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New York City, New York
One of NYC's oldest gay bars, site of the 1966 Sip-In, West Village.
Julius' is the oldest continuously operating gay bar in New York City: the building has poured drinks since the 1860s, and the bar has been a gay institution for decades, on a quiet West Village corner at West 10th and Waverly. In April 1966, three Mattachine Society activists staged the 'Sip-In' here, openly declaring they were gay and demanding to be served in a deliberate challenge to the era's ban on serving gay patrons. In December 2022 the city made the bar an official landmark. Inside it's an unfussy old dive: dark wood, decades of photos on the walls, stiff pours, and a griddle turning out the burgers it's long been known for. The crowd runs older and mixed, more about the history and the conversation than the dance floor. For anyone tracing queer New York, it's essential, and it sits a short walk from the Stonewall Inn, making the two an easy pairing on the same night.
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