For more on the growing vaccination-only trend at NYC bars and restaurants, read this feature. In this Bar & Restaurant round-up, we asked restaurant owners. Most of the bars on this list require that you show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination at the door. Restaurants are used to challenges staffing issues and labor shortages being chief among them. In a nutshell: Cozy alternative Buffalo gay bar with touchscreen jukebox, friendly bar staff (owned by some Buffalo bar staff), shows on the TV, karaoke and daily happy hour. Here are 25 of our favorite LGBTQ spots across NYC. Now almost 40, Naps, as regulars call it, is the oldest gay bar and restaurant in Green Bay, according to Arnold.
In other words, it’s a refresher on all the places you can find your people in this big, newly reopened, queer city. That may be the case in New York City, where gay restaurants are going the way. Which is why you won’t just find LGBTQ bars on this guide, but also spots that host LGBTQ nights and events.Īfter a challenging year for this city’s LGBTQ spots, we’re highlighting everything from neighborhood hangs and bars that are great on weeknights to spots for the best local drag in the world and clubs for a big night out.
Greenwich Village, Chelsea, and Hell's Kitchen are among the most famous gay villages in New York City, but most of the city is very gay-friendly.
No matter where in the city you find yourself, you’re never too far from people in full mesh, studs in suits, drag queens and kings, club kids, and leather daddies. The following year, the first-ever gay pride marches took place in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Los Angeles to commemorate the anniversary of the Stonewall police raid that prompted the riots. New York City doesn’t just have one “gay neighborhood.” Sure, there’s Hell’s Kitchen and Chelsea - but this city is all just kind of gay everywhere.