... Toilet was once New York City‘s most outrageous gay man’s Bar, housed in an old 1886 Building known as the Kelly Building and Henry Aubert Paper, Boxes on 14th street and Ninth Avenue in the Meat Packing District. The Toilet located at 400 West 14th Street from what we hear was exactly that! Perfect bar for those “Wet n Messy” kinky voyeurs that seek out a little more excitement than just your average vanilla sex acts. In order to enter this bar you would have to enter an elevator from the ground level and take it up to the 3rd floor. Below we [...]
Barbary Coast Bar New York City “a Bit of Gay Frisco”
... Coast located at 62 West Seventh Avenue opened in 1977 in the former lobby of an old grand hotel that had opened in the early 1900′s when 14th street was the theater district of New York City. Pictured below is of an original Barbary Coast ashtray from the 15th anniversary dated October 31, 1992, contributed to backinthegays.com by someone in the nYc area. Thank ...
This Street We Call Christopher 1799 nYc
... gay liberation movement began. In the 1970′s during the sexual revolution, Christopher Street was the main drag (no pun intended) for gay men to profile and cruise. This was the time when gay bars were popping up on every other corner and leather fetish clothing stores were also becoming more & more visible on Christopher Street. During the 1980′s this all changed drastically because of the onslaught of AIDS. Then by the mid to late 1980′s things started moving above 14th Street into Chelsea. Which is when Christopher Street started losing its POP! its ...
The Life and Times of Nelson Sullivan RIP 1948-1989
... Beyond the confines of downtown New York Nelson Sullivan wasn’t particularly famous, but within its boundaries (from 14th Street to Houston Street and from 5th Avenue to Avenue D) everyone knew Nelson because almost every night he was going out and documenting his surroundings. During the last ten years of his life he shot over 1800 hours of tape, capturing himself and his friends in the glossy facade of Manhattan’s Downtown life that has been perpetuated in urban legend. Sullivan chronicled the rise and fall of many of his friends and peers including Michael Musto, RuPaul, Dean Johnson, ...
Miss Peanut Does New York City, Fabulous Leigh Bowery
... Peanut (Leigh Bowery) is captured in the Meatpacking District during the late 1980′s to early 1990′s before the city cleaned up MPD area. Great street scene video of what 14th street use to look like (The L.U.R.E., Jay’s Hang out, Hellfire Club, The Cock, and The Clit Club were all in the area during the filming by Charles Atlas of this video). Before the so-called beautification of 14th & Washington street, high line park (Old New York Central), Jeffery New York, Apple 14th street, and Diane furstenberg. In this video we can also see where Michael Alig, James St [...]