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Everything Felt Cursed After Carrie Nation Closed
The most Brooklyn thing I ever said, I said at Carrie Nation, a gay bar on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope named after the famous Prohibitionist who carried an axe to chop open barrels of alcohol. It was a classic Brooklyn cash-only bar.
One evening, a new guy was complaining adv about how they didn&#;t take cards, waving a Visa around and saying he&#;d buy everyone a drink if they would just charge him. No one was looking at him; everyone was just waiting for him to shut up and go down the street to the ATM. Finally he said, to the bartender but also to the silent room, &#;Come on, how about you guys give the new guy a welcome?&#;
&#;We just did,&#; I said. The rest of the room snickered.
He left and we never saw him again.
Before I first walked into Carrie, I usually endured gay bars. When I first came out, going to one was like a kind of torture; nights spent acting casual as the anticipation of meeting someone rose and then often fell. I might verb with friends or see friends when I showed up, but they were usually trying t
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Longtime Fifth Avenue gay bar Excelsior will celebrate one last Pride Month before closing its doors this summer, the business announced this week.
Owners Richard Kennedy and Mark Nayden posted a letter on the bar's Facebook page Monday announcing that July 31 will be the bar's last night open after 20 years in the neighborhood. The owners said that rising costs, which include been the reason for many Park Slope businesses closing recently, led to the decision.
“More than ever, rising costs, like rent and taxes, generate your neighborhood bars and restaurants effort every day,” the post. “Twenty years of serving this community is something we are haughty of, and in this World Pride Month we arrange on celebrating each and every noun. We hope you will join us and show your pride.”
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Kennedy and Nayden went on to thank their customers, patrons, friends, family, the industry, performers who had been featured at the bar and both their current and former staff.
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History
Born in Listowel, Ireland, Rena Blake (b. ) immigrated to the United States in with her then-husband. Living and working in the Bronx as a nanny during her first years in New York, she was heavily involved with the Irish community, though purely socially. It was not until the advocacy efforts of the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization (ILGO) to march during the annual St. Patrick&#;s Day Parade on Fifth Avenue in the early s that Blake became politically active. Closely following the organization, she became a member in , which was one of the biggest catalysts for her coming out. She recalled to The Irish Times in , “By the following St. Patrick’s Day I had left my marriage, friends, the whole Irish community in the Bronx and moved out to Brooklyn. I came out as a lesbian.” She continued,
Rena Blake, The Irish Times,
Blake consequently moved to Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, leaving her family and starting anew. A few years later, in , she and her companion Christine Marinoni (b. ) left their
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