Gay movie theater nyc
overview
Opened in 1920, the Times Square Theater staged a number of productions involving major LGBT performers and creators, including Katharine Cornell, Tallulah Bankhead, Laurence Olivier, and Noel Coward, among others.
Operating relatively briefly as a legitimate theater, the venue became a movie theater in 1933 and the interior was demolished in 1996.
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Credit: Christopher D. Brazee/NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, 2022.
Katharine Cornell in A Bill of Divorcement, 1921. Photo by Ivory Studio. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York.
The Exciters poster, 1922. Source: tallulahbankhead.weebly.com.
Beatrice Lillie in Andre Charlot's Revue of 1924. Photo by White Studio. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of Modern York.
Laurence Olivier and Noel Coward in Private Lives, 1930. Source: www.thestage.co.uk.
Tallulah Bankhead and Ilka Follow in Forsaking All Others, 1933. Photo by Vandamm. Courtesy of the Museum of the Urban area of New York.
Apollo and Times Square Theaters. Photo by Wurts Bros, 1921. Courtesy of The New York Widespread Library.
The Times Square Theater
The Fair Theater in NYC
Went last week from Boston.
Amazing, but sleazy place.
Lots of transvestites which I'm not into, but would proceed again.
Truly a vestige of a bygone era. Kind of sorrowful, both the place and the people.
Not everyone is there for sex, it seems. Some just seem to know each other and socialize in the lounge area. Kind of a uneven, older crowd with a sprinkling of young guys.
Open until 3 am on weekends. I ponder midnight otherwise. Opens just before noon?
A small bathroom was obscure and had guys playing around, plus lots of pornoi booths for free once you've paid your $15 admission. A couple of areas with small screens with small seating area, including one with a play area.
The tv lounge was playing an old PBS Peter Citera (sp?) and Any Grant concert. Some guys were watching and relaxing. The big theatre was exhibiting live boxing, I think, but few sit or roam there.
At one point, some young warm guy was getting a bj, though. And I blew the same minority twice in the front row over a limited hours. .Some people play in the small balcony where smoking is permitted.
Lots of minorities. No females, apparently, during my go to on a busy Saturday night.
Area seems sa
Bijou Cinema
Opened in the early-1910’s as the Lyric Theatre. By 1910 it had been renamed Comet Theatre. In the the 1930’s it was presenting exist plays. In the 1960’s it was turned into the Jewel Theatre which played all male films when they left the Adonis Theatre on 8th Avenue. In the 1980’s it was re-named the Bijou Cinema and continued to play gay male XXX films. In 1988 the city closed it down.
It was remodeled and re-named the Cinema Village Third Avenue with the revival format moving here when the owner of the Cinema Village tried to make that an X house (with the name Cinema 12). That lasted less than three months and the imaginative Cinema Village returned with independant films for a short time using the Cinema 12 name and then Cinema Village.
This theatre then changed it’s call back to the Bijou Cinema and switched to a first run format opening with “War of the Roses”. By 1992 with all the match from the new Loews Village and Village East, the theatre quietly went back to gay male adult films, and closed around 2002. The building was gutted to its brick walls in June 2005 and converted into office space. By 2017 it ha
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