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Mapping New York's Irrepressible Gay Nightlife
The interactive project OUTgoing aims to map the history of New York City’s queer bars.
Back in the 1890s, the scene was on Bleecker Street, at a bar known as “The Slide.” The name was defiantly honest: it came from the era’s slang term for a place where men picked up other men for sex. The cops shut it down just a few years after it opened.
But they couldn’t shut down New York’s nighttime gay scene.