Mars Needs Men (Mars Gay Nightclub/New York City/80's and 90's) Size:L often without signage or publicity

often without signage or publicity

turning music into wearable protest and pride

and exist openly at a time when few public options were available

In a city and a state where openly lesbian spaces were especially rare

Deee-Lite World Clique Tour Tee (1990)

Mars Needs Men (Mars Gay Nightclub/New York City/80's and 90's) Size:L often without signage or publicityMARS NYC Mars Needs Men In the late 1980s and early 1990s, MARS stood at the center of New Yorks downtown nightlife a multi floor, industrial fever dream on Hubert Street where club kids, artists, dancers, and queer night creatures shaped an era. And nothing hit harder than its infamous Mars Needs Men nights: sweaty, electric, unapologetically homoerotic evenings where the citys gay underground took over the entire club. Strobe lights bounced off