Chelsea new york gay
History
Constructed in 1883 when New York’s theater district was centered around 23rd Street, the Victorian Gothic style building was initially one of the city’s first cooperative apartment buildings, but it reopened as a luxury hotel in 1905. With Mark Twain, O. Henry, Oscar Wilde, and Sarah Bernhardt among its earliest guests, the Chelsea quickly acquired a bohemian reputation, which heralded its status in the mid-20th century as Novel York’s hub for the Beat generation. “There was none of the anonymous impersonal hotel ambiance…I kept meeting people I knew from Europe in the halls,” Beat writer William S. Burroughs recalled. Further contributing to its lore, writers Gore Vidal and Jack Kerouac famously checked into the Chelsea for sex in 1953 after a night out at the San Remo Café and Tony Pastor’s Downtown in Greenwich Village. From the 1970s until his ousting in 2007, manager and part-owner Stanley Bard further cultivated the hotel’s reputation by offering inexpensive rent to a variety of eccentrics and occasionally accepting art in lieu of rent.
Throughout its existence as a literary, musical, and artistic enclave, the Chelsea has been residence to many LGB
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Dates and Location
Friday, May 23 through Monday, May 26, 2025
All games at Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers
Festivities initiate Friday night with our welcome party. Round-robin games will take place Saturday morning through Sunday mid-day. Single-elimination playoff games will be Sunday afternoon followed by the Tournament Banquet on Sunday night for all players and registered guests. Division Championships will be held Monday morning with a rink-side champagne brunch. Games are anticipated to be scheduled between 8:30 AM and 8:30 PM and Monday games will likely end by 2:30 PM. Other social events will be planned before and after games and will be announced.
Pricing
$250 - Early Registration by April 1st at 9:00 AM EDT
$275 - Regular Registration between April 1 at 9:01 AM EDT and May 1 at 9:00 AM EDT
$300 - Late Registration after May 1 at 9:01 AM EDT
$75 - Guest Entry to Tournament Banquet before May 22 at 11:59 PM EDT ($85 at check-in)
Player registration includes at least FOUR round-robin games and potential for two more (playoff and championship) games, tournament jersey and t-shirt, entry into all social events including Tournament Banqu
LGBT Chelsea, Then and Now
Led By Laurence Frommer, Conserve Chelsea & MAS Docent
Chelsea is a neighborhood that was strongly associated with gay life in the 1990’s –but was actually quite “gay” for many, many years before that. Many people think that LGBT life emerged in Chelsea in the soon ’90’s, when skyrocketing rents in Greenwich Village pushed the community northward, and the more visibly evident members of the homosexual community – the adolescent, hip, tattooed, gym-toned, “Chelsea Boys” – turned Eighth Ave into America’s “Gay Main Street” for a decade or more.
Read more about Save Chelsea by clicking here.
Location Information
RSVP is required and capacity is limited. Meeting location, finish location, and directions will be provided via email before walk date.
Sunday, May 6, 2018
4:00 PM
2.5 Hours
Borough: Manhattan
Theme: History & Culture
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Gay bar and drag initiating pad Barracuda Lounge to close after three decades in Chelsea
New Yorkers are disheartened at the sudden announcement that Barracuda Lounge, a gay bar with the longest-running drag competition in NYC, will close in Chelsea on Sunday, March 23.
First reported by BroadwayWorld on Monday, the closure comes after alleged damage caused by the demolition function going on at adjacent buildings to make way for a luxury condo project that will form it impossible to manner business as usual, according to owner Bob Pontarelli in a statement on Facebook (which is not currently shareable).
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“In the past few months, a major demolition of the buildings surrounding Barracuda was undertaken,” he wrote. “This included the feature theater that shares our entire East wall and apartments on 23rd lane that share our stage. This demolition is the first step of a huge condo project. The damage from the construction has significantly affected the interior and overall operation of the bar. The next step will be the drilling of the bedrock in order
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