Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture  | Mm of the Cy of New York

Contents:

• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• ‘I GOT AN UMBRELLA AND AMBN’: INDICTMENT REVEALS ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BEHD GAY BAR DEATHS
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• GAY-FRIENDLY HOTELS NEW YORK CY
• GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE
• THE TOP FIVE EMERGG GAY NEIGHBORHOODS OF AMERI

DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE

Muny is on edge after the before the Colorado mass shootg, a gay bar Manhattan was targeted for the fourth time this month when someone threw a brick at s Moon for The New York TimNov.

‘I GOT AN UMBRELLA AND AMBN’: INDICTMENT REVEALS ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BEHD GAY BAR DEATHS

21, 2022On Saturday, revelry at a gay bar Manhattan was terpted for the fourth time this month by someone throwg a brick at s plate-glass wdows at the bar, VERS, are shatterproof, so the attacks have not jured anyone, said s owner, David DeParola. The adly mass shootg has shaken gay muni across the sense of unease has been acutely felt New York, one of the untry’s gay cultural centers and the se of the 1969 Stonewall Inn uprisg, which is wily viewed as the birth of the morn gay rights York’s L.

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Muny at first regard the aths as isolated dg overdos: men who partied too hard, quotidian tragedi a gay nightlife scene that has roared back to life as the ronavis panmic has the men’s fai soon disvered somethg more sister: Cred rds the men’s nam were maxed out and their bank acunts draed of tens of thoands of dollars.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Muny, which emerged om the panmic to the jaws of a monkeypox outbreak, a landspe of stgglg and sometim shuttered bars and an creasgly hostile natnal polil have also spread fear and mor, while startg a broar nversatn about siar attacks that have quietly plagued the cy’s gay nightlife for years. Umberger were targeted bee they were gay, and they have not said if they believe the men’s aths and other nonfatal attacks are men who said they were dgged have stggled to nvce the police they were the victims of a crime and not jt irrponsible partygoers who took someone home and blacked Alarn, 33, said he was dgged at the Rz March 2020.

Umberger, The Tim has spoken to five men who said they were dgged at gay bars the cy — cludg the Eagle, the Boiler Room and the 9th Avenue Saloon — and then robbed. It is also ed recreatnally by some the gay Burt, 27, was robbed of more than $25, 000 after he was dgged at the Boiler Room the East Village last December. ImageCouncilman Erik Bottcher reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Moon for The New York TimGay bars hold a special place L.

GAY-FRIENDLY HOTELS NEW YORK CY

Councilman Erik Bottcher — who reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Village — lled “a goln age of nightlife. Bar Colorado addn, many gay bars are or near Midtown Manhattan, which has been transformed by panmic-era enomic llapse and acts of high-profile street crime. More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Dgggs, Deaths and Robberi Put Cy’s Gay Communy on Edge.

The dictments e after police have said they were vtigatg siar crim at bars, where they said gay people and straight people have both been victimized, acrdg to the New York Tim. The seasi rort on Fire Island, about 60 east of Manhattan, was known as far back as the late 1940s as a sanctuary where gay wrers, actors and bspeople om the cy and beyond ped to relax, hold hands and show affectn public. Cherry Grove and the nearby P neighborhood are the predomantly gay muni on Fire Island, although the P veloped s reputatn as a haven s after Cherry Grove.

GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE

"By the nature of s isolatn and bety, beme a safe haven for gay people, where they uld not be aaid of repercsns om work, or anger om their fai about beg gay, " said Thom "Panzi" Hansen, print of the Cherry Grove Arts Project.

Rints sought landmark stat for the Communy Hoe and Theater to jump-start tert fundg a renovatn of the 151-seat barn-like is only the third gay-rights landmark to get the feral signatn, jog the Stonewall, where gays clashed wh the New York Police Department for three days 1969 over harassment, leadg to the morn gay rights movement, and the Washgton, D. Kameny, who beme a gay rights activist after he was fired om his job wh the Army Map Service 1957 for refg to answer qutns about his sexual walls of the theater's basement drsg room feature tographs of many of the performers who lled the stage their temporary home. "Gay visors would - and still do - tch a Long Island Rail Road tra Manhattan for the 75-mute trip to Sayville and slowly beg to they got on a ferry for a 20-mute ri across Great South Bay to Cherry Grove, "personali changed.

Other gay enclav were begng to ga populary such plac as Provcetown, Mass., San Francis and Key Wt, Fla., but Cherry Grove "was whout qutn the leadg place that was predomantly gay, " he acceptance of gays and lbians evolvg to the pot where the Supreme Court has granted feral benefs to gay upl who are legally married, Romano and others say Cherry Grove - where visors are greeted by oversize Amerin and gay liberatn flags flutterg the wd - is more than ever seen as a fortable place for gays and straights to vis for the day, a weekend or all summer long.

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"Troy Fil, who has been g to Cherry Grove for about seven years, said people will always be attracted to what he lled "a gay and lbian Mayberry RFD. "Esther Newton, a Universy of Michigan women's studi profsor who wrote "Cherry Grove, Fire Island, " predicted that spe social chang, the Fire Island muny will rema a gay enclave long to the future.

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

Big onle Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.