![]() Yes, that bar! I tried to be a waiter there while I was just starting out after college as an artist but they didn’t hire me. This DJ I knew reached out to me on Facebook who played sets at Vig 27. It wasn't a place where people were stuck up. I think that helped that it was not this overwhelming bar. It seems like a nice place for your first bar too, because it's not an overwhelming bar. And so the initial feeling when you are, in a place where you can be yourself and free, it's a mixture of shock and excitement and relief. You're trying to navigate without living your truth, without speaking, without being open and honest. There's something that Oprah said-your entire childhood is a lie. I grew up in Michigan and for all of my life I was hiding everything. Mostly because I was in a gay bar and I wasn't pretending to be straight. It's dark, there was some kind of disco light. There were all these jittery feelings of-this is what it's like to be gay. I remember going inside and it was a lot to take in because I was feeling like, wow, I'm here. I think I was 18 and I didn't have a fake. There's this bar right off of Christopher and Seventh, and it has an upstairs…ĭuplex! That was first gay bar I went to in New York City. ![]() It's so funny to think back on what that was like, and how long ago it was. What was your first time out at a gay bar or queer nightlife space?
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