| Mineshaft | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| Type | Sex club |
| Location | Manhattan, New York City |
| Address | 835 Washington Street |
| Country | United States |
| Opened | October 8, 1976 |
| Closed | November 7, 1985 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Facilities | roof deck, clothes check, dungeons / private rooms, slings, glory holes, bathtub |
The Mineshaft was a members-only BDSM leather bar and sex club for gay men located at 835 Washington Street, at Little West 12th Street, in Manhattan, New York City, in the Meatpacking District, West Village, and Greenwich Village sections.[1]
- ^ Patrick Moore, Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality, Beacon Press, 2004, ISBN 0807079561, p. 19.