Man the lower west side by the river to the west of Sheridan square down to the meat packing area ..lol
The Glory Hole
The Mine Shaft
The Wrangler
Rawhide
Badlands
The Tool Box
Id go to mcnultys for beans on Christopher from my Nassau street digs
Prolly 25 leather bars wide open with ten blocks
Guys walking around in leather with harry reems mustaches in the open....chaos and no pants
Only other places I saw that degenerate were the Quarter and Castro....I grew up fairly near NOLA but it was more queenie
Then gay mans skin lesion disease as it was known hit around 1984-85 and it got quiet real quick
All the twinks took on a walking dead look
Nearly all the queers I knew from the 70s and 80s died from the ninja
I know of one still alive
He got on meds early by 91
Despite all the talk otherwise who really wants to be queer ...it’s a siren call they follow straight to pain and despair eventually
I’ve known a homosexual man who was neurotic
That areas was INSANE in the late 80s and early 90s!!!
Transsexual/vestite/gender hookers everywhere! lol
A few REAL women hookers too.
42 street was PACKED with hookers before Rudy.
And I saw one too many leather outfits on guys at clubs like LimeLight!! I almost went blind.