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Even Emmy-award winning actor Peter Dinklage has a scar to remember (from his neck to his eye-brow to be exact) after getting kneed in the temple while rocking a bit too hard on stage with his former band, “Whizzy,” which ironically became good practice for his future on Game of Thrones. It also helped make Christopher Street the social and cultural center of New York’s LGBT community. HARDWARE features some of the best DJ’s in NYC and entertaining drag queens, both local and guests. Clubs like Studio 54, Hurrah and Ice Palace 57 dominated the scene of the late ’60s and through the ’70s, when self-exploration was welcome under the fragmented light of a disco ball. But CBGB’s was not for the faint of heart, fights and substance-fueled violence were a regular occurrence, including Dee-Dee Ramone who reportedly had frequent jealous battles with his groupie girlfriend (picture broken beer bottle threats and smashed windshields). Gay-owned & managed bar & lounge in Hell’s Kitchen. See more gay clubs & bars in New York City on Tripadvisor. Patti Smith, The Ramones, The Talking Heads, and dozens of other avant-garde, head-smashing and crowd-punching punk acts made this club - which closed in the mid-aughts after giving The Strokes one of their biggest boosts. These places are best for gay clubs & bars in New York City: The Stonewall Inn.
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Some are porn stars, and sex workers, and some end up winning a Tony for writing the book for Avenue Q. The brick Bowery building where the neat and orderly John Varvatos store currently resides, used to be CBGB, the grimy, smelly, sweaty, occasionally puke-covered epicenter of underground rock. Go-go boys in gay clubs are a fantasy of and in flesh.