It also has one of the best happy hours in town (serving mini-quiches, pigs in a blanket, and some kind of mystery tuna spread on Ritz crackers.) The dance floor downstairs is a hidden gem, including Sunday’s Disco Classic Tea Dance with Lady Bunny, Johnny Dynell’s Manster, and Sabor Latino.Ĭovered with photos and vibrating with history, this bar - which opened in 1864 - is a living, breathing gay museum. Best of all, older men feel comfortable here, because the bar crosses generations and color lines. This is where you can find tourists and PATH train commuters mingling with theater queens who belt out songs at the upstairs piano bar. This fabulously decorated flatiron-shaped bar brings in a wonderfully diverse clientele. The great Scott Ewalt DJs on Thursdays, and CVNT on Tuesday nights brings in a younger crowd.
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Saturdays is Wack, with DJs Kindbud and Aaron Cobbett. Rough-edged, covered in band stickers, and carved with little weird nooks and dark corners, this place is like a filthy, seductive, alluring alleyway. The Cock moved into the former Lit Lounge (where straight people used to make out like gays), so the sexy atmosphere is already built into the walls. This unashamedly punky, vital East Village gay bar relocated last summer, and the new address is a vast improvement. It also has an eclectic and dynamic roster of DJs and themed nights, including the long-running Double Headed Disco (last Saturday of the month), the ritualistic Witch Camp, and a night for ginger enthusiasts, Fire in the Hole. This is also where the alternative Joe’s Pub cabaret and comedy set come for postshow drinks, so bring your friend from Seattle or Berlin here first if they want to see the performance scene flirt and mingle without pretension. The video screen blinks weird porn and video art, Bushwick genderqueers flirt with Chelsea gallerists, and the long, deep space has plenty of alcoves and seating if you’re seeking a bit of quiet. This is where artsy gay men, women, and anyone who doesn’t care for labels converge (depending on the night - it’s still a man-based bar) to listen to DJs who play music that doesn’t sound like Rihanna choking on a Red Bull. 56th Street)Īnd of course there’s always your home.Part of the East Village gay-bar renaissance of the ’90s and ’00s, Nowhere has long been regarded as the less populated, forgotten sister to other joints like Eastern Bloc or the Cock - but the venerable basement bar has evolved to become the central watering hole of NYC’s queer art, music, and performance scene. Lay down, spread your legs–and play safe! (227 E. It’s been there for decades, so there must be some hot, available junk there. Same owners, same vibe, pretty much the same rates.
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The same attitude prevails, and everyone seems afraid to make a move, but maybe you’ll get lucky and meet Mr. They say it’s “an alternative to the bar scene,” but it’s really just the bar scene with fewer clothes on, and with a sauna. Some cuties, some mental patients, and some cute mental patients. A low-rent Times Square video store, the upstairs is lined with booths which are supposed to be only for one, though that’s hardly enforced, as long as you put a dollar in the slot for porn films. (The last time around, they moved the location to Brooklyn, sending a bus from Chelsea. A bathhouse-y party that starts slowly, but after the toweled (and usually hot) patrons have had a few thousand drinks, it becomes a nouveau version of the twin cities–Sodom and Gomorrah. Just walking to the bar there, you might find yourself suddenly entrenched in a nine-way involving every fetish you never even dreamed of.
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Here they are, in all their grubby desperation and/or fascinating appeal: Yes, there are still some places, even in the wake of crackdowns and internet hookups.