Gay History: Rememberg NYC's "Ice Palace 57" Gay Dis (1977 - 1985)

Contents:

• THE 5 BEST LAS VEGAS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LAS VEGAS
• MICHAEL F, WHOSE GAY CLUBS WERE TRENDSETTERS, DI AT 84
• GAY HISTORY: REMEMBERG NYC’S “ICE PALACE 57” GAY DIS (1977 – 1985)
• THE 5 BEST PLAYA L INGL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PLAYA L INGL

THE 5 BEST LAS VEGAS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LAS VEGAS

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MICHAEL F, WHOSE GAY CLUBS WERE TRENDSETTERS, DI AT 84

Introductn617 Brooks Street was the lotn of the Grand Palace, Charlton’s biggt gay bar the 1960s and 1970s. Origally a grocery owned by the Summers fay, Lee Summers opened a gay bar here 1974 and expand to the Grand Palace the late 1970s. Lee Summers opened The Greek Downtown Lounge, one of the first two gay bars Charlton.

The Grand Palace was Charlton’s biggt gay bar, on by nights there might be 800 people there. In 1986 Summers approached Hershel Layne about purchasg the Grand Palace sce Hershel owned other gay bars the cy, and Hershel purchased the buildg for $200, 000.

Unfortunately, the 1980s and 1990s a new type of crowd attend the bar as the stigma of attendg a gay bar lsened, and the tablishment was plagued by dg raids and other issu. “Gay Wt Virgia: Communy Formatn and the Fg of a Gay Appalachian Inty, 1963-1979. HeyMrJason PhotographyApril 26, 2019Michael F, whose trendsettg clubs on Fire Island and later Manhattan gave gay men a place to gather, dance and explore sexually at a time when homosexualy was largely unwele mastream society, died on April 11 Palm Sprgs, Calif.

GAY HISTORY: REMEMBERG NYC’S “ICE PALACE 57” GAY DIS (1977 – 1985)

F on Sea Tea, a gay party cise around Manhattan that he began anizg the 1990s, nfirmed the F gave a jolt of energy to the gay scene 1970, when he opened the Ice Palace Cherry Grove, a gay muny on Fire Island. He had recently vised the Sanctuary, a disthèque on Wt 43rd Street Manhattan wh a largely gay male clientele.

“It was always so damn hot there that I thought a nice, ol name would be psychologilly appreciated, ” he Tony PowellCertaly gay men appreciated havg such a place to go. Collectn of Michael FAbout the time Flamgo closed 1981, the gay club scene was begng to be dispted by AIDS. The Ice Palace opened a year after the Stonewall uprisg, a turng pot the gay-rights movement which protters rebelled agast a police raid at a gay bar Greenwich Village.

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“Michael was an entreprenr who nnily noticed a big new gay male market the 1970s and fulfilled brilliantly, ” Felice Pino, a wrer and publisher who has foced on gay culture, said by email. ”Gee Stambolian, an important figure the gay lerary movement, logized the club when closed, sayg that gog to Flamgo was about more than a good time; was about inty and empowerment.

”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn D, Page 8 of the New York edn wh the headle: Michael F, 84, Nightclub Trendsetter Who Gave Gay Men a Place to Gather.

Ice Palace 57 was a gay distheque loted New York Cy’s Hell’s Kchen neighborhood that operated om 1977 to 1985.

The club was a popular statn for the gay men the muny durg a time when beg openly gay was not wily accepted.

They wanted to create a space that would be welg to gay men and alli, and they succeed dog so..

The club beme a symbol of the cy’s vibrant gay muny and a safe haven for those who wanted to dance and exprs themselv eely. But s legacy liv on as a symbol of the gay muny’s fight for acceptance, equaly, and the right to be fabulo.

If so post them the ments and help keep gay history alive. At the time, I was an troverted PhD ndidate the Cy of Angels wh no rmants to gui me through my rearch qut until my gay brother troduced me to Jenny — a genr nonnformg diva who took me unr her red phoenix wgs. They kicked her out of their hoe when they found out she was a gay boy and was flirtg wh a neighbor.

Jenny also troduced me to her iend Osr, a handsome and sg gay man om Shihuahua (Chihuahua, Mexi) who grew up El Paso. But after three s of unfettable parti — cludg South Beach’s righteo heyday as a ‘90s gay mec — Palace was bound to bee a legend. In the 90s, Palace started terg to the cy’s gay populatn.

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