The 11 Bt Gay Bars In NYC - Gothamist

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• THE 11 BT GAY BARS IN NYC
• BLACK GAY BAR WT VILLAGE TO CLOSE AMID DISCRIMATN CLAIMS
• LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
• NEW YORK’S OWN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE, NOW BARELY REMEMBERED

THE 11 BT GAY BARS IN NYC

This year's Pri Week kicked off wh the wele announcement that the Stonewall Inn, se of the start of the Gay Rights Movement, has been signated a cy landmark.

LOVEGUN: LoveGun is a relative newer to the cy's gay scene, havg opened Williamsburg jt last September. Still, s short time on Earth, the spot's served as a solid succsor to arly-parted gay nightclub Sugarland, shepherdg a hip clientele and boastg setls jam-packed wh top 40 hs and throwback dance tracks. PHOENIX: The Phoenix has been dolg out drks to rock 'n rollg gay men sce 1999, holdg down the ol fort the ever-atifyg East Village.

NOWHERE BAR: Another sual pool table-boastg gay bar, this East Village spot wel all those ridg on the LGBT spectm, drawg folks wh their beers, jebox and perfectly divey ambiance. But This 'N That, known primarily by the nickname TNT, has spent the last uple of years servg as the neighborhood's new gay ground zero. TNT is plenty welg of all genrs and sexual preferenc, which is good news if you're a straight lady lookg to hang wh your gay iends.

BLACK GAY BAR WT VILLAGE TO CLOSE AMID DISCRIMATN CLAIMS

This laid-back gay bar is perfect for guys or gals lookg to grab a cheap beer an thentic neighborhood dive. (Abigail Rowe)The Boiler Room is loted at 86 East 4th Street between Cooper Square and the Bowery the East Village (212-254-7536, ) EAGLE: The Eagle hasn't only ma our bt-of—NY Mag dubbed this gay hotspot the bt leather bar the cy back 2002.

LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH

STONEWALL INN: No gui to the cy's gay bar scene would be plete whout a nod to the historic Stonewall Inn.

Now an official New York Cy landmark, this Wt Village tavern lnched the pri movement on June 28th, 1969, after ntued police harassment agast the gay muny fally reached a tippg pot. It was the se of one of Greenwich Village’s most notorly homophobic crim 1980. The June 1969 rebelln by patrons of the Stonewall bar agast police harassment helped to lnch a renewed and more activist natnal gay rights movement.

By the early 1970s, the wtern end of Christopher Street and the adjacent blocks along Wt and Weehawken Streets, long tablished wh seamen-oriented wateront taverns, beme a nucls for bars terg to a gay male clientele. It was the se of one of Greenwich Village’s most notorly homophobic crim, when, on November 19, 1980, a former trans officer fired to the bar, killg two men and woundg six others. Daniel Hurewz, Steppg Out: Ne Walks Through New York Cy’s Gay and Lbian Past (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1997).

NEW YORK’S OWN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE, NOW BARELY REMEMBERED

It would figure that Williamsburg's premiere gay bar would have only a MySpace page as s webse—ah, the ironic retro ter—and this award-wng gay and lbian oriented bar is one of the most popular the borough, even moro durg the warm weather months due to s am... Midtown's "only full-time gay bar" equipped wh r om the Forti, wh a great selectn of ntemporary tun playg over the sound system. The Boiler Room is as far removed thematilly as is geographilly om the Hell's Kchen and Chelsea gay scen—what New York lovgly lls a "post-gay gay bar"—where orientatn isn't a good enough basis for nversatn and beg the most over-the-top bottom won't w yo...

That would be the Lat pronunciatn of "boom boom, " by the way, which mak sense for this South Amerin-styled gay bar Woodsi. Probably Manhattan's most clive gay club, Indtry is a b of an anomaly Midtown nightlife, that rare place you aim directly for stead of happen to end up at. Multi-level gay bar wh three differently themed rooms, om a banquette-stuffed lounge for dg and mglg, a simple but elegant bar, and a third for dancg and cisg.

Country & Wtern-styled saloon for the gay and lbian crowd Hell's Kchen. By Gabriela Rto-MonteroDNA Reporter/ProducerWEST VILLAGE — One of the only black gay bars the Village is closg s doors, wh owners blamg fancial troubl stemmg om discrimatn by the state and cy. "Anyone who lov the Wt Village and knows what Christopher Street means to the gay muny would never want this to happen, " said McKenzie of the bar's imment closure on Jan.

He nied claims his precct targeted the bar bee of s predomantly black, gay and transgenr patrons, sayg the problem was the lany of public safety issu raised by rints. 23, 2001See the article s origal ntext om December 23, 2001, Sectn 14, Page 4Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal Potato, a dgy gay bar at Christopher and Greenwich Streets, is the middle of a dispute that ps accatns of gay-inty polics agast claims of 15-year-old tavern, once at the center of New York gay life, now attracts a mostly gay black and Lato crowd. For some rints, this was another stance of liberal policians, which this district clus three gay and lbian office holrs, protectg pet at the expense of their qualy of life.

She also rattled off a list of gay bars that she had sgled out for noise and other supporters, however, say that race is the unspoken issue. ''The fact that 's mostly kids of lor mt have somethg to do wh , '' said Melissa Sklarz, chairwoman of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Commtee of Communy Board 2. It is the se of the Stonewall Uprisg, wh the send Stonewall Inn, the Gay Liberatn Monument, and the Gay Street photo-op all wh a few steps of each other.

They based their late-night operatns on the ia that allowg gay men and lbians to gather at their tablishments would also attract tourists, who would e to gawk. Life Cafeteria particular beme an entry pot to the larger gay world, attractg young people who didn’t know of anywhere else to go, and brgg them to the gay muny. By the 1920s, Pl and Joe’s had tablished self as a major ‘gay’ stutn of the Village, but moved up to 19th Street to avoid a crackdown 1924.