Well looks like my pays-too-little but easy-going job is crapping out some fringe benefits. A client of ours from New York has asked my employer to fly me down for a little event she's doing.
As someone who's barely been anywhere his whole life, this is wet my pants level exciting.
Now comes the hard part: I have to get my freaking passport. I have six weeks or so. Should be okay, I think. But I'll have to pay extra to get it rushed.
The event is on a Thursday, so I'm going to ask them to book my flight back for Sunday. You know what that means. Party weekend! I'll have to arrange my own accomodations for the weekend, so I'll probably go for a hostel. More money for partying, right?
Anyhoo, if any of my dear readers can recommend some good clubs in the big Apple it'd be greatly appreciated. Requirements:
- House or trance music
- Hot, shirtless, gay men in my age bracket. It doesn't necessarily have to be a gay club. New York's answer to the Comfort Zone would be the bees knees.
- Must be a drug club where drugs are easy to get relatively inexpensively
- Must be after-hours
Have fun, but... BE CAREFUL and not too trusting.
Sounds like fun, Adam.
I'm going in May. My work isn't sending me, though.
Also, have fun in NY, I'm sure it's more fun than TO. I of course know nothing of after hours drug clubs where you can find sexy topless dudes (I should be so lucky) but I do know that the Met is always Pay What You Can, so check that out, for me?
xoxo
Meaghan
i missed it too :-(
First is Splash...50 W. 17th Street. Unassuming on the outside, but hopping on the inside.
There was a bar called XL on 16th street, great bathrooms, but I heard recently they closed down. Not sure.
Another is G Lounge...223 W. 19th St., no dancing, small but a good pickup bar.
There are a number of others, certainly a stop at Stonewall's for the history, again, small, no dancing, or Monsters, across the street, dancing in the basement,mixed but leans toward a slightly older crowd though(my kind of bar). I have been away from the scene there now for a while and a couple good ones I remember, after a search on the net, no longer seem to be there. One note, the later in the evening you go, the more action. But Splash is a must see.
NY is tight on drugs, so without contacts, hard to find. So bring your own and be careful. But meet the right guy and they are available.
Have a GREAT time, and let us know afterwords, all the gory details.
Ken
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Ken
Though for starters, try HX Magazine and Next Magazine, the two most common gay club rags I know of.
Meaghan: I'm not sure how to take that. Since last time Neal saw me I was chubby and wore kakhis and baggy grey t-shirts, I'll take it as a compliment.
Jeff: I KNOW! It's been open for like 12 years and then it closes right before I get to the city!
Ken and atari_age, thanks for the recommendations.
XL- also had a good time here as well.
Passports- yeah think of all my fellow Americans who shit a brick when they find out they have to get a passport to see Niagra Falls now! "But I'm American!" they'll protest. "Tough shit lady- Blame George Bush!" replies the immigration officer. Most Americans have never had a passport in their lives. The rest of the world of course, accepts this as part of being a citizen of the world.