this morn bar serv up a variety of specialty cktails, we, beer, and bar snacks.

A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NEW YORK CY'S GAY & QUEER BARS

The Cock, East Village: This gay-men-only bar is the most cise-y of all the gay bars the cy.