Albany gay bars
PRIVATE MENS MEMBERSHIP CLUB
Everything the discerning male needs to relax and build his body
Rates & Specials
WEIGHT TRAINING
Fully equipped gymnasium.
BATH & SAUNA
Sauna, jacuzzi, steam room, and shower room.
PRIVATE ROOMS
Private rooms for VIP members
Waterworks Pub is Albany&#;s premier LGBTQ+ Pub and Night club.
Located at the begin of Albany&#;s homosexual village, Waterworks is the oldest gay-oriented LGBTQ+ community block in Albany where our motto is Unity. Established in , Waterworks is located in a historic multi-level building that enables us to offer something for everyone.
The Pub, located on the first floor applications a hometown corner Gay Bar atmosphere with a pool table, dart board, Juke Box, diet counter with lite bar faire, 10 flat screen televisions, and a professional sound system, twirl area and stage.
The Club, located on the second floor with a separate bar & smoking patio, is one of the hottest Nightclubs and busiest Nightlife dance clubs in town.
Featuring Albany Hottest DJs spinning the latest Remixes and pumping out more than 15, watts of pure energy from our high-quality professional 3-way sound system, along with an incredible light show including our professional laser system, Waterworks Club offers an trial rarely found in upstate New York.
Albany Pride and Liberte join forces to launch region’s first same-sex attracted bar
Liberte is set to uncover its doors on the last Friday of every month as Albany’s first gay bar, providing a safe space for the LGBTQI+ community and their allies to let their hair down and meet new people.
The accepted Stirling Terrace venue is joining forces with Albany Pride to evolve the club’s monthly social gatherings into an official lgbtq+ bar — understood to be the first of its gentle in regional WA.
Albany Self-acceptance president Annie Arnold said after hosting a social gathering almost every Friday for the last two years, the club was excited to have a place to call its own.
“We always used to come to Liberte because they were the first local business in Albany that supported Albany Pride and they have always been our biggest ally in terms of a local business,” she said.
“But when COVID struck we weren’t able to meet here without knowing exactly how many people were coming so we had to go to another pub, which nobody felt as comfortable at.
“We ended up trialling coming back here and it has been a big triumph
Even after the first years following Stonewall, Albany&#;s queer subculture was still distinctly closeted. Chapters of Lgbtq+ Liberation Front (GLF), Male lover Activists Alliance (GAA), and Gay Maoists had started up on campus my freshman year, where a few men were out, but most, like I, were closeted
When I first walked into G.J.’s Gallery, a neighborhood bar in Albany, NY, I establish myself in the bohemian underworld I had longed for. Dark, smoky, Rolling Stones on the jukebox, a long bar stretched from the front door halfway through the room—opposite were booths, and the smell of Mary Jane mixed with cigarette smoke lingered above.
I became familiar with the bar’s clientele: writers and painters from the neighborhood, some drug pushers, some gay men, and occasional college students like me, who could frequent bars when Unused York state&#;s legal drinking age was eighteen. The crowd was almost exclusively men, some smoking joints in the bathroom, as dealers peddled acid, speed, Quaaludes, and grass.
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