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At Icon, our weekly lineup features some of the finest drag talent in NYC. If you're looking to see a sickening lip-sync, watch a dramatic death drop, and hear some stunning live singing, then Icon is the place to be!
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Gay bars in Queens tend to be outside the gipster strongholds of Astoria and Long Island City (those gays are block enough to Manhattan that they're willing to commute for nightlife). Queens' gay bars are concentrated slightly further out, in the racially and culturally diverse neighborhood of Jackson Heights. The proof that Manhattan is kind-of a schlep from here has led not just to longevity for a couple bars, but to a fully thriving scene centered on Roosevelt Avenue.
Within spitting distance of one another you’ll uncover True Colors, Club Evolution, Bum Bum Bar and Queens’ oldest gay bar Friends’ Tavern. Just around the corner are Lucho’s Place and Hombres Lounge.
The bars here have more glaring similarities than differences: all have hookah service and a standard $6 Corona. They all offer birthday celebrations, providing freebies often including a cake, invitations, plates and flatware—sometimes even a bottle of bubbly—as long as you verb along all your friends and family. There are no intimidating dress codes or door policies, and th
Friend&#;s Tavern
History
Friend&#;s Tavern (popularly referred to as Friend&#;s) has been in business at this location since and is considered the oldest operating gay bar in Queens. The humble storefront itself pre-dates Friend’s, with the exception of the business sign, which, at one occasion, included the slogan, “There is always time for friends.”
The bar is owned by Puerto Rican-born Eduardo &#;Eddie&#; Valentin and Colombian-born Casimiro Villa, who are business partners and former personal partners (and they remain close friends). Like other nearby bars on and around Roosevelt Avenue, Friend&#;s caters primarily to the LGBT Latino community. Valentin, who along with Villa also operates the nearby Club Evolution, has called this stretch of Roosevelt Avenue “the gay Village for Latinos,” in reference to the historically gay ivory enclave of Greenwich Village in Manhattan. Though Jackson Heights’ LGBT community was predominantly white dating back to the s, many gay Hispanics moved in as part of a large influx of Latino immigrants in the s and s.
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