1970s nyc gay bars

Sweaters worn over the shoulders and tied in a knot in the front, Gucci loafers and no socks and pleated khakis pants. I remember hearing they had great hamburgers there, but that wasn't enough motivation to get me in there. We are changing the login scheme for contributors for simpler login and to better support using multiple devices.

Please complete the process by verifying your email address. Hello and thank you for registering. Some features on this site require a subscription. It's where I met the guy with whom I had my first kiss, first date and first same sex encounter. Yes, I sound old. Believe it or not but a monthly gay hipster party called "Mattachine" is ran there, which is how I know about this bar.

Julius is still open. If you can't find the email you can resend it here. I was pretty much closeted and had never even kissed a guy, but I remember the exhilirating sense of freedom and liberation I know Addicted to that feeling, I probably went there more than I should have, but it was such an amazing experience.

Hello and thank you for being a DL contributor. For me, the old Uncle Charlies on Greenwich holds a special place in my heart. Also loved going up to the roof bar in the summer A great, great club- so much fun. That place skeeved me out just from the outside, and I never set foot in there.

I don't know it from it's heyday but it's pretty cleaned up now. Club USA was so beautiful! Non-stop cruising. I got kicked out of the Mine Shaft once for having cologne on, but I met some hot guys there. Sporting a smokey and dark atmosphere, leather bars of the ‘70s and ‘80s were undoubtedly popular but were mostly diminished due to the impending AIDS crisis.

While their significance is often underestimated or dismissed by heterosexual society, bars and other establishments played a pivotal role throughout the 20th century — but particularly in the pre-Stonewall era — as centers for LGBT activism and community. Is Julius still there?

(The “New York City Gay Scene Guide” of included listings for “all the exciting gay bars, clubs, baths, motels, meeting places THROUGHOUT the CITY” while the edition promised, “Realistic: Only those places where you will be welcome are listed.”). And I met the un-love of my life at the Ninth Circle.

Is Townhouse still open? Some features on this site require registration. Often located in industrial parts of the city, these spots were routinely raided by police and widely criticized by the public for their overtly sexual nature. Please click here to register for free.

Please click here to update your account with a username and password. Harry's Back East up on Third and 88th Street? I loved the mugler room I think that's where the would play a lot Of classic disco. It seems so long ago, but the memories are still vivid. Learning that the Mafia operated most of the gay bars in the '50s and '60s in New York City and why -- mind-blowing!.

And it was a time before big muscles and shaving every inch of the body were in vogue. Hustlers at 52nd and 53rd Streets and married johns in cars in the 60s. It was only after someone told me about its history that I learned that it's NYC's oldest gay bar.