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• FORT HILLS' ONLY GAY BAR IS GOG STRAIGHT, OWNER SAYS
• FIRST GAY BAR FORT HILLS TO FEATURE BNCH PARTI
• OWNER OF ‘QUEENS’ OLST GAY BAR’ PURCHAS JACKSON HEIGHTS BUILDG THAT HO BAR
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

FORT HILLS' ONLY GAY BAR IS GOG STRAIGHT, OWNER SAYS

QUEENS — The only gay bar Fort Hills is havg an inty change, s owner said. Pri owner Ges Asptis, who opened the waterg hole on At Street October 2013, said the venue wasn't makg enough money and 's changg to a "neighborhood bar" to attract a broar bar will still be gay iendly but will no longer be scribed as a gay lounge, Asptis said Monday. First Gay Bar Comg to Fort Hills.

QUEENS — The first gay bar Fort Hills, which is slated to open on At Street next week, will host weekend bnch featurg loud mic, an upbeat atmosphere and possibly hookah, the owner said.

FIRST GAY BAR FORT HILLS TO FEATURE BNCH PARTI

“There is a large gay muny Fort Hills and Kew Garns, but there is no gay bar the area, ” Asptis said. Asptis said that recent chang, such as legalizg gay marriage New York, and Christe Qun, the first openly gay ndidate to n for mayor, enuraged him to open the bar. I was young and to arts and culture and movg profsnally to the theater and g out as gay.

I was terrified that somebody would fd out I was gay. I went to my first gay bar, Hatfield's, on Queens Boulevard. I was standg on Queens Boulevard and cryg and my iend manfully wiped away my tears and then said, "Well, there's another gay bar down the street.

So we went to this other gay bar lled Breadstix. I'm not the only gay du the neighborhood.

OWNER OF ‘QUEENS’ OLST GAY BAR’ PURCHAS JACKSON HEIGHTS BUILDG THAT HO BAR

How would I meet other gay men any other ntext? There were some issu my fay around my g out so I moved out at the start of my sophomore year of llege. I didn't have a good sense of my own inty other than the fact that I knew that I was gay.

And I would go gallivantg down Washgton Square South or down LaGuardia Place bee I thought that's what gay was, until I got a lot of that out of my system and then realized that felt really forced and performative and put on, and not a reflectn of whoever I was or whoever I wanted to bee.

I am not any way speakg ill of gay men who are, to e the term, flamboyant.

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

People should exprs themselv whatever way they see f, however and whoever they are, but I had to go through a phase of turng up the flamboyance to 11 orr to figure out exactly who I was as a young gay man. There are still parts of this untry where you n't be a teacher and be out and gay, but 30 years ago was fely not ol. There was a wonrful gay bar on St.

Marks Place, " and he's lookg at me, like, Why are you not pickg up on non-verbal cu, gay du?

There was this sense of edge and I thk there was all of that bee there weren't other distractns the way of technology and how you meet people, but I also thk was the reactn to all of the ath the gay muny. And was only when beme clear was not jt gay men who were g down wh the disease, but that was begng to n rampant the black and traveno er muny. You jt took one look at him and you knew that he was gay and that he was headg to Hatfield's.