SAVE THE ALIBI LOUNGE!
It's often said that nightclubs are the queer community's churches — and the need for spaces where queer Black people feel safe has never been more urgent. During Pride month, the Black queer community has had to fight to see Tony McDade and Nina Pope, two Black trans people killed in acts of unadjudicated racist violence, grieved alongside George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Brianna Taylor. The COVID-19 pandemic, which isHarlem's Alibi Lounge is the last Black-owned bar in Manhattan.
"In my humble opinion, there's no other place like Alibi Lounge for the queer community in NYC especially in northern Manhattan and its borders," Minko tells."It's a neighborhood bar where everyone knows your name and that has an identity very much like the community that it serves.
If closed, Alibi would follow in the footsteps of Club Langston, one of Brooklyn's last Black-owned gay bars, which closed its doors last year. In turn, Club Langston repeated the history Black and Latino-centric queer clubs that have closed over the last decade, according to the
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