The Olst Gay Bar Queens Secur Its Future Jackson Heights - Eater NY

Contents:

• GAY BARS QUEENS: WHERE TO PARTY JACKSON HEIGHTS
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• THE OLST GAY BAR QUEENS SECUR ITS FUTURE JACKSON HEIGHTS
• THIS LATO-HEAVY, AND GAY FRIENDLY, NYC NEIGHBORHOOD REMEMBERS ORLANDO
• LATO GAYS EN QUEENS
• THE BT GAY CLUBS MIAMI FOR A NIGHT OUT WH THE BOYS
• GAY NIGHTLIFE BALTIMORE: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC

GAY BARS QUEENS: WHERE TO PARTY JACKSON HEIGHTS

Gay bars Queens tend to be outsi the gipster strongholds of Astoria and Long Island Cy (those gays are close enough to Manhattan that they're willg to mute for nightlife). Queens' gay bars are ncentrated slightly further out, the racially and culturally diverse neighborhood of Jackson Heights.

The fact that Manhattan is kd-of a schlep om here has led not jt to longevy for a uple bars, but to a fully thrivg scene centered on Roosevelt sptg distance of one another you’ll fd Te Colors, Club Evolutn, Bum Bum Bar and Queens’ olst gay bar Friends’ Tavern. Club Atlantis is among mory upsle gay nightclubs loted Queens brought by Latos throughout the urban area of New York and Long Island. The olst gay bar Queens, Friend’s Tavern, will rema Jackson Heights at 78-11 Roosevelt Avenue, near 79th Street.

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Though was not immediately clear whether Friend’s was imment danger of closg whout purchasg the se, many gay bars have feared they wouldn’t be able to survive the panmic. QUEENS, NY -- “I am gay.

Fabian Arias, as he and others gathered at the Manhattan Cocktail Lounge btlg Jackson Heights, New York Cy neighborhood — where roughly half s rints intify as Lato — is home to gay-iendly plac like the Manhattan Cocktail Lounge, Te Colors, Friend’s Tavern and Hombr Lounge, tablishments which have transformed the area to a refuge or sanctuary for the Lato LGBT, the senr pastor of the Lutheran Church of Sn, loted at St. Peter’s Church Manhattan, marched on the neighborhood's inic and diverse Roosevelt Avenue wh LGBT activists, rints and muny lears holdg ndl, banners, flags and photos to remember the 49 victims of Sunday’s mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida.

THE OLST GAY BAR QUEENS SECUR ITS FUTURE JACKSON HEIGHTS

RELATED: Lato Communy H Hard Orlando Shootgs, Most Victims Were Hispanic“Sce Sunday, I have marched every night for our rights, ” said Democratic New York Cy uncil member Daniel Dromm Spanish to marchers ont of the Jackson Heights gay Club Evolutn. “We have to liver the msage that we will not accept homophobia, transphobia or Islamophobia. ”Marchers pose at vigil for LGBT and Latx victims of the Orlando ConThe uncil member explaed durg the vigil how the neighborhood's LGBT clubs and bars helped him rec support for the Queens Pri Para held here Jackson Heights and have helped make this part of the Big Apple, home to so many immigrants and New Yorkers of different natnali, to a safe space for the gay the mass shootg has ma some LGBT Latos feel vulnerable and isolated, Hugo Car Ovejero—anizer for Latos Diferent, a New York-based support group for gay and bisexual men—remd marchers at the vigil that they are not alone.

And Jackson Heights, among the many cultur and natnali, the neighborhood's gay bars and clubs have been openg their doors to make everyone—gay and straight—feel like they are part of an extend fay. “I’m not fed by a gay or heterosexual flag, ” said Hector Marquez, owner of the Manhattan Cocktail Lounge, to NBC Lato.

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Club Evolutn’s owner has been Lorenzana’s uncle (gay, not blogil) for twenty years. Acrdg to cy uncilmember Daniel Dromm, who reprents Jackson Heights and nearby Elmhurst, the first Queens Pri ftival began a now-funct gay bar on Roosevelt and 81st Street lled Bachelor’s.

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In 1992, wh the neighborhood still reelg om the murr two years earlier of Jul Rivera, killed by three gay-bashers a popular cisg area, Dromm and other anizers, wh the owner’s permissn, brought a ffee n rated homema wrappg paper and llected $54 om dnk patrons. “I uld be Lato and be openly gay. Friend’s Tavern (or Friend’s) Jackson Heights is known as the olst active gay bar Queens and has been owned sce 1989 by Eddie Valent and Casimiro Villa, bs partners and former personal partners.

It has been a particularly important nightlife space for gay and bisexual Lato men, many of whom, as immigrants, found a sense of muny an openly gay environment that they may not have had their native untri. Friend’s Tavern (popularly referred to as Friend’s) has been bs at this lotn sce 1989 and is nsired the olst operatg gay bar Queens. Valent, who along wh Villa also operat the nearby Club Evolutn, has lled this stretch of Roosevelt Avenue “the gay Village for Latos, ” reference to the historilly gay whe enclave of Greenwich Village Manhattan.

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Though Jackson Heights’ LGBT muny was predomantly whe datg back to the 1920s, many gay Hispanics moved as part of a large flux of Lato immigrants the 1970s and 1980s.

For Latos, the nightlife spac reflected the dance-driven cultur of their native untri, but also provid an openly gay atmosphere that, for many, was not available back home.

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Acrdg to LGBT rights activist and journalist Andrés Duque, walkg to Friend’s soon after emigratg om Colombia 1993 and seeg Colombian men kissg and dancg together was “a revelatn of [his] life and [his] gay life. ” Others also relled the signifince of beg around people wh shared backgrounds — Lato, immigrant, and LGBT — which fostered a sense of muny, particularly for those who moved to New York whout their fai or were forced to be more closeted their homeland (though gay bars did sometim exist urban areas) or their immigrant muni here.

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Two days after the June 12, 2016 mass shootg at the gay nightclub Pulse, Orlando, Florida, which the majory of the victims were Hispanic (and nearly half were Puerto Rin), Valent helped anize an English- and Spanish-language vigil outsi Club Evolutn that ntued along Roosevelt Avenue to Friend’s and Te Colors, another gay Lato bar. Valent, who knew some of the victims om when they lived Jackson Heights and equented Friend’s and other area bars, spoke about the importance of gay nightlife spac as safe havens:. There are a lot of [LGBT] people who e om other untri, and they leave primarily bee of the fact that there’s so much prejudice and homophobia their untri.

S., the first thg they do is look for a bs that’s gay, more likely a bar or a club, where they n make their first iends. While several newer gay Lato bars operate on and around Roosevelt Avenue, former bars and clubs clu the Love Boat, at 77-02 Broadway Elmhurst; Club Llamarada (pronounced “Yamarada”), a popular dance spot at 82-20 Baxter Avenue Elmhurst; and Lucho’s Place, at 38-19 69th Street Woodsi. As wh Friend’s, the bars were also equented by non-Lato gay and bisexual men om elsewhere the cy and Long Island wh an tert the Lato bar scene.

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