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- ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE FAC OVER A OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS
- NYC HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIALS ARE 'CLOSELY MONORG' ALLEGATNS AGAST THE OWNER OF A GAY BAR
- OWNER OF HIP GAY NIGHTCLUB ‘MOTEL 23’ DENI SEXUAL MISNDUCT ACCATNS
- GAY USA
ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE FAC OVER A OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS
Michael J. Cohen, who owns Motel 23 and has hosted some of Manhattan’s most exclive gay parti, enticed young men wh accs to nightclubs and queer muny, they say. * motel 23 gay bar *
This clud five who said that when they were their late teens or early 20s and yearng for a sense of gay muny, Cohen grabbed their genals or buttocks at parti he hosted or at Motel 23.
NYC HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIALS ARE 'CLOSELY MONORG' ALLEGATNS AGAST THE OWNER OF A GAY BAR
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Six of the ne accers said that bee they were newly out of the closet and didn’t know many queer people when the enunters occurred, they prumed that the cints were normal wh the gay muny, even though they were upset by them at the of Cohen’s accers add that havg accs to New York’s gay bars and parti meant so much to them, pecially for those who were unr 21, that they were willg to put up wh Cohen’s advanc.
OWNER OF HIP GAY NIGHTCLUB ‘MOTEL 23’ DENI SEXUAL MISNDUCT ACCATNS
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The five men who said Cohen groped them said that while they were dismayed and tried to manver away om him, they did not tell him to stop, bee they didn’t want to lose their nnectn to gay nightlife.
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It wasn’t jt about experiencg fun nights out wh their iends — was about the sense of eedom and acceptance they felt when surround by other gay people, some s for the first time their liv, they said.