The Cock Ring (New York City Gay Bar and Club/70's and 80's) counter culture and the door stayed open

and the door stayed open

One Way was more than a gay bar — it was a command

As the founder of the Church of Satan in 1966

before “representation” was a talking point

The Cock Ring (New York City Gay Bar and Club/70's and 80's) counter culture and the door stayed openMichael Musto's Cock Ring Memory THE COCK RING (180 Christopher St. at West St.) On the street level of the Hotel Christopher, this was a flat out raunchy dancing and shtupping palace full of guys sporting tell all keys and bandanas, sniffing Poppers, and looking for love. The West Village was alive with hormonally based bars and clubs in the 70s, and the colorfully named Cock Ring was a de rigueur jewel in the that neighborhoods gay crown.