"The Wickedest Place in New York": May 11, 1890
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On May 11, 1890, the New York Press, a Republican Party newspaper, published a sensational story about the Slide, a bar at 157 Bleecker Street, which it headlined "The Wickedest Place in New York."
"At midnight in the Slide" (New York Herald, January 5, 1892. The earliest-known picture of the inside of a United States bar in which male prostitutes gathered to meet male customers.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Reproduced from a chapter about the Slide in Jonathan Ned Katz, Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality (University of Chicago Press, 2001), pages 288-296. Part of this chapter is visible on Amazon.com at: http://www.amazon.com/Love-Stories-between-before-Homosexuality/dp/0226426165
