Mineshaft gay club

I went, and it felt like a time capsule.

It was an underground space, a beer cellar. I heard, "It's for the older crowd. I heard of Julius. I also like Uncle Charlie's.

The Anvil New York : This week Mike tells us about the gay corners of NYC in the 70s and 80s, inparticular his experience with the infamous "Mineshaft Club"

Here's our chat:. The location was so great--Mapplethorpe, Warhol and Lou Reed were all there in the late '60s. Bars, Clubs & Restaurants overview From untila number of gay leather bars and sex clubs operated in this former market building in the Meatpacking District.

To learn more about the places we miss, I turned to Kyle Supley and Michael Ryanwho specialize in documenting the formative days of bar hopping. Wallace noted that the club gained notoriety from the controversial and oh-so-hot s gay slasher film Cruising.

It's more of a walking conversation than a tour. Whitman has an unfinished poem called "The Two Vaults" about the bohemians in the place. The ones that really surprise people are the most historic ones—like the Vault at Pfaff, where Walt Whitman went.

Michael: It's a nail salon space now.

Mineshaft gay club Wikipedia :

And we try and have a guest speaker to talk from a first hand account. Word spread that if you want to experience what the community was like, go there. Michael: It was a bohemian bar, so we don't have the language to put it in "gay bar" explicitly.

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. 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.

There will always be gay bars, but will they be as vivid, sexy, and subversive as the haunts of yore? I love older spaces and things from a different time. But when the local press talked about the bar, it was in the salacious category of bars.

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.

We try to cover different types of places--gay dance clubs, leather scene, piano bars, Rose's Turn, the old Duplex space. 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 A adult film, New York City Inferno, was also recorded in the club.

Julius in the Village is the oldest place, right? Kyle: I moved to New York in ' I wasn't going to bars right away. Michael: The point of the walk is to share memories.