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Nightlife: Machine
Dance floor at Boston’s hottest gay club popular with all
A recent Friday night visit to Machine Nightclub offered a welcome assault on the senses. Thumping bass pervaded a room lit by colored lights and packed with gyrating bodies. If you’re looking to dance, there’s no better place to hit the floor than here.
Machine opened in and has attracted a diverse and loyal following. Although it’s a gay club, you’ll uncover people of every sexual orientation taking advantage of the terrific music and vibrant dance party atmosphere. It’s where the open-minded and fun-loving come to party.
Machine Friday, the weekly 18+ twist night held downstairs, is hosted by DJ Darrin Friedman, who spins a loud, energizing mix of Top 40, remixes, and house music in the enormous main room. Stationed on four platforms with poles, muscular male go-go dancers sporting tight, glowing boxer briefs and fluorescent body paint provide great eye candy, and a drag queen MC appears from time to day to keep things moving. The dance floor gets crowded with guys and girls, couples and friends.
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Boston&#;s gay bars of yore
Which Boston gay exclude do you long for the most?
Russ Lopez book, The Hub of the Gay Universe: An LGBTQ History of Boston, Provincetown and Beyond shares how vibrant Boston&#;s lgbtq+ scene was through the much of the 20th century. After WWII, Boston had more than a dozen homosexual bars. Those numbers would continue to proliferate over the coming decades (peaking in the s &#; 90s) alongside other businesses that catered to the local gay people.
Last year Machine / Ramrod closed after a developer purchased the building it was located in to rotate the block into residences. And a few weeks ago, I shared that the Boston Eagle has permnantly closed. The loss of these spaces has reignited the discussion about the gradual demise of the gay bar in Boston, and it made me wonder, what gay exclude from Boston&#;s past do you fail the most?
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The first story is about the stately old building at Boylston Street. It was originally built as a horse carriage factory, but in the s and s it was home to a gay club called simply the Club. The Club featured some of Boston's best DJs and was a popular identify for dancing. The club's three floors were filled with a diverse mix of gays, lesbians, and even adventurous straight people who came for the music. Here is a quote from a Boston Globe article hinting at the club's mystique:
After the Club closed the building was the site of several other other gay bars: Maximum Security, Tatoo, and finally Quest. Currently the building is home to the Baseball Tavern, a straight sports bar.
Saying Goodbye To Machine And Ramrod, Fenway's Last Gender non-conforming Nightlife Spots
The site of so much gay history in Boston is cute boring from the outside, just a squat gray building that stretches a whole block on Boylston near Fenway Park. Right now, the bars and storefronts that fill this building are empty as they await the wrecking ball that will usher in a future luxury apartment building. But until just before quarantine — when Machine Nightclub and bar Ramrod officially closed — past the front door and the blacked-out windows at Boylston St., inside was magic.
Ramrod, the leather and Levis queer bar, moved into the first floor in with Machine carving out a separate gay nightclub downstairs in Both spots had that kind of slightly dingy, lived-in feel of a well-loved gay hangout, the cigarette smell that seemed to hang in the air long after Boston banned smoking indoors, the dim corners here and there for making out. It was a sex-positive spot in a (still) puritanical city, with loud music and stiff drinks. Downstairs, drag queens twirled on stage in front of c