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. Located in between one of our new favorite wine shops Forêt (from the team behind Ops Pizza) and a beloved churro spot, Sundown Bar is a tiny Ridgewood gem. 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. Special Pride Week Edition! Gay Bars That Are Gone TourĬelebrate Pride and see the historic gay bars of New York!įrom discos and dive bars to piano bars and cabarets, this tour looks at the shifting typology of the gay bar in New York City.
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