Uncle Charlie's Downtown, one of earlit gay bars NYC, plans to close, endg what some nsir major chapter Greenwich Village's gay history (S)
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Uncle Charlie’s, which opened 1980 and closed September 1997, was one of the cy’s most popular gay vio bars and one of the first to appeal to gay men of the MTV generatn. The bar, wh s large morn terr and televisn screens, was a stark ntrast to the prr generatn of gay bars that were perceived as outdated and dark.
Although the police said the blast did not appear bias-related, Mayor David Dks and several gay rights groups characterized as an anti-gay attack sce Uncle Charlie’s was a well-known gay bar. Queer Natn was found March 1990 at the Lbian and Gay Communy Servic Center (now the LGBT Communy Center) wh the missn of elimatg homophobia and creasg LGBT visibily. They were outraged by the latn of vlence agast LGBT people the streets of New York, and the ntued existence of anti-gay discrimatn.
Nosair, one of the lears on trial for the terrorist nspiracy to blow up New York Cy landmarks, allegedly planted the bomb at Uncle Charlie’s as a prott agast homosexualy on relig grounds. Tony Pastor’s Downtown / Gay Communy Center. Uncle Charlie's Downtown opened the early 1980s Greenwich Village, part of a popular cha of gay bars New York Cy.