St. Petersburg's Gay Nightlife Is Alive and Kickg

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• THE BEST ST. PETERSBURG GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ST. PETERSBURG
• GAY BARS ST. PETERSBURG
• THE 15 BT GAY BARS ST. PETERSBURG
• ST. PETERSBURG'S GAY NIGHTLIFE IS ALIVE AND KICKG
• SAT PETERSBURG GAY CISE CLUBS
• SAT PETERSBURG GAY MAP
• BLUE OYSTER BARFUN GAY BAR WH KARAOKE, DRAG SHOWS AND THEMED NIGHTS SPB.SAT PETERSBURGMENUBARS & CLUBSCISE CLUBSTOURSCY GUIGAY MAPRSIA INXBLUE OYSTER BAR
• THE 17 BT GAY BARS ST. PETERSBURG

THE BEST ST. PETERSBURG GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ST. PETERSBURG

Petersburg gay bars are a popular statn for not only the cy’s gay men, but for straight men and women terted havg a “gay old time”.

The cy’s gay bars feature large, outdoor celebratns (not unlike a gay pri para) that attract people of all strip that wish to be entertaed by a group of eclectic and unique sgers and dancers. While not exclive any sense, some gay bars are signated for only certa typ of patrons (i.

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2(70)•A high-energy gay night club wh themed events, Cristoph's is a popular statn for bears and olr men.

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0(138)•HerbalistService tablishmentEnigma V Steam Boutique is a welg gay lounge wh chic siwalk tabl and an upsle ambience.

Gay-iendly statns range om hipster havens to drkg div, and offergs clu everythg om cktails and high-end cuise to jebox, pool and drag shows.

ST. PETERSBURG'S GAY NIGHTLIFE IS ALIVE AND KICKG

One of downtown Clearwater’s olst bs lotns (sce 1915), and a gay bar sce 1976, this small bar has a pool table and a je box, but s ma draw is the people.

The staff members at Pro Shop Pub are known for their iendls and they attract a robt crowd of regulars, both gay and straight. The pool at the Mari Jean Hotel is home to The Wet Spot, a pool bar and day club for gay adults St. Quench Lounge Largo claims to e "the sexit, all welg gay/LGBTQ bar (straight iendly)" the area.

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Petersburg, has also distguished self as most tolerant of the LGBT muny, acrdg to the rults of a recent banned “homosexual propaganda” among mors 2013, leadg the urts to ban gay pri events and public pollg show surgg anti-LGBT sentiment. In recent weeks, thori the North Cs republic of Chechnya have aga been acced of illegally tag and killg gay men and Petersburg me first place among 20 Rsian ci whose rints are the most gay-iendly, acrdg to the Zoom Market agency’s rearch published Saturday. Novosibirsk and Mosw placed send and third, followed by Voronezh, Krasnodar and the oppose end of the rankg, the marketg agency named Saratov, Chelyabsk and Kazan as the three least tolerant Rsian ci toward LGBT Market surveyed 2, 400 rponnts om 20 Rsian ci on how they feel about sexual mori and whether any of their iends are gay.

PETERSBURG — Perhaps what's most surprisg amid the homophobic rhetoric and the new law targetg the "promotn" of gay liftyl is the fact that St.

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Petersburg's gay scene has never been more visible or felt ls threatened than do today.

Like many aspects of Rsian civil society that tentatively grew up the early 1990s, the gay and lbian movement characterized self by keepg s head down, not upsettg the thori and tryg hard to avoid creatg trouble, a strategy most unlike that ed by other, more provotive European gay rights movements. Many gay people Rsia still nsir the mere existence of a gay rights movement a nuisance that will simply serve to turn an tolerant society's attentn toward a group of people that the average Rsian rarely se or even thks about. While gay rights groups have bee far more vol recent years, 's still no exaggeratn to say that the polil si of the gay scene remas small and rarely visible, even as polil prott seems to be returng to St.

Neverthels, the cy's gay scene is surprisgly by and accsible to all, wh four well-tablished clubs and a smatterg of bars and snas — differs ltle om the scene to be found any other European cy. The biggt and most European-style gay club town is Central Statn, at the end of Dumskaya Ulsa, a multi-floor fun hoe of Rsian trada, mastream pop and hoe, which is by nightly throughout the week. Petersburg gay scene and is maly popular wh gay men, though do have a girls' night (Female Statn, on Thursdays), where guys are still wele, though they have to pay twice as much to get .

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Next door, a short distance down Ulsa Lomonosova, is the self-styled "trash bar" the Blue Oyster (Golubaya Ustrsa), s name both a pun on the Rsian word for gay (goluboi) and a reference to the notor leather bar that is the butt of nstant jok the now rather dated Police Amy movi of the '80s. Petersburg gay scene highlight by any standards is the fantastic, fun and silly Cabaret club, now s umpteenth rnatn and venue, but havg been on the go one largely unchanged form sce the late 1990s.

The third large gay club the cy is the ventively tled The Club, which ed to be a straight venue, but has been totally overhled and is now marketed to the more elny sectns of the gay world. In the summer has a great outdoor area the buildg's urtyard where you n enjoy cktails unr the stars and mix wh the "-crowd" tovka gays their shy cloth. As wh any such club, you n expect your face to be ntrolled que thoroughly, although they maly seem to be keen to check that people know they're enterg a gay club.

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This is a iendly space for lbians and their iends (there's still a relatively small cross over between gay male and lbian nightlife St. Lookg like the spirual succsor to long-ad 90s gay club Grhniki wh s hilar mock-medieval terr plete wh ts chamail, this place boasts numero "thematic parti" (a Rsian phemism for gay), has a sna, mi-hotel and rtrant on the premis and is a favoure wh discreet ladi. So spe the current legal climate, there's plenty of choice and variety for gay and lbian life the northern pal, and for the most part no climate of fear exists for the men and women who lead their liv openly.