Ramrod New York Poster (Iconic New York City Leather Bar/1973-1980) jet boy shirt Installed above the dance floor

Installed above the dance floor in the late 1970s

It was the kind of room where underground theater

The kind of place that promised fantasy with a straight face and delivered it with loud music

chapter in transgender history

the drag was fearless

Ramrod New York Poster (Iconic New York City Leather Bar/1973-1980) jet boy shirt Installed above the dance floorRamrod was Greenwich Villages emblematic leather barraw, unapologetic, and alive from around 1973 until it closed in 1980. Nestled at 394396 West Street along the piers, it became a buzzing sanctuary for the leather and denim crowd, complete with bootblack stands and the pulse of 1970s subculture . It was immortalized in the Village Peoples YMCA video and featured in leather guides of the timebut its end came in tragedy. On November 19, 1980, a