Tom Cat Club (New York Midtown Gay Bar/1970s–1980s) Adult Film there was Trocadero Transfer —

there was Trocadero Transfer — a cavernous

Deadpan sincerity

mid-AIDS crisis

and that weightless voice drifting somewhere between a lullaby and a ghost

Friendship quietly outlived nearly every version of Los Angeles queer nightlife that came and went around it

Tom Cat Club (New York Midtown Gay Bar/1970s–1980s) Adult Film there was Trocadero Transfer —Tom Cat Club New York, NY (1970s1980s) 903 First Avenue Midtown Manhattan Operating during the 1970s and into the 1980s, Tom Cat Club was part of the wide web of Midtown gay bars that existed beyond the West Village spotlight. Tucked along First Avenue, it served an after work crowd, neighborhood regulars, and men who preferred their nightlife straightforward and unpretentious. This was New York in the clone era tight denim, mustaches, Marlboros at