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FIRST BIG GAY ICE CREAM STORE CLOS EAST VILLAGE
Big Gay Ice Cream — the popular soft serve statn known as much for s whimsil flavors as is for s celebratn of LGBTQ culture — has closed s origal East Village lotn, at 125 East 7th Street, between First Avenue and Avenue A, EV Grieve reports. Petroff and Qut qu their day jobs to foc full time on the bs after the openg of the East Village shop, and Big Gay Ice Cream rapidly veloped a voted followg for flavors like the Dorothy, which featur vanilla ice cream jected wh dulce leche and then rolled cshed Nilla wafers, and Amerin Globe, another vanilla ice cream creatn wh dark pretzel piec vered a cholate shell.
For now, Big Gay Ice Cream’s Upper Wt Si and Wt Village lotns are open, but reopeng plans for other outposts haven’t been announced yet.
Big Gay Ice Cream founrs say goodbye to their very first shop [EVGrieve]. Begng as a seasonal food tck 2009, Big Gay Ice Cream has been named bt ice cream parlor--as well as bt food tck-- the untry, along wh numero other aclas. Now the pany has multiple lotns New York Cy & the last 10 years, founrs Douglas Qut & Bryan Petroff have published a crilly acclaimed okbook; appeared on numero tv programs; put on Big Gay Ice Cream pop-ups at ftivals around the world; llaborated wh a variety of ternatnal brands; spoken at a variety of nferenc & semars, cludg givg a TED talk; & taken the ice cream tck on tours across the untry.