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The Toilet New York City’s 1970′s Gay Bar
The 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 [...]
Just an Innocent Boy From the Suburbs of Toronto
Hi Everybody, I have a few stories to share with you about New York City and what it was like for me to discover it at the tender age of 15. Let me preface my memories by first explaining how it was that I ended up there. The late 70′s and early 80′s were very important pivotal years for gay rights in Toronto. There use to be a a gay bar called the St Charles on Yonge St., Toronto’s main strip. Somehow a “tradition” was started every Halloween when HUNDREDS of homophobes would line the opposite side of Yonge, directly [...]
Omega, Danny’s, Rumples, the Zipper, the Bushes, the Duplex
More great ads from a time in New York City where gay establishments were all around you in Manhattan. Out of all these bars Duplex is the only bar still around in 2011 (Not in the location stated in picture 4). Disco Cabaret Omega – 347 West 41st Street Danny’s Bar – Disco – Sunday Brunch – 108 Montague St. Brooklyn Rumples Salt & Pepper Dancing – Cruising Bar – 140 7th Avenue So. Off Sheridan Square Playroom Yonkers (Gay Owned) – The Zipper 371 West 46th St. – Andy Thomas Anselmo, The Bushes of Central Park West 23 West [...]
Those Were the Gays My Friend (I Thought They’d Never End)
I’ve had the worst luck with this hideous infection, otherwise known as WebTV, so please forgive me, but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna pour my heart out about the days that were only to be blocked by some ridiculous ridiculousness originating somewhere in the bowels of this machine.. and so, if this gets through I will gladly delete it and start fresh, with a whole new attitude and everything! Isn’t that exciting? I’m not the bitch this machine is trying to turn me into, I promise! I’m almost always patient, it takes a whole lot to rattle me but [...]
Most Talked About Night Club in the World Finocchio 1963
Joe “Finocchio” located at 506 Broadway in San Francisco opened on June 15th, 1936 and closed after 63 years of serving the community on November 27th 1999. The most interesting women are not women at all. They are Finocchio’s accomplished female impersonators. That is why the show at Finocchio is always tops in entertainment. At Finocchio you will see woman, that miracle of divine contradictions, in all her prismatic gyrations. Women who step is music, who’s voice is song. Women whom Victor Hugo called “The Enigma of the nineteenth century,” who Confucius called a masterpiece, whom Tennyson called the lesser [...]
Heading to the Spike and Eagle’s Nest 1979
Cruising through New York City on a mild night back in 1979. Where to go? What to do? Some beefy leather daddies hanging on Eleventh Avenue between the Spike bar at 2oth street and the Eagle’s Nest at 21st Street. Lets go check them out and groove with them. Boogie wonderland – Earth Wind and Fire, Courtesy of rufus53557 Thank you ...