Where fashion-y bears meet working stiffs.įourteen years in, the Tuesday-night B Bar bash is still the weekly court gathering of gay New York’s pose-y, under-40 fashion/media/finance axis. Wednesday nights packed with a young, arty, brainy lit-type crowd. Swooning speculation continues over the sexual orientation of Geoff, the friendly, shirtless, mustachioed bartender/apparition from a seventies-porn fever dream.įlaming-red-brick exterior encases popular, down-to-earth gay pub with cheap draft beer, pool table, and a juke that, on any given night, will spout early Madonna, MGMT, Morrissey, and the Supremes. Spiritual heir to the Cock-boys and men on the bearded, art-y, bear-y side-with a newish, instantly infamous Wednesday-night party, Le Raunch. “The place to take out-of-town guests, where you never know what’s gonna happen.” “Don’t go before 2 a.m.,” says Moylan, “because it’s not worth it.” (On same block as the glossier gay bars DTox and the Urge, making this the closest the E.V. “Lives up to its legend,” says Peter Hemmel of gay party guide HX. Late-night dive with great D.J.’s, trashy go-go boys, and ample debauchery moved here after a notorious seven-year run (1998-2005) on Avenue A and 12th St. “There’s definitely a higher tattoo quotient than at a lot of places.”Ģ9 Second Ave. Well-established Tuesday-night lesbian party draws crowd with “a rocker edge,” says one regular.
“Skinny scarves, V-neck T-shirts, tight jeans.” Typically first Saturday of the month. “Hipster gays come in from Brooklyn,” says Moylan. Monthly queerboy punk-rock party at Lower East Side hipster shrine Cake Shop, maintaining the boys-and-girls-together tradition of defunct nineties party Squeezebox.
“House music, fairly diverse, twinks and muscle boys.”Ĭake Shop 152 Ludlow nr. “A little bit old-school, like the Roxy grew up,” says Brian Moylan, editor of Next, a weekly gay party rag. Saturdays at Santos Party House 96 Lafayette St. Legendary drag queen Sophia Lamar hosts pictures taken (in the MisShapes tradition) and posted online weekly. Polysexual skinny-hipster party Fridays at the Annex, 152 Orchard St. Gays Gone Wild–style new Saturday-night party co-hosted by Josh Wood and longtime bad boy Jonny McGovern. Next party: Friday, June 26, at Wall Street Bath & Spa, 88 Fulton St., nr. Wildly popular monthly late-night party at a financial-district spa with pool, sauna, steam room, open bar, D.J.’s, performances. Even Staten Island’s getting its first gay bar in years! There are venues for Chelsea muscle boys, Billyburg alterna-queers, hyperlipsticked lesbians - and a good handful of spots where those types and more crawl all over each other. Forty years after the uprising at the Village’s Stonewall gay bar thatsparked the modern gay-rights movement, New York’s LGBT nightlife isfairly robust - still anchored in downtown Manhattan, but with animpressive array of options in the other boroughs.