Just down the street from Alibi a quick, five-minute walk so close that hopping in a car would feel like a waste of gas is Lambda Lounge, the neighborhood’s only other Black-owned gay bar. So far, that crowdfunding campaign has raised over $119k. At places like Alibi, they can feel at home. In order to keep from permanently closing, Minko set up a GoFundMe. The 10 finest gay bars in Brooklyn Butters Gay Prevent Butters Gay Bar New York City black gay bars and clubs of the past and also present A Lot Of Seen Gay Bars in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Gay Parties as well as Occasions in New York Discover New York City’s Leading 5 Gay Areas To Stay In Gay Brooklyn Traveling Guide sugar land gay. Thankfully, that support has circled back to Minko and the Alibi Lounge. Mon Fri 4-9PM and Sat & Sun 1-9PM, it’s the perfect spot to hang with your friends, day or night. Offering a food menu and NYC’s Longest-Running 2 for 1 Happy Hour.
You can be an entrepreneur, you can be gay and you can be black.” After work or after the game, Boxers NYC is the place for gay sports leagues and fans to meet. In Chicago, the pandemic is threatening to shut down what might be the country’s oldest Black-owned gay bar. I wish there were more Black, LGBT-owned establishments… I wish that people of color that it’s possible to open a business, to be an entrepreneur, and to ally your sexual orientation and your color. In addition to Lambda Lounge and Alibi Lounge in New York, at least three others Jeffery Pub in Chicago, Metro 2.0 in Jackson, Mississippi, and Jocks PHL in Philadelphia are still in business. “But I think it’s sad that I’m the only one who is in the position of doing the work. “I’m proud that I was able to keep the doors open every single night for the past four years, despite the challenges and hardships,” Minko told Time Out.
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That’s thanks to his personal and professional mission to support the surrounding Black LGBTQ clientele. REBAR, a new gay bar which took over the space formerly occupied by G Lounge in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood, has been accused of having a racist door policy. Despite all of that pain and struggle, Minko, who’s originally from Gabon, Africa (the same country that just pushed for the end of its gay sex ban), says there’s a strong push to keep the business going.