The 15 Bt Gay Bars NYC to Check Out - CySignal

Contents:

• THE 15 BT GAY BARS NYC TO CHECK OUT
• THE OLST GAY BAR QUEENS SECUR ITS FUTURE JACKSON HEIGHTS
• GAY BARS QUEENS: WHERE TO PARTY JACKSON HEIGHTS
• GAY BARS AND DANCE CLUBS MAY MAKE ASTORIA THE CY’S NEXT 'GAYBORHOOD'
• A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NEW YORK CY'S GAY & QUEER BARS
• THE NEWT GAY BAR NYC
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

THE 15 BT GAY BARS NYC TO CHECK OUT

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THE OLST GAY BAR QUEENS SECUR ITS FUTURE JACKSON HEIGHTS

In New York’s gay bars, however, pri is a yearlong event—and for your nvenience, we’ve assembled a list of the bt LGBTQ bars the cy has to offer, om chic clubs to kky div to s-old queer strongholds. Gay Bars Near Me. Consistently ranked as one of NYC’s bt gay bars by New York Magaze and The Village Voice, Indtry is known for s sizeable high-ceilged dance floor and dtrial athetic.

Another historic favore, Greenwich Village’s Juli’ holds the distctn of beg the olst ntually operatg gay bar New York Cy. In 1966, a full three years before the Stonewall Rts, Juli’ was also the se of the Mattache Society’s “sip-, ” a prott agast the then-mon practice of bars refg to serve alhol to gay people, that ultimately succeed forcg the State Liquor Authory to relax s discrimatory polici. As one of only 21 lbian bars left the untry and one of three New York Cy (the other two beg Cubbyhole jt a few blocks north and Gger’s Bar Park Slope) Henrietta Hudson is fiercely mted to creatg a space that embrac members of the LGBTQ muny who are often left alienated queer spac domated by cis gay men.

In recent years, some gay bars have begun dilutg the kks and raw sexualy that prevly fed the spac an effort to make them a ltle more accsible to heterosexual bar hoppers. When the permanent versn of his avant-gar queer nightclub opened 2017, quickly beme known for s dazzlg, celebry-studd baret, drag, and standup performanc ( whose dienc Cummg himself n ocsnally be spotted) as well as for hostg events that might not be tradnally found a gay bar, such as jazz jam ssns and “drk and draw” nights wh live figure mols.

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Servg as Queens’ premiere gay bar, Astoria is known for s top-tier drag talent. Patrick Kuzara played a fun mash-up of ’90s pop classics and current club hs that kept the dance floor full, wh gay anthems by divas like Rihanna and Whney sprkled for good measure.

Type: Gay Bar. In a nutshell: The In is a gay ultra lounge the heart of Astoria, Queens, wh a food menu.

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. 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).

GAY BARS AND DANCE CLUBS MAY MAKE ASTORIA THE CY’S NEXT 'GAYBORHOOD'

Queens' gay bars are ncentrated slightly further out, the racially and culturally diverse neighborhood of Jackson Heights.

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. Astoria is poised to bee the cy's next 'gayborhood' wh the openg of three bars and dance clubs that uld turn the creasgly sirable neighborhood to a statn for the LGBT muny , which boasts a whe leather bar wh Swarovski crystals, and Static Lounge, which is holdg a 'Men of Astoria' lendar ntt, beme the newt bars on the block when they burst onto the scene opened May wh mil theatre trivia ntts and speed datg. "The mand for more gay bars has been strong for a while, " said T'ai Chu-Richardson, who belongs to the LGBT workg group Out Astoria, which boasts a whoppg 1, 260 members on s Facebook page.

"It's been a growg gay neighborhood for the past four or five years. "Sky-high Manhattan rents have priced many members of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny out of Hell's Kchen and Chelsea, he said.

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

"Her patrons have begun to hop between Elixir and the new bars — which she hop will drive more gays and lbians to the 's a self-profsed fan of the Static Lounge, which created a "Keep Calm and Stay Astoria" mpaign to keep patrons lol.

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"Astoria has bee one of the fastt risg 'gayborhoods.

'"That wasn't always Ln, the owner of In, said he tried to brg a gay club to Astoria two s ago.

(Kathy Kmonicek for Daily News)"Astoria's [now] bee the next gay mec, " he the new crop of bars ter primarily to gay men. Breakg NewsAs happensGet updat on the ronavis panmic and other news as happens wh our ee breakg news email 's tratg for many of the lol gay women. Jackson Heights, where the Queens Pri para origated, has always been the center of the borough's LGBT muny, said gay activist and Cy Councilman Daniel half a dozen gay bars and clubs operate the neighborhood at any one time — many aimed at the Hispanic muny, Dromm said.

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"Astoria is rivallg Jackson Heights for the tle of beg the gay pal of Queens, " said Dromm (D-Jackson Heights), who ed to go to drag shows the muny the early 1970s. 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.