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“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.
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“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.