Mastodawn

#LGBTQ+ #bars are #closing across the country. But in #NYC, they are #thriving.

“I felt #tingly inside,” said #NikkeAlleyne, now the #coowner of #TheBush, a new #lesbian #bar that opened in #Brooklyn in late April. “I felt so #safe and so #seen.”

Thanks to local wealth and global tourism, bars serving the LGBTQ+ community in New York City have increased in number since 2019.

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