Gay New York: everythg LGBTQ travelers need to know - KAYAK

Contents:

• THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
• GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT
• THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
• ‘RIGHTEO ANGER WAS A PART OF ’: THE SHOCKG STORY OF NEW YORK’S GAY BAR KILLER
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• NEW YORK CY GAY CISE CLUBS
• NEW YORK CY GAY TRAVEL
• EXCLUSIVE: NEW FDNY FIREFIGHTER STARRED AT LEAST 10 GAY PORN FLICKS BEFORE JOG BRAVT

THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC

New York Cy, the birthplace of the Gay Rights movement at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, offers one of the largt and most diverse gay scen the world. Gay New York n be a b overwhelmg, but that's also part of the thrill -- your optns for what (or who) to enjoy at any time are endls.

While gay hubs like Chelsea, Hell's Kchen, and the Village are certaly worth visg, vibrant queer scen have spread to the Upper Wt Si, Queens, Park Slope, and Brooklyn. NYC also boasts perhaps the most tense gay nightlife -- is, after all, the cy that never sleeps.

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. 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. One of my favore thgs about Duplex is that don't feel the need to nform to any prenceived notn of what a gay bar is.

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Other mils wh queer them clu Come From Away, which clus the te story of Kev Tuerff and his partner, both of whom bee strand Newfoundland wh hundreds of others durg the 9/11 attacks, and The Book of Mormon, which often mocks relig bigotry agast gay people. Wh storeonts that are cked out rabow flags and a sassy, ice-cream-lickg unirn, Big Gay Ice Cream knows how to create a scene.

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”. “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.

As an exhsted and emotnal gay man says archival footage: “Do you know what is to be asslted for beg alive? ”It’s a grim picture by self but that era also saw another threat enter the ame, quietly and gomely pickg off gay men already livg on a knife’s Last Call killer, as the media me to ll him, mostly found his victims the one place his victims ed as safe refuge: gay bars.

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“The gay thg wasn’t really relevant to the vtigatn, apart om who might have killed him and where he hung out, ” one says, straight-faced. At another pot, a tective turns the qutns back to ask: “Why is the emphasis on the gay part?

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” Photograph: HBOWhile the thori dragged their feet, missg important leads and claimg ignorance over how to handle the se (“I don’t know about where all the gay bars are New York Cy, ” one says, a sense of rigid mascule pri unrlyg) and the media chose to eher ignore or salacly explo, was left up to the same activists who had helped the muny through the early stag of the HIV epimic and ntued to protect them om other forc to do the work.

“We’re hearg the same thgs over and over aga by Ron DeSantis, ” Caronna says, parg the rhetoric of now to that of before, phed by the hateful sger turned vol homophobe Ana Bryant, clud the seri. “It’s this legacy of homophobia that’s still very prent and then we get people like Tmp who stoke the flam of homophobia bee they know ’s a wedge issue, bee they know that their fanbase will love if they e after trans people or they e after gay people.

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It’s all about power, ’s all jt people knowg how to stoke the flam of homophobia for power. ”Last year also saw a story that chillgly mirrored elements of the Last Call killer’s se, wh a spate of men targeted at New York gay bars before beg murred. ”But what Last Call also do is show the undyg importance of the gay bar, even to those who might not unrstand s need (straight lleagu and iends have asked me why gay bars still exist when “Every bar is a gay bar now” and siarly, madngly, “Is g out even a thg anymore?

To both Caronna and Gertler, pecially at a time of tensified homophobia, the gay bar is as val as ever. “I thk we all have our own lived experienc and my lived experience happens to be the clost wh the gay people that I’m around, ” Caronna says. When Matt [Foreman] said I don’t thk straight people unrstand what ’s like to walk to a gay bar, we were like we need to put this le bee actually is a good way of amg .

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Flamg Saddl is the perfect mix of great drks, Amerina, gay culture and cute bar high energy gay bar rais the roof wh their bar top dancg bartenrs. 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. 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!

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Although certaly has petn om ci such as San Francis and Los Angel, one nnot ny that ’s one of the most welg and flourishg gay pals of the Uned Stat (and the world). Both s history and s thrivg morn-day LGBTQ scene make an easy choice for gay travelers to vis New York. It’s home to the largt LGBTQ populatn the Uned Stat, and ’s unlikely that you’d enunter any issu if you’re openly gay while visg.

If you do fd yourself any suatns that need assistance om LGBTQ legal, health, or advocy groups, The Gay Centre and the New York Anti-Vlence Project n offer substantial help.

New York’s gay scene nowadays is mostly ncentrated the Hell’s Kchen neighborhood of New York.

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However, s historil roots Chelsea and Greenwich Village are still gog strong, and you’ll fd some of New York’s most inic gay bars the areas.

You’ll also fd gay bars all over the cy, particularly East Village, Brooklyn, and Queens. Although historilly the bar’s owners were not always receptive to the ia, Greenwich Village’s Juli’ is generally nsired the olst gay bar New York Cy.

In 1966, the cy was orrg bartenrs not to serve LGBTQ people and revokg the liquor licens of gay bars.

The Mattache Society, one of the earlit gay rights anizatns the Uned Stat, held a “sip-” prott, which ultimately helped overturn the bans. Loted Hell’s Kchen, Indtry is one of the most popular gay bars New York, operatg sce 1991.

Named “New York’s Bt Gay Bar” by magaz such as GetOut and The Village Voice, Indtry is bt experienced on Saturday nights when attracts the biggt crowds and on Thursdays when featur Queen, one of the bar’s longt-nng and most popular weekly drag shows. The venue ed to be a gay dive bar and, although ’s not que as gay-foced anymore, you’ll still fd a sizable queer crowd here.

It’s a popular hangout spot for gay sports leagu/teams and hosts equent events and themed parti, cludg “80s Night” and “Jock Night. Whether they’re owned by gay people, loted gay areas, or jt popular wh gay clientele, the eateri are the perfect plac to refuel as you move om sightseeg to clubs.

Owned by gay entreprenrs, Big Gay Ice Cream is an ice cream tck that has won numero awards, cludg Bt Gay Ice Cream Parlour and Bt Food Tck the Country. This French-spired brasserie is a charmg, relaxed rtrant and a popular bnch spot wh gay clientele the area.

RALLY is ually the startg event and the spirual succsor to the “Gay Power” monstratn that occurred Washgton Square Park a few weeks after the ial Stonewall Rts.