tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post5314193240691016700..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: Rawhide GoodbyeJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-61655755055025278762013-04-26T12:35:23.737-04:002013-04-26T12:35:23.737-04:00Sad but true. Cultural reform to accommodate marr...Sad but true. Cultural reform to accommodate marriage law is going to far. Uptown leather boys, with money to invest are Not investing in the downtown scene anymore. It's a national, disneyfied lgbt community.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00138181319083877779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-7130375700480375102013-04-26T12:29:45.661-04:002013-04-26T12:29:45.661-04:00MARRIAGE LAW WAS REFORMED, NOW THE PUSH IS TO REFO...MARRIAGE LAW WAS REFORMED, NOW THE PUSH IS TO REFORM GAY MALE CULTURE. Quinn and legal reform, Ellen & cultural reform. Not only in NYC, but nationwide.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00138181319083877779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-40129497602320819192013-04-11T21:23:52.938-04:002013-04-11T21:23:52.938-04:00Look at the Realtor's listing: at the bottom t...Look at the Realtor's listing: at the bottom they seem to be using these neighbors as a selling point "16 Handles, Starbucks, Boston Market, The Gap, Rite Aid, American Apparel" looks like the corporate chain stores are the only viable option here in the New NYC. It's so boring and sanitized, I could cry. I am seriously thinking of moving out of here as it is too sad to watch this city sell out.Sinestranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-32628783972181260052013-04-10T01:24:49.952-04:002013-04-10T01:24:49.952-04:00Like female Anonymous above, I'm sad to see Ra...Like female Anonymous above, I'm sad to see Rawhide go. Not because I have any personal experience of a Rawhide. (My own life has been -- mostly but not all -- pretty tame. By maybe the "but not all" is key here. I am content with my "tame" because there's a little "not all" there?)<br /><br />I remember an intense, intimate conversation with two friends maybe some 15 years ago, a gay couple, devoted and intertwined in every way with each other (like buying a house together). One would like to marry, the other, no way. They talked it through in front of me, with me. I often think about that conversation, because since them one has died, the other moved far away, and I just miss them, each of them and the two of them together. But also because, these days, I value the insight they gave me. Marriage equality, yes, of course. But it's more complicated. Space needed, too, for alternatives, for imaginings. The many spaces needed.<br /><br />How did NY of all places start losing the space for these conversations? mchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-33397859317536745362013-04-09T17:20:58.898-04:002013-04-09T17:20:58.898-04:00Interesting choice of reopening locale:
http://ww...Interesting choice of reopening locale:<br /><br />http://www.towleroad.com/2013/04/chelseas-rawhide-bar-to-reopen-on-upper-east-side.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-90489686046423425942013-04-09T13:05:11.490-04:002013-04-09T13:05:11.490-04:00I was the "special kind of fag hag" that...I was the "special kind of fag hag" that went to Rawhide. <br /><br />Change is inevitable, but yet we don't have to wipe out uniqueness for the sake of change. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-57216861465822499412013-04-08T16:25:29.214-04:002013-04-08T16:25:29.214-04:00I'm female, straight and don't live near R...I'm female, straight and don't live near Rawhide and still, I'm sad to see it go. <br /><br />Such places are what made NY the roiling, energetic, creative, non-Kansas place it used to be.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-58362779293874599252013-04-08T11:35:38.284-04:002013-04-08T11:35:38.284-04:00We just watch slowly as NYC dies. I believe we'...We just watch slowly as NYC dies. I believe we've all given up hope of ever stopping this. No reason to even think of ways to fight it. Just more reasons I'm happy to have moved to Brooklyn where at least we hold onto some of what used to make Manhattan unique (small coffee shops, small mom n pop shops etc.). Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01167066332700241789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-89391594937248385292013-04-08T08:08:11.146-04:002013-04-08T08:08:11.146-04:00So, so sad....So, so sad....Thom Simmonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16171033101065452427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-16433051759402617972013-04-08T08:00:14.135-04:002013-04-08T08:00:14.135-04:00This does break my heart. Goodbye NYC that I used ...This does break my heart. Goodbye NYC that I used to know. :( Please say Thank You to Timmy for the video. It was nice to see some people I know and be able to hear Miguel's voice once again. Funny that a Guy from Western Mass knows so many people there. Tell you just how wonderful and neighborly Rawhide was.<br /><br />Yuppershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16825628813872346135noreply@blogger.com