![]() ![]() With the Washington Heights opening, Boxers expects to pass the $10 million mark in annual sales this year, said its owners, Bob Fluet and Rob Hynds. It seems to be paying off - $2 Taco Tuesdays and all. It is frequently described as “gay Hooters,” not only for its Chippendales-style seminude employees but also its menu, which feels plucked from a Midwestern airport: Cap’n Crunch French toast, cheese fries, toasted cheese ravioli, chicken tenders, and macaroni & cheese bites. Yet, amid a gay renaissance of broader, nonconforming sensibilities - queer, transgender and woke - Boxers has bet on old-school, meat-market machismo. The city’s gay pride parade is now so mainstream that last year it was televised nationally. The Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village flash point of gay rights, was enshrined as a National Historical Landmark an AIDS memorial was erected on Greenwich Avenue Jason Collins played with the Brooklyn Nets as the NBA’s first openly gay player Laverne Cox went from waitressing in Union Square to gracing the cover of Time as a transgender icon and Ritchie Torres, a city councilman, became the Bronx’s first openly gay representative. In the years since Boxers opened, gay New Yorkers have won the right to marry and to serve openly in the military.
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