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Web Site Tour Gay Bar Stories Master Bar Lists Bar Count by Year Photos & Maps Heard of These Bars? Bar Questionnaire 
Bar Trivia Quiz Discussion Forum Who We Are How You Can Help How to Contact Us A Word of Thanks 
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Welcome to our web site. Do you remember your first
Buffalo gay bar? How about the bar where you met your first boyfriend?
Or the bar that launched your drag career? Which gay bar was your all-time favorite? We're inviting you to share those wonderful bar memories with the Buffalo GLBT community. The Men's Bar History Project has identified over 110 gay bars since 1930. That's the year Galante's speakeasy opened behind City Hall and became Buffalo's very first gay bar. Since that time there has been an unbroken string of bars welcoming gay men to Buffalo. For several years in the late 1950s, more than 16 men's bars were open for business simultaneously. That surely was a wild time in the old town. The year 2009 marks the 79th Anniversary of Buffalo's Gay Bars. Now that we know the bar names, we need your help in discovering more. What were those gay bars like? How fabulous were the drag queens? How hot were the bartenders? What songs were the rage? How good was the cruising? Anything you can recall about the old bars will be helpful to us. Our web site offers an easy on-line Questionnaire that you can use to send us your bar recollections. It's mostly checkboxes and takes less than 5 minutes to complete. We also have an on-line Discussion Forum where you can read other people's comments about the old bars and add your own comments. The Forum includes gay breakfast places after the bars and gay cruise spots around town where guys hooked up. We also have an e-mail address and a US Post Office box for you to contact us. Start with the Web Site Tour to explore the history of Buffalo's men's bars and to learn more about how you can aid our project. If we omitted any bars or if our information is inaccurate, kindly let us know. Thanks for visiting our site. |
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