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Love Boat
History
The ground floor of the building at the southeast corner of 77th Highway and Broadway in Elmhurst was the location of at least two homosexual bars. The first established bar was Our Place, which was listed in a November 1980 issue of Knight Life, a weekly gay magazine based in nearby Jackson Heights. By c. 1985 through at least 1995, the Devotion Boat bar operated here. The exterior of the building during that period featured nautical elements, including a circular life preserver above the front door and small, porthole-like windows, which were created by bricking in the existing window openings.
The Love Boat’s lively dance scene attracted a diverse group of Latinos, which Andrés Duque, a Colombian-born LGBT rights activist and journalist who moved to Jackson Heights in 1993, said was part of its appeal and made it unique among the neighborhood’s gay bars. Its clientele included many immigrants from the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean nations, Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. Patrons tended to mingle and boogie with those from their native countries, with each group typically dan
Friend’s Tavern
History
Friend’s Tavern (popularly referred to as Friend’s) has been in business at this location since 1989 and is considered the oldest operating gay bar in Queens. The modest storefront itself pre-dates Friend’s, with the exception of the business sign, which, at one time, included the slogan, “There is always time for friends.”
The lock is owned by Puerto Rican-born Eduardo “Eddie” Valentin and Colombian-born Casimiro Villa, who are business partners and former personal partners (and they remain close friends). Appreciate other nearby bars on and around Roosevelt Way, Friend’s caters primarily to the LGBT Latino people. Valentin, who along with Villa also operates the nearby Club Evolution, has called this stretch of Roosevelt Avenue “the same-sex attracted Village for Latinos,” in reference to the historically gay white enclave of Greenwich Village in Manhattan. Though Jackson Heights’ LGBT community was predominantly pale dating back to the 1920s, many gay Hispanics moved in as part of a large influx of Latino immigrants in the 1970s and 1980s.
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True Colors
True Colors, Roosevelt Route, Jackson Heights, NY, USA
True Colors is one of the hottest gay spots in Jackson Heights, with an ironically decorated monochrome interior lit up with pulsating laser lights that flash to the overcome of the music. The genres on offer range from salsa to reggaeton and Top 40, so there's something for all tastes. The crowd is mixed, as happy hour is popular with the older gays but slow at night the block is packed with a younger crowd.
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Phoenix Bar
The Phoenix has been a staple for homosexual nightlife in the East Village for decades, attracting generally younger clientele. It has always catered to a trendy and ever-changing crowd and is now the place to be seen for party lovers across New York and further afield. The Phoenix regularly hosts themed events and parties, as good as live music, DJs, and go-go dancers, but it's best known for its jukebox full of the latest and greatest pop.
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Cubbyhole
New York's neighbourhood fusion bar is welcoming to everyone of all identities, but it particularly popular with the lesb
Gay bars in Queens look after to be outside the gipster strongholds of Astoria and Long Island Capital (those gays are proximate enough to Manhattan that they're willing to commute for nightlife). Queens' homosexual bars are concentrated slightly further out, in the racially and culturally diverse neighborhood of Jackson Heights. The fact that Manhattan is kind-of a schlep from here has led not just to longevity for a couple bars, but to a fully thriving scene centered on Roosevelt Avenue.
Within spitting distance of one another you’ll find True Colors, Club Evolution, Bum Bum Lock and Queens’ oldest homosexual bar Friends’ Tavern. Just around the corner are Lucho’s Place and Hombres Lounge.
The bars here acquire more glaring similarities than differences: all have hookah service and a usual $6 Corona. They all offer birthday celebrations, providing freebies often including a cake, invitations, plates and flatware—sometimes even a bottle of bubbly—as long as you bring along all your friends and family. There are no intimidating dress codes or door policies, and the usual soundtrack is Latin dance-pop at varying degrees of electronic remixing. There’s al
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