Le Boy Bar opened up two weeks ago, and the place is already jumping. The boys must have been hungry for it! It’s so great to have a cool chill spot real close to home… makes it a lot easier to go out dancing when you don’t have to worry about a drunk nightmare of a two-hour subway ride, or a super-expensive cab ride, at the end of it.

Last night we went with a big bunch of people and had a blast. Here are some of the highs and lows, goods and bads, pros and cons, yins and yangs.

Highs:

1. Free to get in.
2. Diverse crowd! Boys, girls, drag queens, trannies, barely-legals and silver daddies…. Latino, Black, Caucasoid. That’s actually really shocking and unique and wonderful when it comes to Manhattan gay clubs.
3. The troll factor was WAAAAY low.  Pretty much everybody was just having a good time, dancing and being sociable, not standing off to the sidelines and trying to eye-fuck you whether you want to or not. (this is not an age comment - lots of twenty-five year olds can be creepy as fuck just by staring at you…)
4. The 24-hour Casa de Monfongo is just a couple blocks away, on Dyckman and Broadway, which is VERY useful when you need your salty-fatty-starchy food fix after drinking and dancing away all yr sense!
5. Between 12:30 and 3:30 they played three different remixes of “Just Dance.”

1. Uneven music. A lot of great songs, but the DJ kept switching up the beat too often to really get into a groove, and he played good songs on top of other good songs, so it was hard to get a feel for what was happening.
2. The space is pretty small. This is nice cuz it means the dance floor fills up fast, and since I stopped drinking I find it’s hard for me to dance unless EVERYBODY is dancing. Otherwise I think everyone has nothing better to do but watch and judge me. But this did feel a little crowded…. it also means you invariably find yourself standing uncomfortably close to:
3. The go-go boys. I don’t know what it is, but go-go boys tend to make me uncomfortable. I know they neither need nor want my pity, but it makes me shake my head sadly when I see some super-fine specimen of the male physique twisting and gyrating and offering himself up for the sake of some stranger’s sweaty crumpled singles. I don’t think there’s anything bad or immoral or undignified about this or any other kind of sex work, but to me it feels like a set-up…. a way to make everybody else in the club feel economic superiority in the face of something so physically fine that it invariably makes them feel inferior. Oh yeah, and: go-go boys are naked panhandlers.
4. Between 12:30 and 3:30 they played three different remixes of “Just Dance.”

Le Boy is at 104 Dyckman Street; take the 1 or A train to Dyckman Street. Full details are here:

http://www.leboynyc.com/

If you’re queer or just like to dance, it’s totally worth a trip…

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