Mineshaft gay club

It's more of a walking conversation than a tour. That's an interesting thing about the tourists—you're hearing these great stories. The location was so great--Mapplethorpe, Warhol and Lou Reed were all there in the late '60s. Whitman has an unfinished poem called "The Two Vaults" about the bohemians in the place.

Kyle: I moved to New York in ' I wasn't going to bars right away. There will always be gay bars, but will they be as vivid, sexy, and subversive as the haunts of yore? The Mineshaft is probably the most legendary and 'infamous' gay crusing bar: after more than 30 years from its closing, the Mineshaft legend is still alive!.

To learn more about the places we miss, I turned to Kyle Supley and Michael Ryanwho specialize in documenting the formative club of bar hopping. We try to cover different types of places--gay dance clubs, leather scene, piano bars, Rose's Turn, the old Duplex space.

I went, and it felt like a time capsule. Julius in the Village is the oldest place, right? Michael: It's a nail salon space now. But when the local press talked about the bar, it was in the salacious category of bars. I heard, "It's for the older crowd.

It was an underground space, a beer cellar. Image: Shutterstock Before the Mineshaft epidemic emerged in the ’s, gay nightlife in New York City was beyond iconic. Michael: The point of the walk is to share memories. Bars, Clubs & Restaurants overview From untila number of gay leather bars and sex clubs operated in this former market building in the Meatpacking District.

Kyle: My favorite is probably the Ninth Circle a fab West 10 th Street steakhouse-turned-gay-bar full of leather clones, twinks, hustlers, and celebrity drop-ins, all either cruising, playing pool, doing drugs, or rubbing against each other. Wallace noted that the club gained notoriety from the controversial and oh-so-hot s gay slasher film Cruising.

I think there's a resurgence to build relationships with people who were there at the time or with younger people who share an interest in that time. I heard of Julius. Michael: It was a bohemian bar, so we don't have the language to put it in "gay bar" explicitly.

I love older spaces and things from a different time. The most legendary was the Mineshaft, a popular sex club that opened in and became one of the most famous such spaces in the world, but was forced to close in Gay adult film, New York City Inferno, was also recorded in the club.

And we try and have a guest speaker to talk from a first hand account. Here's our chat:. The ones that really surprise people are the most historic ones—like the Vault at Pfaff, where Walt Whitman went. Word spread that if you want to experience what the community was like, go there.

I also like Uncle Charlie's. Unfortunately, much of this changed when the onset of the HIV epidemic led to widespread gentrification throughout the city, including the closure of the legendary, Mafia-owner gay leather bar, the Mineshaft. It's now a Samsung store.

The Mineshaft was a members-only BDSM leather bar and sex club for gay men located at Washington Street, at Little West 12th Street, in Manhattan, New York City, in the Meatpacking District, West Village, and Greenwich Village sections.