MALE BURLESK, TIMES SQUARE NYC 1980
Gaiety Theatre (male burlesque) "Gaiety" and phone number, scribbled on torn paper found in East Village apartment The Gaiety Theatre was a gay male burlesque theater in Times Square, New York City, for almost 30 years until it closed on March 17, The Book of Lamentations: a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct - I used to visit the Gaiety back in the 80s every time I came to New York on business.
The Club
To those who still reminiscence of the hedonistic sex-saturated Times Square of the late ’s, specifically the one iconic establishment that stayed in the business of legitimate homosexual entertainment well into the fascist Guilliani era, the Gaiety Male Burlesque Theater, run by an old-school, law and order, profit minded Greek divorcee. The name on the awning over the entrance was Gaiety Theatre, but it was also called the Gaiety Male Burlesque or the Gaiety Male Theatre in advertisements. The Gaiety opened in late and closed in and was owned by Denise Rozis, run by both her and her younger sister, Evridiki Rozis.
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York
The sign, so modest that the letter G must stand in for the word gay, is a fitting symbol of a year-old salute to immodesty, the city's last surviving all-male burlesque house and the only remaining strip theater where performers danced completely nude. Pretty sure this is the same Gaiety Theatre. Babe Ruth throwing his candy bars from the marquee. Gaiety Burlesk in New York, NY
Gaiety Theater, New York City's last surviving all-male burlesque house and only remaining strip theater where performers danced completely nude, is evicted from its building on West 46th Street. The name on the awning over the entrance was Gaiety Theatre, but it was also called the Gaiety Male Burlesque or the Gaiety Male Theatre in advertisements. The Gaiety opened in late and closed in and was owned by Denise Rozis, run by both her and her younger sister, Evridiki Rozis. 
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The Gaiety Theatre was a gay male burlesque theater in Times Square, New York City, for almost 30 years until it closed on March 17, The name on the awning over the entrance was Gaiety Theatre, but it was also called the Gaiety Male Burlesque or the Gaiety Male Theatre in advertisements. It was formerly known as the Orpheum Dance Palace and had a prime location on the second floor of a building on the northwest corner of Broadway and W. The main entrance was on W.
Gaiety Theatre (male burlesque)
The Gaiety Theatre was a gay male burlesque theater in Times Square, New York City, for almost 30 years until it closed on March 17, The name on the awning over the entrance was Gaiety Theatre, but it was also called the Gaiety Male Burlesque or the Gaiety Male Theatre in advertisements. It was located at W 46th Street, New York, NY , on the second floor of the building that. . About
10 likes, 0 comments - oldgayads on July 11, "Ad for the legendary New York City strip club/gay burlesque (or in this case, 'Male Burlesk') The Gaiety. Located above the Howard Johnson's in Times Square, The Gaiety was in business for 30 years, from , run by sisters Denise and Evridiki Rozis. One of the few adult venues in the area to survive Rudy Giuliani's crackdown in the mid. . Quietly, a Bawdy Gay Beacon Goes Dark
In the early s New York was brimming with male strip clubs known as "burlesque theaters." Maricevic managed the remarkable feat of gaining access to many of these venues for the purpose of taking photographs. The works presented here are a testimonial to a culture, a time, a place, all now lost but for this collection of poignant images. .