It appears that there are just a hand full of people who remembers that magnificent time back in the 80s. Though the neighborhood looks the same. Names of places have changed. Equus is now I-Candy. The Kesmon Hotel is now the Alexander Inn,Key West is closed and my favorite place of all Kurtz is long gone. Going to Cheap Art cafe after the clubs closed on 12th Street and watching all the goings on while eating your meal. Okay the place wasn’t that clean but the action outside was a show in its own! It was a place to go [...]
Sunday Night at the Eagle’s Nest 1979 NYC
The late night cruise was anything but looking for love. The musty bar smell, the poppers and the music they all set the mood on a late Sunday Night in New York City in 1979. Queen – ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’, Courtesy of queenofficial. Thank you ...
Levi Leather Bar 1994 Open for Previews
Contributed to back in the gays is an invite from the opening night of The L.U.R.E. Saturday January Twenty Ninth, 1994 9:00pm – 4:00am. This was one of the best leather bars in New york City at the time and we sure do miss it. Tons of good memories and parties were held at the L.U.R.E. . Also remember being turned away on numerous occassions for hiking boots, while watching the guys in leather walk right in with their full drag. AwW the memories… Alot of the times we would have a better time outside than inside or maybe it [...]
L.U.R.E. Saturday January 29, 1994
New York‘s Brand New Bar For Men Into Leather – Uniform – Rubber – Etc. . The LURE was located on the rim of the West Village at Four Hundred Nine West Thirtenth Street New York City and here is the official opening party invite contributed to http://backinthegays.com. ...
Remnants of Past Christopher Street 2011
A walk in the West Village New York City on a Sunday in early 2011. Everywhere we looked we were looking at the past around us. It was a Sunday afternoon a very mild winter day walking down Tenth Street on our way we passed old manufacturing buildings that are now living spaces. When I started coming to New York City from Philadelphia in the late 1980′s most of these areas had become seedy, with abandonment and trash everywhere. Well that was then and this is now. A more gentrified street lay before us, even the trash had changed, what twenty years [...]
The Spike Bar New York City Matchbook
The Spike leather bar New York City located at 120 West eleventh avenue on twentieth street opened their doors in 1972 and below is a late 1980′s original matchbook from this leather gem contributed to backinthegays.com by our extended family Chris Riley from Body Ornament. Thank you ...
Which Way to the Piers? Girl Follow the Queers… 1977
Picture it, the pier 1977… D train to West 4th and walk, we snapping our gum walking down the block… It’s a sane summer day I’m feeling it, giggling, rolling my eyes, hanging with my friends… Which way to the pier, gurl follow the queers… Walking pass the bars with a bottle of beer… When you cross the West Side highway put your face on with out delay, cause some queens might pull some foul-play slap a brick and challenge you… All the houses were there, fashions everywhere… Throw your hands up in the air, the time to Battle is [...]