THE BEST Jackson Heights Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

Contents:

• GAY BARS QUEENS: WHERE TO PARTY JACKSON HEIGHTS
• THE BEST JACKSON HEIGHTS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSON HEIGHTS
• THE BEST JACKSON HEIGHTS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSON HEIGHTS
• THE BEST JACKSON HEIGHTS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSON HEIGHTS
• GAY CLEVELAND

GAY BARS QUEENS: WHERE TO PARTY JACKSON HEIGHTS

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. 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.

Club Evolutn’s owner has been Lorenzana’s uncle (gay, not blogil) for twenty years.

Acrdg to cy uncilmember Daniel Dromm, who reprents Jackson Heights and nearby Elmhurst, the first Queens Pri ftival began a now-funct gay bar on Roosevelt and 81st Street lled Bachelor’s. In 1992, wh the neighborhood still reelg om the murr two years earlier of Jul Rivera, killed by three gay-bashers a popular cisg area, Dromm and other anizers, wh the owner’s permissn, brought a ffee n rated homema wrappg paper and llected $54 om dnk patrons.

THE BEST JACKSON HEIGHTS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSON HEIGHTS

“I uld be Lato and be openly gay. Their clost alli were the Gaylords, whose members clud some olr brothers of the Barons. Gaylords: om Woodsi.

Some other club nam I rell that were not mentned were the Barons (Jr HS 145) Jackson Heights and the Gaylords om Woodsi (unls they were part of the Gaylords that existed elsewhere). Two brothers (Frank and Arky) om the then funct Gaylords were regulars who me to the club.

THE BEST JACKSON HEIGHTS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSON HEIGHTS

They also htled gays for money and later years were hangg around the gay bars Manhattens Wtsi I found this out when one of the guys om Jackson Heights who was sellg 'downer's' begged me to drive him to 'the cy'where he had a sale to make.

THE BEST JACKSON HEIGHTS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSON HEIGHTS

I wound up a gay bar on 72nd street while my iend unload bottl of pills. Clearly gay and talkg wh a lisp.

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Nightlife /Club EvolutnNightlifeJackson Heightsstar_borrsharhareClub Evolutnplace76-19 Roosevelt Ave., Queens, NY, 11372View Websell_maDcriptnThere’s no room for wallflowers at this gay Lat mega-club.

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Jackson Heights, where the Queens Pri Para tak place annually, has had a gay prence sce was veloped the 1920s.

What many outsirs don’t know, though, is that this muny has one of the largt—and most racially diverse—“gayborhoods” the U. Queer people of lor—primarily Latx and South Asian people—were drawn to the area’s gay scene.

Head wt to make a stop at Te Colors (y, named after Cyndi Lper’s gay anthem) for karaoke, and later on, clubbg. ) A few blocks down is Club Evolutn, the epicenter of gay clubs Jackson Heights, wh several levels and ltle sectns where you won't be able to rry a nversatn—so jt dance.

By 10 pm, people start packg the gay clubs that proliferate on Roosevelt Avenue, the btlg heart of the neighborhood.