Why Beg “Gay the ’70s New York and L.A. Was Magic” (Gut Column) – The Hollywood Reporter

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• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• MOVG TO LGBT NEW YORK CY, NEW YORK? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)

THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY

How AIDS shattered the silence about gay liv. A longtime hangout for lbians and their iends, the Cubbyhole is one of the few lbian bars a neighborhood where the morn gay rights movement got natnal attentn after a police raid at the nearby Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969. “The gay pri para wasn’t a para, ” Grant said.

Today she walks past the “Gay Liberatn” (1980) statu by sculptor Gee Segal Christopher Park, protected 2016 along wh the Stonewall Inn as a Natnal Park Service se, by then-Print Barack Obama.

This is where she would get a drk at the Cubbyhole or dance until dawn at Garbo’s lbian bar or Cnamon Productns monthly danc for women of lor at Octagon (a gay men’s club), followed by chicken and waffl at the Pk Tea Cup, a soul food rtrant. Vcent’s Hospal to say goodbye to her gay male iends dyg of AIDS, and head out to the streets to prott for the rourc to fd a cure.

MOVG TO LGBT NEW YORK CY, NEW YORK? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

That means gay-themed books n be found at Barn and Noble, and now Amazon, and LGBTQ upl n hold hands at rtrants and bars that serve a wir muny. The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Communy Center, now on Wt 13th Street, is Grant’s startg pot for any LGBTQ newbi to New York Cy. And she’ll still head to the Cubbyhole or Henrietta Hudson for a drk, a spot that charg ls than the typil New York pric for s drks, where baby dyk and veterans of the gay civil rights movement hang out, listen to tun om the jebox and talk about the tensn between progrs and rememberg where you me om.

As they gather at the Cubbyhole, Grant and her iends hope that other lbians, gay men, bisexual and transgenr people – both whe and people of lor – will remember the battl long and hard fought. 27 plac sorted by traveler favorBars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)What travelers are saygDgn1010Dungannon, UK392 ntributnsSo ol to be drkg such a historil bar. Flamg Saddl is the perfect mix of great drks, Amerina, gay culture and cute bar high energy gay bar rais the roof wh their bar top dancg bartenrs.

I went to a few gay bars, and by far this was the bt place to dance and the mic was the bt here, varied, and not too much dance mic like you got your head bangg a fish bowl!

WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)

If you have gay iends like me, brg them there, you will have the bt night out!

There are plenty of gay bars up and down 9th ave and there's no reason to spend money at a place that will treat you like total trash, threaten you, and be unnecsarily belligerent and make you feel unsafe jt bee they're on some kd of power trip. Chanc are, if you’re readg this, you’ve heard somethg fabulo about Upstate New York or you’ve wonred to yourself “is the Hudson Valley gay iendly? Workg your way up the river, one of the first towns wh our Big Gay Hudson Valley is the village of Cold Sprg Putnam County.