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Your Last Weekend to Grab a Drink at NYC’s Oldest Black Gay Bar Starlite Lounge

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Starlight Lounge, described as “one of Brooklyn’s oldest gay bars and possibly the first black-owned gay bar in Brooklyn,” is shutting down this weekend after the building’s new owners, who have been looking to demolish the building, evidently forced out the ground floor tenants. [Brownstoner, Rod 2.0]

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