there have been a few others that came and went, but that was just the cycle of business and life. On christopher street the same basic bars have been there since I came ou in 79. The paranoia of the neighboorhood going to shut down gay bars are just insane. That closeing was about 12 years ago, and yes the police were right that there was drug dealing going on in the bar (you could see it happen in front of you). That bar (gay with a white clientel) was shuttered for drug dealing and prostitution. There was an ancient gay bar on west street down the block (the name escapes me now) that is in an historic building. Not that it matters it was just as much color on color as well as color on white crime. People have been mugged in front of the bar and on that street. How people can see this as racist or the community board going anti-gay is beyond me. I have walked past the front of the bar and have had people ask me if I wanted to buy drugs. This is just a bar in a residential neighboorhood that has a long record of drug dealing and crime that was a dangerous business (as it would have been in ANY neighboorhood).
So either you are a bigot or part of the neighboorhood conspiracy to shut down all the gay bars.
