You Could Be in a Gay Bar Right Now and Not Even Know It

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By: Brian Sloan

A lesbian bar from the 1920s. A “fairy den” from the 1890s. An Ecstasy-fueled disco from the 1990s. Celebrating the hidden places in Manhattan where gay night life once flourished.

Eve Addams Tea Room — Visitors gathered outside the site of the Eve Addam’s Tearoom, a lesbian hangout in the 1920s.

NYT Gay Bar Was Here — The Gay Bars That Are Gone tour paid homage to the Palladium near Union Square, a former club that is now a dormitory. *Credit Amy Lombard for The New York Times*

“Amanda Davis, a historian for the NYC L.G.B.T. Historic Sites Project, offered a history lesson in front of the former Eve Addams’ Tea Room (129 MacDougal Street), a lesbian hot spot from the mid-1920s run by a Polish-Jewish émigré named Eva Kotchever. A sign on the door, she said, once warned: ‘Men are admitted, but not welcome.'”

To read the full article on the “Gay Bars That Are Gone” Jane’s Walk in the New York Times, click here.