Dining & Drinking

April, 1978

Sorry, Kipling: What you said about East is East, etc., just isn't true anymore, at least not in the gay community. The twain do meet—dramatically—at Manhattan's Twilight, 1463 Third Avenue. You may see slender Thai youths, clustered at the bar's Western end, vamping a bearded British art dealer; a Japanese hairdresser leading an American claims adjuster into a mirror-walled alcove for some disco cavorting. Linguistically, the place is pure Tower of Babel moderne—walk from one end to the other a...