THE BEST Queens Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023) - Tripadvisor

Contents:

• THE OLST GAY BAR QUEENS SECUR ITS FUTURE JACKSON HEIGHTS
• THE NEWT GAY BAR NYC
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• GAY BARS QUEENS: WHERE TO PARTY JACKSON HEIGHTS
• THE BEST QUEENS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS QUEENS
• THE NEWT GAY BAR NYC

THE OLST GAY BAR QUEENS SECUR ITS FUTURE JACKSON HEIGHTS

The olst gay bar Queens, Friend’s Tavern, will rema Jackson Heights at 78-11 Roosevelt Avenue, near 79th Street.

Though was not immediately clear whether Friend’s was imment danger of closg whout purchasg the se, many gay bars have feared they wouldn’t be able to survive the panmic. Friend’s Tavern (or Friend’s) Jackson Heights is known as the olst active gay bar Queens and has been owned sce 1989 by Eddie Valent and Casimiro Villa, bs partners and former personal partners. It has been a particularly important nightlife space for gay and bisexual Lato men, many of whom, as immigrants, found a sense of muny an openly gay environment that they may not have had their native untri.

Friend’s Tavern (popularly referred to as Friend’s) has been bs at this lotn sce 1989 and is nsired the olst operatg gay bar Queens. Valent, who along wh Villa also operat the nearby Club Evolutn, has lled this stretch of Roosevelt Avenue “the gay Village for Latos, ” reference to the historilly gay whe enclave of Greenwich Village Manhattan.

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Though Jackson Heights’ LGBT muny was predomantly whe datg back to the 1920s, many gay Hispanics moved as part of a large flux of Lato immigrants the 1970s and 1980s. For Latos, the nightlife spac reflected the dance-driven cultur of their native untri, but also provid an openly gay atmosphere that, for many, was not available back home. Acrdg to LGBT rights activist and journalist Andrés Duque, walkg to Friend’s soon after emigratg om Colombia 1993 and seeg Colombian men kissg and dancg together was “a revelatn of [his] life and [his] gay life.

” Others also relled the signifince of beg around people wh shared backgrounds — Lato, immigrant, and LGBT — which fostered a sense of muny, particularly for those who moved to New York whout their fai or were forced to be more closeted their homeland (though gay bars did sometim exist urban areas) or their immigrant muni here. Two days after the June 12, 2016 mass shootg at the gay nightclub Pulse, Orlando, Florida, which the majory of the victims were Hispanic (and nearly half were Puerto Rin), Valent helped anize an English- and Spanish-language vigil outsi Club Evolutn that ntued along Roosevelt Avenue to Friend’s and Te Colors, another gay Lato bar. Valent, who knew some of the victims om when they lived Jackson Heights and equented Friend’s and other area bars, spoke about the importance of gay nightlife spac as safe havens:.

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There are a lot of [LGBT] people who e om other untri, and they leave primarily bee of the fact that there’s so much prejudice and homophobia their untri. S., the first thg they do is look for a bs that’s gay, more likely a bar or a club, where they n make their first iends.

While several newer gay Lato bars operate on and around Roosevelt Avenue, former bars and clubs clu the Love Boat, at 77-02 Broadway Elmhurst; Club Llamarada (pronounced “Yamarada”), a popular dance spot at 82-20 Baxter Avenue Elmhurst; and Lucho’s Place, at 38-19 69th Street Woodsi. As wh Friend’s, the bars were also equented by non-Lato gay and bisexual men om elsewhere the cy and Long Island wh an tert the Lato bar scene. Read our transparency report to learn PNew York Cy, NY19 ntributnsJan 2018 • FriendsLove this gay bar.

Read our transparency report to learn 2017 • CouplGay iendly bar my old hometown - my how Jackson Heights has changed! Read our transparency report to learn 2016 • FayGay bar the heart of Jackson a iendly bartenr, and many Lato guys of all ag (21+ of urse) Wrten March 22, 2017This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Read our transparency report to learn 2016 • FayThis is one of the olst gay bars Queens.

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The Newt Gay Bar NYCLoted at 34-10 30th Ave, Queens, New York NY 11103New Drag Bnch Saturday & Sunday! Type: Gay Bar. In a nutshell: Friends Tavern is a Queens neighborhood gay bar, and the olst, popular wh the Lato lols wh an outdoor BBQ, hookah, bottle service, hot dancers, DJ, and a happy hour daily 4 pm - 9 pm.

Gay bars Queens tend to be outsi the gipster strongholds of Astoria and Long Island Cy (those gays are close enough to Manhattan that they're willg to mute for nightlife). Queens' gay bars are ncentrated slightly further out, the racially and culturally diverse neighborhood of Jackson Heights.

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The fact that Manhattan is kd-of a schlep om here has led not jt to longevy for a uple bars, but to a fully thrivg scene centered on Roosevelt sptg distance of one another you’ll fd Te Colors, Club Evolutn, Bum Bum Bar and Queens’ olst gay bar Friends’ Tavern.

I was young and to arts and culture and movg profsnally to the theater and g out as gay. I was terrified that somebody would fd out I was gay. I went to my first gay bar, Hatfield's, on Queens Boulevard.

I was standg on Queens Boulevard and cryg and my iend manfully wiped away my tears and then said, "Well, there's another gay bar down the street. So we went to this other gay bar lled Breadstix.

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I'm not the only gay du the neighborhood. How would I meet other gay men any other ntext?

There were some issu my fay around my g out so I moved out at the start of my sophomore year of llege. I didn't have a good sense of my own inty other than the fact that I knew that I was gay. And I would go gallivantg down Washgton Square South or down LaGuardia Place bee I thought that's what gay was, until I got a lot of that out of my system and then realized that felt really forced and performative and put on, and not a reflectn of whoever I was or whoever I wanted to bee.

I am not any way speakg ill of gay men who are, to e the term, flamboyant.