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New York City, New York
Harlem's only gay bar, a cocktail lounge on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd
Alibi Lounge opened in 2016 on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard at 139th Street, the work of founder Alexi Minko — a queer Black immigrant from Gabon and former human-rights attorney who built it as a safe space for Harlem's LGBTQ+ community. It serves a primarily Black and Latino crowd in a neighborhood whose queer history runs back to the drag balls of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, and it became a cause célèbre when supporters rallied to keep it open through the pandemic. The room pairs upscale-lounge touches — a red-carpet entrance, signature cocktails, velvet ropes — with the warmth of a corner bar where regulars fold newcomers in fast. Nights rotate through drag shows, Go-Go Mondays, Caribbean nights, and late weekend sets. For a traveler, it's the reason to point a night uptown instead of defaulting to Hell's Kitchen — there's little else like it above Central Park.
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