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The third consecutive nightclub popular for housing hot gay parties has closed its doors. Happy Valley has closed! That wipes out John Blair completely this weekend and basically hits Susanne Bartsch while she's down. For that she sent this letter of apology to her patrons:
"ITS BEEN A ROUGH WEEK.....ITS A YEAR NEXT TUESDAY SINCE WE STARTED HAPPY VALLEY TUESDAYS....HAPPY VALLEY HAD TO CLOSE DOWN, THE OWNERS OF THE CLUB LOST THE LEASE IN A COURT BATTLE WITH THE LANDLORD.... ALSO I AM SO SORRY ABOUT THE HALLOWEEN DRAMAS.....THE POLICE SHUT DOWN THE PARTY FOR NO APPARENT REASON....I AM TOLD IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR THEM TO DO THAT....I AM OUTRAGED AND VERY SAD....EVERY BODY MADE SUCH AN EFFORT AND I FEEL TERRIBLE TO HAVE PUT PEOPLE IN SUCH A POSITION..."
I guess Susanne took on the law and the law won!
For those of you can't live without Roxy Saturdays, you're going to die! That's cause Roxy is closed this week. I hear it's because of owed back taxes, so they might be entering the Avalon style "pay your taxes on the weekend" type place.
What's going on with all the gay hot spots??
The Closet is a product of a straight club that really wants to be involved in the gay community, so please don't discount them yet. They have a great plan to bring you a whole new party in mid-November.
The promoters and club management will announce later this week which party will be honoring GaySocialites.com membership cards this Sunday evening.
If you've fallen in love with Sundays at Spirit, we've got some bad news for you! It's closed for good. Every cloud has a silver lining though, John Blair and Alan Picus are taking their Sunday night soiree back to Avalon.
They'll be taking this weekend off, and the new party starts one week from Sunday.
John Blair is no stranger to the former Limelight space. Back in 2001 we partied under the lights at Limelight to his Sunday night sea of Chelsea boys properly labeled, Drama. Then Blair moved his Drama party to Centro-Fly and announced "major renovations" for Limelight. In 2002, while remodeling the space; Blair and his colleages came under fire for working with nightclub villan, Marvisi. Marvisi is most popular for being Peter Gaiten's competition in the club kid days, and he isn't too well liked or respected in the nightclub community. However, before his fall his empire was nice... we could go on about him, but we'll save it for a different time.
Regardless Blair reopened Limelight as Estate turned Avalon as the "Managing Partner," often accused of being nothing more than Marvisi's figure-head. Blair publicly distanced himself from Marvisi saying the two weren't partners insisting Marvisi was simply the Promotional Director, there to boost straight party attendance.
In 2005, Blair announced he was leaving Avalon and moving to his one time competitor, Spirit. Police closed Spirit on Friday, August 25th for alcohol and drug violations. It will interesting to see how Mr. Blair will fit back into the Avalon picture, but you can guarantee its going to be exciting!
This could just be the boost that New York's gay nightlife scene has needed.
