New York gay bars and club guide

Big gay bar with a mixed crowd. Many college guys in the weekends. Boiler Room has a jukebox, a pool table and a pinball machine, Daily happy hours.

NYC's Gay Sports Bar. With two levels, pool tables, brick oven pizza, beer on tap, full bar, and tv screens, after work or after the game, it’s the place for sports leagues and fans to meet. Boxers NYC offers the longest running Happy Hour in Chelsea. Beer Pong on Saturdays at 6PM. Come check out our outdoor space, or chill out around the pool table.

Gay bar at 10th Av with weekly different theme nights, drag shows and karaoke nights.

Show bar with Broadway tunes. It boasts a piano bar with open mic every night of the week, an upstairs bar and an intimate off-Broadway cabaret theatre.

Legendary gay venue in the Village. It was the location of the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969, in which hundreds of gays, lesbians and transgender people and their supporters for the first time finally fought back against the unwarranted and often violent police raids.

Nowadays, Stonewall remains a favorite drinking and party spot, featuring a smoky bar and an upstairs dance floor.

Ty's Bar is a centrally located in the heart of the West Village. This gay bar attracts an eclectic crowd and offers a variety of drink specials. Happy hour is available throughout the week.

Small and cheap neighborhood bar, with Broadway tunes and a gay / straight mixed crowd.  Live sing-a-long show tune piano bar.

Bar and small dance club in Hell's Kitchen, with sailor decorated theme downstairs with a rather young and mixed crowd dancing on tunes from house to hip hop, and a more relaxed atmosphere at the bar on the second floor.

Fire Island is a thin 32 mile long sandbar south of Long Island (separating the Great South Bay from the Atlantic Ocean) and only one hour or 50 miles east of New York City with pristine ocean shores. In summers it is very popular with gay men from NYC. The gay beach is called "The Pines" and the lesbian gay beach that is next to it is called "Cherry Grove". Between them is a small pine forest area called "The Meat Rack" that you can have some fun anytime day or night. It's  open in summer only.

Travel directions are complicated and difficult to find. Need to take the train to Summerville not he Long Island Railway http://lirr42.mta.info/ (get on in the first train car to be the first to get to the shuttle) and take a shuttle ferry to the Pines http://www.sayvilleferry.com/ . The travel time from Penn station to the Pines is about 2 to 2½ hours long.