Saturdays at Santos Party House 96 Lafayette St. Legendary drag queen Sophia Lamar hosts pictures taken (in the MisShapes tradition) and posted online weekly. Polysexual skinny-hipster party Fridays at the Annex, 152 Orchard St. Gays Gone Wild–style new Saturday-night party co-hosted by Josh Wood and longtime bad boy Jonny McGovern. Next party: Friday, June 26, at Wall Street Bath & Spa, 88 Fulton St., nr. Wildly popular monthly late-night party at a financial-district spa with pool, sauna, steam room, open bar, D.J.’s, performances. Even Staten Island’s getting its first gay bar in years! There are venues for Chelsea muscle boys, Billyburg alterna-queers, hyperlipsticked lesbians - and a good handful of spots where those types and more crawl all over each other.
Forty years after the uprising at the Village’s Stonewall gay bar thatsparked the modern gay-rights movement, New York’s LGBT nightlife isfairly robust - still anchored in downtown Manhattan, but with animpressive array of options in the other boroughs.
