Urban Contemporary Gay Art
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Rawhide Manhattan Chelsea NYC Gay Bar Poster 16" x 20"
Circa 1980 :Artist unknown. Other Rawhide poster artists were Rex, Tom of Finland.
Beloved gay bar The Rawhide has been around for close to 35 years, sitting unassumingly on Eighth Avenue since 1979. In that time, it's been touted as "neighborhood friendly" and given the "NYC Landmark Award" from Odyssey magazine. Importantly, though, it hasn't been landmarked by the city, leading to this: Jeremiah Moss reports that the bar has been evicted by its building's new owners, who are hiking the rent from $15,000 to $27,000 a month. It will close on March 31, 2013.
The bar invited patrons to visit for the final night on "March 30, Holy Saturday," and its staff remarked on Facebook, "Remember one door closes and another one opens....We will let you know where and when in NYC." Rawhide will also raffle off a motorcycle that hangs from the ceiling over a pool table at the closing night event.
(shown for reference, not for sale)
Known as the oldest levis-and-leather bar in the city, the "neighborhood friendly" Rawhide smells of beer and motor oil, or maybe it just seems to smell like beer and motor oil, because it should. An old motorcycle hangs from chains over a red-felt pool table, a grimy baby doll strapped to its muffler. The ceiling is painted black, pockmarked by industrial staples still gripping gray fluff that once belonged to Halloween cobwebs.
The walls (also painted black) are decorated with Herb Ritts posters of muscle models, Mr. International Leather 1990, and Tom of Finland poses--everywhere Tom of Finland--pressed into the black walls so they look somehow melded there.
Owner Jay Goudgeon told the blog that Rawhide first opened long before
Chelsea became a popular gay nightlife district.
He said neighbors
responded by throwing bricks at the windows – only to be hit with eggs
by bar patrons who fought back.
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