Barracuda gay bar

Barracuda Lounge, or simply Barracuda, was a gay bar in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Opened in , the bar was known for its nightly drag shows. Barracuda Bar, the longtime lounge, drag show stage and celebrity hot spot, will close permanently on Sunday after nearly 30 years in Chelsea.

New Yorkers are disheartened at the sudden announcement that Barracuda Lounge, a gay bar with the longest-running drag competition in NYC, will close in Chelsea on Sunday, March “Bye, bye Barracuda–the groundbreaking Chelsea gay bar where drag queens were given their own nights well before they got their own TV shows,” Musto said on a Facebook post.

After three decades, Barracuda Lounge, a beloved Chelsea drag bar, is hanging up its heels and closing its curtains on March Home to Star Search, the longest-running drag competition in New York, the bar has become a mainstay for New York queers and a launch pad for up-and-coming drag talent. Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in Donate today.

Barracuda Bar, the longtime lounge, drag show stage and celebrity hot spot, will close permanently on Sunday after nearly 30 years in Chelsea. Instead, it was a living room-like lounge environment pieced together from furniture he and his business partner picked off the street. Barracuda soon became a regular hangout for the Broadway community, with show promoters hosting parties and cast member performances as a way of building buzz for their new musicals, according to a article in the New York Times.

A stage in the bar featured spontaneous renditions of showtunes from patrons and stars, including Nathan Lane, Charo, Betty Buckley and Eartha Kitt. William Mullin, a producer and comedian who moved to New York in , ended up at Barracuda one night in the early aughts when a man at the bar caught his attention. The man, who apparently found Mullin annoying, gave him a wrong number.

But Mullin tracked him down and they went out a few weeks later, ending up back at Barracuda for their first date. But back in the s, there was no other choice but to go out and try to strike up a conversation. Catch up on the most important headlines with a roundup of essential NYC stories, delivered to your inbox daily. By Ryan Kailath.

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