Swiss no miss: Zurich wel gays :: Bay Area Reporter

Contents:

• THE 5 BEST ZURICH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ZURICH
• BT GAY HOTELS IN ZURICH: THE ULTIMATE GUI
• GAY PARTI & LGBTQ+ EVENTS
• GAY BARS ZURICH
• GAY ZURICH
• SWISS NO MISS: ZURICH WEL GAYS
• TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN ZURICH
• TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS OLD TOWN (ZURICH)SEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS OLD TOWN
• THE 5 BEST CANTON OF ZURICH GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS CANTON OF ZURICH
• TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS OLD TOWN (ZURICH)GAY CLUBS & BARS OLD TOWN
• ZURICH GAY MAP
• ZURICH GAY CAFéS & RTRANTS
• GAY SWZERLAND
• TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS GEWERBCHULE (ZURICH)GAY CLUBS & BARS GEWERBCHULE
• THE 5 BEST ZURICH GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS ZURICH
• TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS OLD TOWN (ZURICH)GAY CLUBS & BARS OLD TOWN
• GAY PARTI & LGBTQ+ EVENTS
• TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN ZURICH

THE 5 BEST ZURICH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ZURICH

It is here that the olst gay bar Europe, the Barfüsser, is loted. Are preferred gay venu close to Langstrasse. Last updated: June 20th, 2023There’s no shortage of fabulo hotels Zurich, and many of them are gay-iendly.

The tablishments are an excellent optn for gay travelers, partly bee they’re often close to gay bars, and partly bee you get to support an tablishment that supports and promot your valu. Whether you’re gay yourself or you jt want to support a gay hotel, Zurich won’t disappot. You’ll get a warm wele at any of the hotels featured this gui, so, keep readg to fd out about the bt gay-iendly hotels Zurich, and fd the bt hotel the part of the cy where you want to stay!

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If you want to be close to the cy’s bt gay bars and nightclubs but you’d rather not spend a fortune on a hotel room, this is fely an optn worth nsirg.

On the other hand, if you’re more terted the Kg Kong parti and siar events Zurich, you’ll be glad to know that the gay scene this neighborhood is thrivg and you’ll be wh walkg distance of the bt lols. Langstrasse is the hip and trendy area of Zurich, where you will fd a thrivg gay nightlife wh plenty of gay lol. The area is jt a short walk away om the heart of the cy, and ’s a great part of Zurich to stay if you’re lookg for lower hotel pric and an excellent gay scene.

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25hours Hotel Zürich Langstrasse is LGBTQ+ iendly, so all the gay guts will get a warm wele. It’s a ltle further away om the cy center and the gay Zurich scene, but the promise is that you have fabulo views of Lake Zurich and the cy’s rooftops. This is possibly the bt gay hotel for travelers who are ed to luxury, regardls of their sexual orientatn.

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The hotel is also on the same street as Cranberry Bar, an tablished gay bar the heart of the cy. Plenty of other gay bars and clubs are very close to the hotel, makg the Marktgasse an excellent optn for travelers who plan on partyg Zurich and want to be wh easy walkg distance of their hotel.

The only downsi is that you won’t be adjacent to the cy’s bt gay bars and nightclubs, but most will still be wh easy walkg distance. Stayg at this hotel means dg fabulo rtrants and beg taken on boat ris, which is a solid promise for havg to travel a b to the clost gay bar.

The lotn is excellent bee you’re the cy center and close to all the popular attractns, but also the trams and b n quickly take you to the heart of Zurich’s gay scene. The hotel is about a 20-mute walk om some of Zurich’s bt gay bars and clubs, or only 5 mut by tram.

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Hotel Storchen is also very close to some of Zurich’s most popular gay bars and clubs Altstadt and merely a two-mute walk om the Cranberry Bar, one of the cy’s first gay bars. Swzerland’s bt LGBT clubsFd the bt gay and lbian nights out – wh the ultimate gui to Swzerland’s LGBT nightlife sceneThe LGBT party scene Swzerland offers somethg for everyone, om relaxed, mixed-queer shdigs to sweaty danceathons. For all their alpenhorn-apotheosizg and maret-margalisg tradnalism, the Swiss have for many s taken a world-leadg stance on gay and lbian rights.

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Same-sex relatns were crimalised here 1942, and on New Year’s Day 2007 a referendum ma Swzerland the first untry on Earth where gay civil unns were voted by the public, not jt parliament – and by a massive majory. Today Zurich, which happens to have a chic lbian mayor Core Mch, is very much Swzerland’s LGBT pal, as well as one of the world’s most gay-iendly ci, wh bars, f, snas and clubs addg up to dozens of gay venu.

The old town’s Barfüsser is nsired Europe’s olst gay hostelry and the annual Zurich Pri event now draws around 45, 000 pk party people. Tellg the story of the world’s first gay and lbian anisatn, a Zurich-based group, which formed the 1940s, this excellent docudrama has won plds and awards at film ftivals all over the world.

Welg to men, women, straights and other, L Garçons opened late 2013 the lively, multicultural area around Langstrasse – also the cy’s red-light district and no ls fun for that – and has been weled by younger gay guys particular as a long overdue rethkg of the Zurich LGBT waterg hole, plete wh glass-walled fumoir and ee wi-fi.

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Maly male A-gays both young and old flock to this smart, two-storey bar the heart of the old town for the jtly famo cktails (as everywhere this town they are far om cheap, but happy hour, currently between 5pm and 7pm, eas the punishment to your purse) and chilled chat, even if the tun hover at the chey end of the spectm. HeavenThe closure last year of club T&M marked the end of an era for a generatn of Zurich gays. Steps om the Cranberry and the only full-time gay nightclub town, the iendly venue’s genero space and high-qualy sound system uld always be relied on to pull a crowd and brg the party.

It’s the statn for several regular tourg party nights such as the joyoly mp Balkan Gay Night and the hip-hop twkft Boyakasha. HelnbarEvery Wednday, live mic bar Provreff, on the edge of Zurich Wt, is taken over by Helnbar, somewhere between a mixed alternative bar and an arty gay club night that wouldn’t look out of place Berl. MännerzoneHeroilly unrenstcted, the Männerzone bar, next door to s leather and fetish shop, is a gay men’s space like Daddy ed to make, and draws a more mature crowd.

Lsanne43&10Outsi Zurich, Lsanne is the only Swiss cy to have a dited gay club, and the unabashedly mastream 43&10 ters to a young, hedonistic crowd every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. On Sundays ’s ee to get for gay night BarOpened 2011, the P-up Bar is that rart of LGBT thgs, a genuely mixed lbian and gay bar.

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It’s also the newt scene succs story what has recent years bee Swzerland’s gay send cy. P-up regularly jos forc wh another lol gay lounge bar, GT’s, to put on dance parti unr the banner Lsanne LBiGay Ssns. The olst gay bar Geneva, Le Déclic is a rt of Roman lumns, plastic palm tre, fairy lights, animal prts and those horrid wavy mirrors om Ikea.

A young, alternative-ish clientele workg a Brooklyn via Berl vibe chat and chill a sual urban fé-lounge space that’s welg and stylish, one of the last central areas to rist the homogenisg hand of big-bucks gentrifitn.

THE 5 BEST CANTON OF ZURICH GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS CANTON OF ZURICH

Cranberry • ZurichThis two-floor tablishment has been amongst Zurich's most popular gay bars for a uple of s, always by, always btlg. Var party labels changg lotns guarantee a lively ambiance – particularly popular are the events staged by the largt gay party anizer Angels. Sce the year 2000 the "Warmer Mai" (Warm May), a cultural month, is held annually, focg on homosexual them the fields of art and culture.

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A bar wh clean, morn l, Cranberry is filled wh the young, hip and gay.

mixed gay/straight.

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Predigerhof is equented by gay men of every ilk.

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Gay Capal of Swzerland.

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But what might be surprisg is the vibrant, active and excg gay muny that lls Zurich home.

TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS GEWERBCHULE (ZURICH)GAY CLUBS & BARS GEWERBCHULE

Many of the gay venu are here. While London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berl may get more prs, Zurich may be among the most unrrated gay-iendly statns Europe.

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The cy has a by gay nightclub scene.

The gayt part of Zurich is also nveniently the "Old Town, " where Zurich began; is also the biggt tourist attractn of the cy. Old Town is divid by the Limmat River; the gay part is on the right bank, or Nierdorf sectn. The Cranberry bar and the G-Colors plex are the most popular gay nightspots the cy.

Barfser has been around for 60 years and claims to be the olst gay bar Europe. It still has the rabow flag promently displayed out ont but 's not exclively gay like once was. It draws a gay-straight mix weekdays but the lounge bar is still mostly gay on Saturdays and Sundays.

TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS OLD TOWN (ZURICH)GAY CLUBS & BARS OLD TOWN

The Lobby bar is a gay-straight mixed bistro bar on the same block of Barfser. In Old Town, the remar of the smaller gay bars tend to get a higher number of rent boys the farther south you go, past Muhlegasse Street.

If you want a very unique gay bar experience Old Town, check out the Tip Top bar. The management says that although most of the clientele is gay, they get a healthy mix of non-gays.

Gays pack the terrace of the Kfletere dis for a nightp to what has undoubtedly been a fun-filled weekend. Check out the s and for rmatn about gay parti held Zurich at var lotns.

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Also, a great gui to nightlife and all thgs gay Zurich n be found on the cy's official web se. Earlier this year, a brothel for gay men opened Zurich. It is lled the Goln Gay Spa.

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In sheer ncentratn, the gayt of the swimmg areas of Zurich may be the river at Utoquai, a public bathg facily wh woon docks, suncks, changg areas, and showers. Gay men tend to gather on the men-only left si dock and suncks. On a uple of recent trips there, I would timate that there were around 200 people on the docks and easily a third were gay men.