• West Village
  • LGTBQ+

A Night at Julius’

4/9/2019Updated 10/11/2022

Julius’ is an old-school West Village bar that’s been serving drinks for more than 100 years. In 1966, three men from the Mattachine Society (an early gay-rights group) held a “sip-in” demanding service and helped set the wheels in motion for the fight for equality. We spent a spring night at Julius’ monthly Mattachine party to see what today’s crowd knows and loves about this nightspot.

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Anthony DeWitt, Jersey City, New Jersey

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Julius' Bar

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Dino LaValle, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan

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Jon Moore, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Angela Di Carlo, DJ for Mattachine party, Lower East Side, Manhattan

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Wendy Zhang (left) and Yihong Lu, Corvallis, Oregon

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Daniel Onzo, Bartender, Julius’

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Andrew Degand, Lower East Side, Manhattan

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James Frank, Dallas, Texas

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Alex Fawcett (left), Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and Ketak Gupta, Jersey City, New Jersey

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Juan-Carlos Munoz-Najar

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Lamar Thomas, Security Manager, Julius’

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DJ Tennessee (K. Tennessee Nichols), Harlem, Manhattan

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Helen Buford, Owner, Julius’

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Conor Hassett (left), Brooklyn, and Anthony Dewitt, Jersey City, New Jersey

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Raymond Franqui, Cook, Julius’

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Heather Litteer, Lower East Side, Manhattan