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The Mineshaft was a members-only BDSM gay bar and sex club 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.〔Patrick Moore, ''Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality'', Beacon Press, 2004, ISBN 0807079561, p. 19.〕 ==Description== Among those who frequented the Mineshaft were Jack Fritscher, who was present at its opening night and attended hundreds of times,〔Jack Fritscher, "The Mineshaft", introduction, written 2002, to reprint of article first published in ''Drummer'', 19, December 1977, http://www.jackfritscher.com/PDF/Drummer/Vol%201/33_Mineshaft_Mar2008_PWeb.pdf, retrieved September 29, 2014.〕 Fritscher's lover Robert Mapplethorpe, who took many pictures of the Mineshaft and was at one point its official photographer,〔Jack Fritscher, ''Robert Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera'', pp. 189-190.〕 gay erotic artist Rex,〔Fritscher pp. 502-505 and 509.〕 and Annie Sprinkle, who said she was one of three women ever allowed in.〔"Keith Hennessy asks Annie Sprinkle Ten Questions about the Old Days", ''Dance Theatre Journal'', 2013, reprinted at http://tessawills.com/when-sex-performance-came-together/, retrieved September 29, 2014.〕〔"Annie Sprinkle's Kinky NYC 1975-1995", http://anniesprinkle.org/2008-events, retrieved September 29, 2014.〕 (One of the other women was Camille O'Grady.〔Jack Fritscher, introduction to reprint of "The Mineshaft" from ''Drummer'' 19, December, 1977, ''Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer'', San Francisco, Palm Drive Publishing, 2008, ISBN 1890834386, pp. 471, 474, and 510, http://www.jackfritscher.com/PDF/Drummer/Vol%201/33_Mineshaft_Mar2008_PWeb.pdf, retrieved September 29, 2014.〕) Manager Wally Wallace (born James Wallace) said that he turned away Mick Jagger, and a bouncer turned away Nureyev.〔Fritscher, p. 479.〕 But Vincente Minelli, Fassbinder, Rock Hudson, and Foucault got in.〔Fritscher, pp. 479 and 510.〕 There was no sign on the entrance; the exterior has been described as "grimy".〔Patrick Moore, ''Beyond Shame. Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality'', Boston, Beacon Press, 2004, ISBN 0807079561, p. 178.〕 The location had previously been used by a gay bar, Zodiac.〔Paul L. Montgomery, "(Raids Close 9 After-Hours Bars Linked to Mafia )", ''New York Times'', July 19, 1971, p. 1.〕 The entrance to the club was up a flight of stairs, on the second floor. The door was manned by someone who rejected anyone wearing preppie clothes or cologne. Originally the Mineshaft was on that one floor (and with a scat room, which was soon abandoned as too extreme.)〔Moore, p. 23.〕 It soon expanded to the first floor beneath, cutting a hatch in the middle of the (second) floor which gave access down rough stairs to a recreation of a jail cell, the back of a truck, dungeons, and a room containing spotlighted bathtubs in which men could let other men urinate on them.〔Will Kohler, "LGBT History Month: Remembering the Mineshaft - 835 Washington St. NYC, NY (1976-1985)", http://www.back2stonewall.com/2012/10/disappearing-gay-history-mineshaft-835.html, October 4, 2012, retrieved September 29, 2014.〕〔Jack Fritscher, "Pissing in the Wind", ''Drummer'', 19, December 1977, reprinted with introduction by Jack Fritscher, http://www.jackfritscher.com/PDF/Drummer/Vol%201/33_Mineshaft_Mar2008_PWeb.pdf, retrieved September 29, 2014, also reprinted as "Wet Dreams, Golden Showers" in ''Corporal in Charge of Taking care of Captain O'Malley And Other Canonical Stories'', San Francisco, Gay Sunshine Press, 1984, ISBN 0917342453, pp. 193-202, reprinted at http://www.jackfritscher.com/PDF/Corporal/Wet%20Dreams.pdf, retrieved September 29, 2014.〕 The Mineshaft operated from October 8, 1976 until it was closed by the New York City Department of Health on November 7, 1985, although tax problems played a significant role in its closing.〔Jay Bletcher, "Sex Club Owners: The According to Jack Fritscher, Jacques Morali drew his inspiration for the four archetypes of the Village People from the Mineshaft's dress code.〔Fritscher, p. 509.〕 Glenn Hughes, the original leather biker of the Village People, frequently attended.〔Fritscher, p. 466.〕 The existence of the Mineshaft was widely known among gays who never visited; it has been called a "mythic()...space".〔Moore, p. 20.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mineshaft (gay club)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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