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Contents:

• POOL BOYS: THE SUMMER GAY SCENE AT THE RAVEN POOL NEW HOPE
• GAY SNA & CISE CLUB GUI
• GAY BAR ENDLS SUMMER
• THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

POOL BOYS: THE SUMMER GAY SCENE AT THE RAVEN POOL NEW HOPE

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Not as easy as looks” was cricised for kissg a male fan at a 2019 ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also has laws agast homosexual acts, media reported. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.

” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year.

GAY SNA & CISE CLUB GUI

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GAY BAR ENDLS SUMMER

“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.

In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.

” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. ” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist.

THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA

On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. “Why don’t they have more gay villas, ” Whe said, “I liked wrg Ernte.

Whe, who liv New York, was a -founr of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and of the 1980s queer wrers group The Vlet Quill. “Whether ’s evotive pictn of gay life durg the tumultuo 1980s, pastakgly rearched bgraphy or elegant memoir, Whe’s work stands out across s as s ronance … for a multu of voted rears. ) Whe has been lled the “godfather of gay Amerin lerature, ” Prceton Alumni Weekly has reported.

“I’m workg now on a sex memoir about the lov of my life, ” Whe, who 1977 -wrote wh Charl Silverste, “The Joy of Gay Sex, ” said. In that era, “the three most heo thgs Ameri were hero, munism and homosexualy, ” Whe wrote an say. “Or they would try to get passn for gays and prent as sick sad stori, ” Whe said.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

Every year, gay men fan out farther and wir for summer fun. Wele to the Pool at the you don’t know the Pool, ’s probably bee you’re not gay, boozy or particularly randy, or preferably all three.

But ’s been a summertime staple for gay men om Philly, New York, New Jersey and parts of what is monly lled “Pennsyltucky” for s — New Hope’s crown jewel when to summer gay tourism. When a gay man texts “I’m gog to the pool, ” ’s no mystery which one — ’s not his pool, or a pool, but the Pool.