In the latest AreUComing, unhappyfem finally made it to that new gay megaclub, the Q: “I was surprised to hear about so many Brooklyn gay boys traveling to Hell’s Kitchen for the Q who would never go to the neighborhood’s other staples”
Welcome to the Qlub. Photo: Courtesy of Brock Colyar Well, along came Labor Day, and suddenly — and I don’t know about you — partygoing had started to feel … laborious. We keep going out anyway, of course, because God forbid we feel like we’re missing out on something, but nothing hits like it did back in June, when the whole summer was ahead of us and our energy reserves were still at 100 percent after our winter hibernation.
11:30 p.m. | The second floor is also a narrow lounge with a bar, but this one features a few go-go boys and walls painted with Tom of Finland characters and ACT UP protest slogans and is located next to the darkroom , via a speakeasy-style passage through a hidden door in the leather wall. A cringey remix of Alanis Morisette’s “You Oughta Know” comes on and everyone starts singing along, including a herd of shirtless boys riding a carousel pony in the corner of the room.
Partygoers dance on the third floor. Photo: Courtesy of Brock Colyar 1:15 a.m. | Shivering a bit and obviously self-conscious standing mostly naked with the also-mostly-naked boy I’d talked into showing me around here after having gone to dinner with him… yesterday, I decide to mingle with the people who look the most out of place: The Women. “My friends, who are as gay as can be, brought me here,” says one, a 20-something hetero girl in blue jean shorts near the second floor bar.
2:10 a.m. | On the second floor, I spot someone else sitting alone, a soft-bodied shirtless boy from Astoria, still in his blue jeans, which he says he’s too overstimulated to take off. After all, he just came out a few weeks ago, and this is the first gay bar he has ever been to. “My friend went to the restroom, but I think he found something else,” he says, dejectedly.
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