NYC Gay Bar Threatened

There is racism in the gay community against black and latino gays. I have been subjected to it for years. White gays hate us just like white straights. I keep telling my gay black and latino brothers use your money if your lucky to have a job to organize and do for self start your own business or products and bars. Our black nationalist brothers are right do for self and stop asking the white man for shit!!!!

We all know the white queens get a free pass to do whatever they want to do, but black and latino gays are always the ones who get the brute force of the law. Yes, it is racism. White gays = acceptable. Black gays = unacceptable. It's been that way forever, and it isn't going to change. Drug charges are just a cheap decoy to distract from the fact that the city does not want gays of color in their vicinity.

WAKE UP!!!!! It is racism! AND the racism may be a means of also carrying out their homophobia as well. I was just in the East Village last night and the same drug dealer who apporaches me EVERYTIME I'm on 2nd Avenue came up to me offering to sell me drugs AGAIN! He even caught an attitude with me when I turned him down AGAIN, because I was so fed up that when he approached me, my reply was, "I didn't ask!". When is this guy going to finally get arrested? When are the cops going to patrol the streets, and stop him at long last? When are the cops going to see how the patrons and staff and stepping in the bathroom 3 or more at a time, not even long enough ot screw, but long enough to make a drug transaction and/or take a hit of something? Anyone who can't see the possiblities of racism and/or homophobia being the case is either in EXTREME denial, OR you're a customer of some dealer who deals in a bar/club that has paid off the NYPD to turn a blind eye.

This is NOT racism or homophobia. God you people will cry foul at the drop of a dime. The precinct that controls that area is located a couple of blocks from this place and almost ALL the officers in it are LGBT. Also many clubs/bars that were mainly white establishments have closed due to drugs and other criminal activity. I can probably name 4 off hand. So take all of your excuses and shove it! You dumb queens can't take responsibilty.

Government and its stupid fetish with the drug war. For those of you who do not like the drugs stay out of places that have them. It should be up to the owner if he wants drugs or not on the premises. What you ingest, snort, smoke into your body is your business.

Also let me remind everyone that Christopher Street is a hugely gay area! Homophobia? Really? Stop dealing drugs and prostituting yourself!

Having visited this areas many times I actually agree with closing the bar down. There are dealers in front of the bar openly dealing drugs and there are also a number of transsexual prostitutes who roam the area who yes happen to be black.

This sounds like a really frightening place. How tragic that some Black criminals (drug dealers and pimps) operate behind a facade of race and destroy so many African-American businesses. When the police try to enforce the law "racism"s the first thing they yell.

Maybe it is a little of both concerns that are driving this issue; i.e. race and drug concerns. Maybe Chi Chiz needs to do a better job of keeping the drugs out of their establishment. But also, NYC needs to be making sure that its processes to keep dangerous entities out of their community are not being used by others to further their own discriminatory agenda. Let's hope that both things happen in this case and we don't lose a place for our Black men in NYC. I'm just hoping that it becomes a safer space in the process without the drugs. Our community needs to do a better job of addressing the problems of drug, alcohol, and sex addiction. We need more safe spaces that don't amplify those three concerns.

This does sound like racial discrimination against black lgbt clubs.