Latino Heat in North Plainfield NJ

How far is this town from NYC?

About an hour.

It is one of those gay bars that doesn't call itself a gay bar.

Looks like a wooded area behind it next to the Plainfield train from Google Maps.

Not sure if a good place to end up mugged.

Why is it called Latino Heat?

[quote]Why is it called Latino Heat?

They serve salsa made with habanero peppers, Rose.

I'd say yes. Big equipment in Plainfield.

I kind of want to check it out but I can find no independent vertificatia that it is, in fact, a gay bar and not just a Spanish bar.

Plainfield NJ is crawling with wealthy eldergays I do know that.

“Latino Heat Sports Bar & Grille.” Wtf? You sure it’s for gays?

[quote]Plainfield NJ is crawling with wealthy eldergays I do know that.

Sleepy Hollow, Hillside Avenue, or W. Eighth Street?

Why is there a pic of a half naked woman on their Facebook page?

Ha! I am not from there but I know Gov Jim McGreevey lives there with a rich eldergay.

I would not be shocked if it keeps up appearances.

But if you Google "Plainfield gay bar" it is the first result.

That facebook cover photo looks like cover for closeted Ecuadorians...

So it’s a gay bar that’s trying to pretend it’s not a gay bar except when people do a Google search?

lol. There are some pretty questionable gay bars being listed by Google. The Homestead in Piscataway? No way.

So wait is it a straight bar?

Most likely, R16. Thought it seems they did have a “Gay Night” a few years back.

Though*

All the gay bars are closing.

The Royal in Jersey city jusy opened.

Who remembers the Other World Disco.

Do any of the patrons have Guatemaleness?

Im new to Jersey so Im looking for all the gay spots. Anything near Somerset?

Sounds very suspicious.

Have and DLers visited this establishment?

I'm sorry miss, but with all due respect, I have my own problems.

R21 - I went to college in Newark in the early to mid 80s. Never heard of that bar.

R23 - I don’t think so. The Den is now closed. I don’t know of any nearby. Asbury Park is probably the closest.

In the house music genre and scene, Newark is known as an innovator. Newark's Club Zanzibar, along with other gay and straight clubs in the 1970s and 80s, was famous as both a gay and straight nightlife destination. Famed DJ Tony Humphries helped "spawn the sometimes raw but always soulful, gospel-infused subgenre" of house music known as the Newark Sound, the Jersey Sound, or Jersey Club music.

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A sizable and diverse LGBTQ community contributes to the long-time perception of Plainfield as a stronghold of gay life and gay community in the suburbs of New Jersey.

Plainfield has one of the highest percentage of same-sex householders in the state of New Jersey.[85][86] The First Unitarian Society of Plainfield, the oldest such congregation in the US, is certified as LGBTQ welcoming.

In 1986, the New York Times reported on what was termed at the time as the "growing homosexual population in Plainfield" drawn to the stock of aging Victorian, Tudor and colonial homes, and featured interviews with various gay men who lived in Plainfield and worked in Manhattan.[87]

I never heard of the Newark Sound before

My theory, r28 is that it doesn't get promoted bevause it is way too gay and waaay too black.

Whereas when one of Bruce Springsteen's keyboardist's cousins plays one note on his keyboard, reams of column inches swoon.