The annual walk has been featured in The New York Times, The Advocate, and Paper Magazine. Your hosts for this walking tour are Kyle Supley & Michael Ryan, creators of “Gay Bars That Are Gone,” an annual walk through downtown NYC honoring LGBTQ spaces of yesteryear.
You’ll bar hop through stories of community, protest, artistic achievement, and plain old intrigue.Īll this, in the name of sparking a conversation about how to properly preserve and celebrate New York City’s “lavender landmarks” during one of the hardest times for nightlife venues in recent memory. Long the center of cultural evolutions and political activism, gay bars are critical locations to understand Queer history in America.
Throughout the years, we’ve catered to the Levi’s/T-shirt, leather, and bear communities. From discos and dive bars to piano bars and cabarets, this tour looks at the shifting typology of the gay bar in New York City. One of New York’s first gay bars to open after the Stone Wall Riot of 1969, Ty’s has been gay owned and operated since opening in 1972, and it’s always been a man’s bar.
