THE 10 BEST New York Cy Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

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• TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS TIM SQUARE (NEW YORK CY)GAY CLUBS & BARS TIM SQUARE
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• ‘MY FIRST GAY BAR’: RACHEL MADDOW, ANDY COHEN AND OTHERS SHARE THEIR COMG-OUT STORI
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• THIS PHOENIX SPOT IS ONE OF THE BT GAY BARS THE US — EVEN THOUGH 'S NOT A GAY BAR
• MOSW GAY BARS
• MOSW GAY MAP
• THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC

TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS TIM SQUARE (NEW YORK CY)GAY CLUBS & BARS TIM SQUARE

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Durg the “Pansy Craze” om the 1920s until 1933, people the lbian, gay, bi, trans and queer (LGBTQ) muny were performg on stag ci around the world, and New York Cy’s Greenwich Village, Tim Square and Harlem held some of the most world-renowned drag performanc of the time. All of this activy existed durg cultural time that, as historian Gee Chncey wr his book Gay New York, many people believe “is not supposed to have existed. Sudnly, when everyone was on the search for newly illegal alhol, black and whe gay and lbian life me to ntact wh one another and domant society.

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The drag balls, some form, may have e om masquera balls bed wh gay nightlife of the late 1800s. While the Haton Lodge Ball may have begun the 1860s or ‘70s, probably didn’t ga a predomantly gay and lbian prence until the 1920s.

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By the mid-30s, was the largt annual ball held New York, attractg spectators who were gay, lbian, straight, black and whe all at once. ” Chncey wr that even “the most “obv” gay men stood out ls Tim Square.

In the ‘20s and early ‘30s, g out had to do wh makg a but to the gay and lbian world, and was rived om when wealthy women would “e out” formally to high society.

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“They didn’t see a nflict between not beg openly gay at work and sort of only beg gay durg their leisure time, ” says Heap, addg that a person’s class was likely ditive of how you might participate gay and lbian culture at the time.

“The were moments when workg class gay men and women uld more eely explore their sexualy, sir, and terts cross drsg, but probably no doctor or lawyer is gog to drs up drag at the events, out of risk of beg exposed. ” Most middle and upper class gay men and lbians sat the upper booths at drag events among straight people, g the populary as a ver. Sex-crime panic grew, and gay men and lbians were seen as dangero to society.

Prohibn was repealed, and the New York State Liquor laws were updated to serve alhol only plac that were “orrly”, which didn’t apparently clu gay and lbian nightclubs. “To e the morn idm, ” Chncey wr, “the state built a closet the 1930s and forced gay people to hi . ” In the mid ‘30s, productn s were put to effect that rtricted and prevented performanc of openly gay characters film or theater, and the followg s, thoands of LGBTQ people were arrted post WWII for equentg their own clubs.

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It wasn’t until the 1970s and 80s that historians examed this part of gay and lbian life. Christian Hansen for The New York TimJune 22, 2016For generatns of gays and lbians, pecially those for whom walkg to the sometime secret and darkened doorway of one was often the first step the g-out procs, gay bars have long held a signifint place their personal was never more apparent than the days followg the mass shootgs at Pulse, the gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., which 49 patrons lost their liv, and which prompted many to rell the nights they had spent siar settgs, and the sense of muny they found there. “Every gay man Ameri remembers the first time they went to a gay bar and how they felt.

”“I don’t want to sound like I’m speakg for the gay muny, ” said Mr. ”Below, some other proment gays and lbians rell what gay bars meant to them as they began to embrace their sexualy, some eagerly and some nervoly.

Charl Syk/Invisn, via Associated PrsAndy Cohen Televisn host and producerI ed to sneak away om my straight iends at Boston Universy and go to Chaps (gay bars often have hypermascule nam) Boston’s Back Bay. Pre-ter, gay bars were tegral our social velopment. They were an pe om the (often uniendly) outsi world, packed every night of the week, and everyone si was a Heisler/The New York TimLarry Kramer Playwright, thor and activistIn 1953, gay bars were sry.

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I thought I was the only gay man there. He’d e all the way om Hartford to fd his gay was my g out at Yale. It would still be a bunch of years before gay bars would start beg ls sry, and a lot of Beck/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagJane Lynch ActrsThe first gay bar I ever went to was the Cubbyhole when was on Hudson Street the Wt Village.

Brendan Hoffman/Getty ImagRachel Maddow Host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” The first time I went to a gay bar was 1990, thanks to a fairly terrible fake ID that I bought for $25.

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That fake ID was my lifele for years bee got me to the only plac where I uld fd the gay muny that I so wanted to be part of. Gay bars and clubs were the alpha and the omega for me then. Charl Syk/Associated PrsBilly Eichner Actor and edianMy first gay bar New York was the Duplex, bee was kd of a soft lnch to the gay world.

” That may have been my first gay bar over all.

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I went to school at Northwtern and lived wh a bunch of gay guys, and we would go out to Boystown, the big strip of gay bars Chigo. There was one lled Charlie’s Chigo, which was a gay untry-and-wtern bar.

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I was, like, I’m gay, but I’m not to this.

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Elizabeth Lippman for The New York Tim Honey DijonPerformerRialto Tap Chigo was the first black gay bar I went to, and what I really remember was the cracked tile dance floor. We were both gay newbi.

There was only one gay club that we knew of. From that day on, “bakery” was our word for gay Hawthorne/Getty ImagKeh BoykBroadster and thorOn a Sunday night July 1991, at a sprawlg plex lled Tracks the District of Columbia, I found thoands of young black gay men and lbians. At tim, as I walked around the three dance floors, seemed as though everyone Washgton was gay.

But here, unlike the whe gay clubs, the patrons appreciated, and fact reveled , black bety. For the first time my life, I felt not only siro of others but sirable to them as Counts/Getty ImagAlison BechlCartoonist, thor of the graphic memoir “Fun Home” My first gay bar was Satan’s, Akron, Oh. But that night, the large mixed crowd (there weren’t enough gay people to support a separate club for women), I experienced the profound existential relief, for once, of not beg the only queer.