GAY BAR NYC 3RD AVENUE 27TH STREET CODE
The Lure - meatpacking district, the strict dress code prevented me from going in with my sneakers, but I was meeting someone there so I waited outside.Īll their 'loaner' boots were being used, so I sat on a platform and scanned guys feet, looking for a pair of sneakers coming out of the bar, which would signal a pair of loaner boots had just become available.īefore I knew it I was really liking just watching men's feet, and didn't even look up to see who they were attached to. my friend, standing with an over priced drink in his hand once drifted off to sleep and fell to the floor antsy rent boys used to circle the bar like sharks, among the tire kicking looky-lou johns. Gay' contest, and a chanteuse warbled at the piano. the two room basement bar was way over-air conditioned, a super hot bartender named Chris competed in some 'Mr. 50-something and 3rd, where a friend and I used to go to try to get johns. Kellers- on West Street, was fun on Sunday afternoons saw Mapplethorpe hang out in a corner, and met a guy I saw in the documentary Word is Out. Known as the Wrinkle Room, it was essentially an alcoholic assisted living facility. When one graduated from the Regent East, which happened very, very late in life, one could move on to the GH Club, way over East on 53rd. The number of people walking between the two seemed as though it would justify chartering a shuttle bus. There was also Bogart's, on East 59th Street, between First and Second. The lights were supplied with the pink bulbs that were typically used in funeral parlors to make the corpses look natural. The Regent East was down a few steps, and was loaded with hunting prints, club chairs, and had a piano in the back. It is the successor to The Regent East, which was at 204 East 58th Street, an address I committed to memory well before I had the nerve to walk in.
The Townhouse is still there, although its restaurant has closed. No surprise, really the chain belonged to Lou Katz, enforcer for Roy Cohn and alleged killer of at least one of his own boyfriends. The Uncle Charlie's on 37th was involved in the Bronfman kidnapping. R7, Harry's Back East was at about 81st Street, making it an easy commute to Charlie's Uptown, at about 74th on Lexington.