Today's best gay bars span dives, dance clubs, cocktail lounges and community spaces, helping to shape popular drinking culture at large (via punch_drink)
, the queer-adjacent cocktail bar at Manhattan’s The Standard, East Village that opened in partnership with queer chef Angela Dimayuga in 2019, and a longstanding community space like Cubbyhole, where drinks are cheap and giving back is inherent to the culture.
“Inclusive” feels different when “a huge part of the queer community can’t afford to go there,” Shockey says of some upscale bars. She wants to see these new spaces answering urgent needs in the community, as the West Village’s Henrietta Hudson, which itself has revamped as a wine-and-cocktail bar, did when becoming a COVID-19 testing center last summer.
At Oddly Enough, the co-owners are aware that they are two women who opened a space in a historically Black neighborhood , and are exploring what it means to be part of that and give back. “We thought it was necessary to show that we’re not just here for the LGBTQ community, but for the community as a whole,” co-owner Caitlin Frame says. A portion of opening month sales were donated to
and a portion of May’s sales will go to Dyke March, a grassroots protest down Fifth Avenue every June.follows a similar ethos, adding 69 cents to every menu item, like the Fermented Turnip Top ’Tini and the Garden Orgy to donate to racial justice and mutual aid organizations. “69 represents reciprocity,” says Lil’ Deb’s owner Carla Perez-Gallardo. “We really believe in sharing.
As queer social space continues to evolve, further integrating with drinking culture, there’s no limit to what the queer cocktail bar can become. Inspired by the rise in queer cocktail culture, Hena Mustafa is planning to open the aforementioned Boyfriend as a queer-run coop in 2023. “It’s not so much that we want to do something vastly different, but the more options we have, the better,” she says of her aspirations of a worker-owned and -managed cocktail bar.
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