And New York magazine, which named it the Best Gay Bar in New York City last year, said the bartenders “do-si-do on the bar top like an all-male version of Coyote Ugly.” The actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson and the television personality Anderson Cooper bantered about it on Mr. The bar, Flaming Saddles, at 793 Ninth Avenue, near 53rd Street, opened in 2011. “It’s high drama and high energy for sure,” declared Kris Coughlin, a bartender there. The place - improbably for Manhattan - is a country-western joint where the staff climbs on the bar and performs dance numbers. She favors off-the-shoulder tops and stiletto heels he wears leather jackets and rides a Harley. This sounds like the premise for a sitcom or a reality TV show: A straight couple opens a gay bar.
