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Located at 228 8th Ave in the heart of Manhattan's Chelsea, Big Cup was a gay-oriented tea & coffeehouse that served as a vital hangout spot for the LGBTQ community & which became notorious for its thick cruising scene. Employees at Big Cup even lovingly nicknamed their workplace "Gay Grand Central."

Big Cup 1st opened in 1994 & was owned by partners Cliff Bradshaw & Scott Siler, who also ran the gay nightspot Hell in the Meatpacking District for 9 years. Giant Cup was modeled after the coffee shops of the West Coast & offered a casual place for gay men to socialize. Women & direct men were welcome too, but as 1 review at the time set it, "They just appear sort of irrelevant." Employees at Big Cup seemed to be 1/2 barista, 1/2 party host. Accomplishment came to Big Cup immediately. According to Mr. Bradshaw in a NYTimes writeup: “I don’t reflect we anticipated the reaction, that this would seize on this quickly.”

On any given night, music & crowds would fill the airy room with its Day-Glo interior & people would often spill out onto the sidewalk. The NYTimes described Big Cup as “a laid-back, quirky cuppa-cappuccino hangout

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February 2023: We have recently added two fields to our request create. You will notice LGBTQ-owned? and AAILA-owned? on some entries. These are self-declared fields. AAILA is 'African, Asian, Indigenous, Latin American'.

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    Friday, 4pm - 1am
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