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• HARDWARE STORE WH ‘NO GAYS ALLOWED’ SIGN PAYS FOR ON YELP
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE

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Centrally posned midtown Manhattan jt mut om Tim Square, the Theater District and Rtrant Row, the gay-owned and operated HARDWARE shows talent om the most spectacularly entertag drag queens -- both lol and guts om all over the untry -- and some of the bt DJ's NYC.

HARDWARE STORE WH ‘NO GAYS ALLOWED’ SIGN PAYS FOR ON YELP

David Hodo, The Village People’s rint nstctn worker Loted at 697 10th Avenue between 47th and 48th Streets the heart of Manhattan's Hell's Kchen, Hardware Bar is a former electril-supply store turned gay bar that first opened s doors 2012.

Hardware is owned and operated by Jt Buchanan and Eric Este, who also n both Piec and Playhoe, two extremely popular gay bars suated Greenwich Village. Now operatn for over a , the gay-owned Hardware has bee well known for ntuoly showsg talent om some of the most renowned drag queens the bs, many of whom have gone on to pete on RuPl’s Drag Race, cludg Bra Filter, Monét X Change, and Kandy Me, as well many who seem sted to appear on the popular realy TV seri any day now, like Jasme Rice Labeija, Harriet Tugsmen and Skye Walker.

Space, reftg for a gay bar while matag some of the origal elements and tegry om the former tenant., Ackert built out to the gay bar that we know and love today, promently featurg s glass roll up garage door and arched half moon transom, which n open pletely durg the warmer months. Hardware Bar om the si, photo by Rob AnrsonThkg of Hardware’s past as a leral hardware store led me to nsir the recurrg trend throughout history of gay bars that have taken their nam or rived their imag om siarly dtrial or nstctn-related termology. Sometim, the gay bars are simply blue-llar-butch name alone.

WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE

” The Works logo, photo by Marc ZamanThe rt of the Uned Stat has also had plenty of blue llar named/themed gay bars over the years. Florida, meanwhile, has had Jackhammer, Steel, Stud, Chrome, Body Shop, Enge Room, and the list go on…So clearly, gay men, who historilly have been stereotyped as perhaps crafty and artistic but hardly good wh a monkey-wrench, have a long-standg fatuatn wh a tool box. All sorts of plumbg phraseology has been opted to gay sex nuendo (Do you need your pip checked?

The Tool Box logo above, Toolbox logo belowThen, of urse, there’s the ever popular gay slang term that often gets thrown around: “tra”. But addnally, one of the more popular ag of tra volv addg the word “rough” before , as “rough tra”, which the gay world has typilly been ed to refer specifilly to workg-class laborers wh perhaps ls tn and more physilly mandg work (i. There is often a ltful aspiratn volved wh “tra”—the men are attractive, mascule-prentg, possibly heterosexual, total objects of sire, and s’s often been drilled (no pun tend) gay men’s heads that this is the ial.

A blue-llar fantasy has most certaly been cultivated across generatns of gay culture—whether was the drawgs of Tom of Fland, the wrgs of Samuel Delaney (see Through the Valley of the Nt of Spirs) or jt the untls pornographic magaz and vios where strappg plumbers, to repairmen, and rpenters (NSFW) are the stars of the ’s artwork for the Mhaft equently featured a mcled nstctn worker But now gettg back to Hardware, which hardly leans to this macho fantasy, and is tly only blue-llar by name and former inty.