12 Lost Gay Bars of New York Cy

Contents:

• ONE OF NEW YORK CY’S OLST GAY BARS IS NOW A HISTORIC LANDMARK
• NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS

ONE OF NEW YORK CY’S OLST GAY BARS IS NOW A HISTORIC LANDMARK

New York's Lost Gay BarsWe've known for many years that too many of our cherished gay bars and clubs are shutterg, fallg victim to risg rents and the ubiquy of apps like Grdr and Scff. There's a walkg tour New York to memorate beloved gay bars and clubs that have closed down. The spac, whether always gay iendly or only durg certa tim of the day or week, gave LGBT people the eedom to be themselv a way they ually uld not be their personal or profsnal liv.

The bar is the se where three activists staged a simple act of prott 1966: openly announcg they were gay, then orrg a drk. They lled a “sip-, ” and the three men, members of the Mattache Society, an early gay-rights group, were hopg to challenge the New York State Liquor Authory’s ban on servg LGBTQ patrons. A bar uld be raid, and s liquor license rcd, for servg gay ctomers, who were nsired “disorrly” unr the le.

NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS

One of the cy’s olst gay bars, Juli’ had already been add to the Natnal Register of Historic Plac 2016—along wh nearby Stonewall Inn, the se of the famo 1969 protts that helped spark the Amerin LGBTQ rights movement. The first bar on their planned circu, the Ukraian-Amerin Village Rtrant, knew of the prott and closed early; had a sign the wdow that read, “If you are gay, please go away, ” as the New York Tim’ Thomas A.

“I drk, ” he told the Tim, “and who’s to say whether I’m a homosexual or not. At the time, Juli’ “was a rather dull neighborhood place which was about three-quarters gay, ” Randy Wicker, who joed the other three later that day, told the Tim’ Jim Farber 2016. But when the men arrived at Juli’ and announced that they were gay, the manager refed to serve them.