It’s not as aggressive,” he said.Īt the Boston Eagle, which opened in 1980 and still serves $4 vodka tonics, business has slowed. Though Young met his fiance at a club in Manhattan, he said singles no longer cruise the bar scene. I would rather,” said Jonathan Young, a 23-year-old makeup artist who lives in the South End. Some credit online social networking Web sites. We want to be the stable kid on the block.”Įxplanations for the demise of so many gay bars depend on whom you ask. We’re not trying to be the new kid on the block. “We’re still here because we’re one of these places that made a conscious decision we would focus on attracting the mainstream. Ten years ago, Viggiano would have had more than a dozen options in Boston and Cambridge, but these days only a handful, such as Club Cafe or Fritz, run full-time operations. But the Boston University senior said the social scene has “hit a wall.”
Viggiano, who describes himself as “a work-hard, play-hard kind of guy,” hits the bar scene twice a week with a regular group of pals.
“It’s pretty limited when we talk about where we’re going to go,” said James Viggiano, 22, of Boston. That’s the question floating around Boston Pride Week, which began yesterday and culminates with the grand parade next Saturday.
