Metropolitan Bar Guide from Where It’s At Magazine March 6, 1978.
This is just the first page of many. Now you can count the number of NYC gay bars on your fingers.
Those were the days my friends.

*Image thanks to Charles Cosentino and the THEN & NOW: Uncle Charlie Remembers Facebook page.
Love it. I lived at 95 Christopher at the time. Obviously there’s more pages….
I love/hate the designation of one of those bars as “Wrinkle Room” – I’m 71 and I never heard that term before (not a city boy) – but I admit, it did make me chuckle. Those were the days.