Why Beg “Gay the ’70s New York and L.A. Was Magic” (Gut Column) – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
• WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
• HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
• PNEERG PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY LIFE THE 1960S
• COMG OUT OF THE CLOSET AS A GAY MAN THE BRONX
• CHRIS COOPER – GAY ONLE LIFE COACH AND CAREER COACH
• 'THEY BEAT YOU WH THEIR BATON': A VETERAN OF THE STONEWALL RTS AND THE FIRST PRI MARCH SHAR WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE FOR GAY AMERINS BEFORE THE UPRISG

THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS

27 plac sorted by traveler favorBars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)What travelers are saygDgn1010Dungannon, UK392 ntributnsSo ol to be drkg such a historil bar. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.Flamg Saddl is the perfect mix of great drks, Amerina, gay culture and cute bar staff.This high energy gay bar rais the roof wh their bar top dancg bartenrs. I went to a few gay bars, and by far this was the bt place to dance and the mic was the bt here, varied, and not too much dance mic like you got your head bangg a fish bowl!Super efficient, iendly bar staff, wh buy one get one ee drks before 10pm if I remember rrectly.

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There are plenty of gay bars up and down 9th ave and there's no reason to spend money at a place that will treat you like total trash, threaten you, and be unnecsarily belligerent and make you feel unsafe jt bee they're on some kd of power trip.Wrten January 9, 2023This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Hell’s Kchen and Chelsea offer the most “tradnal” gay bars and clubs, where visors n check out venu wh hunky shirtls bartenrs, a mostly-gay-male clientele, and thumpg hs gog late to the night. Highlights of the neighborhoods clu Indtry, which many claim is New York’s bt gay bar.

WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)

It’s a fun and totally ridiculo experience that’s like a gay Coyote Ugly llid wh a down-home honky-tonk, but the fact that Flamg Saddl don’t take self serly is exactly why ’s such a fun bar to go to, offerg an unpretent experience that’s pecially good for anyone visg a gay bar for the first time.

Stonewall has played a central part NYC's gay muny for over 50 years © Getty Imag.

HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI

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One of the most important facilators of muny for LGBTIQ+ New Yorkers is The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center, referred to by lols simply as “The Center”.

PNEERG PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY LIFE THE 1960S

“Cisg” Central Park is also very real, and if you're g om somewhere that don't have much of a gay muny, thgs like this might e as a b of a culture shock. In January 2016, the Commissn and The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Communy Center lnched a shared effort to te New Yorkers about the history and rights of the transgenr muny. The most wonrful thg about those days was that the gay folks power lent a hand to young gay people tryg to get a foothold the bs.

There was a powerful work of olr succsful gay men like theatril agent Milton Goldman and entertament attorney Arnold Weissberger who troduced younger gay men to succsful showbiz typ at their betiful apartment on Sutton Place overlookg the East River. They were a long-“married” uple a good half-century before there was gay marriage!

COMG OUT OF THE CLOSET AS A GAY MAN THE BRONX

One night at Juli’, the famo Wt Village gay bar, I met a man and took him home wh me. Every gay bar had a ltle dance floor. If he shone three tim, they lled the NYPD, who had a al wh the Mafia owners of the gay bars to arrt a quota of “faggots” each week.

The bar epted a gigantic brawl … the begng of the Gay Revolutn.

Gays were leadg the edge of the culture om 1969 to about 1983, when AIDS stopped all.

CHRIS COOPER – GAY ONLE LIFE COACH AND CAREER COACH

To be gay the ’70s New York and L. There was rampant homophobia by stud and work executiv and by some olr agents, notorly at CAA (though not Ron Meyer nor the Young Turks, several of whom were known to be gay).

Stan Kamen, then the most important agent at William Morris, was out and gay but very private. ” The homophobia, though, was pervasive.

'THEY BEAT YOU WH THEIR BATON': A VETERAN OF THE STONEWALL RTS AND THE FIRST PRI MARCH SHAR WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE FOR GAY AMERINS BEFORE THE UPRISG

There emerged a whole layer of gay work executiv, wrers, stud executiv and agents, cludg Warner Bros.