This is the State of Gay Nightlife Shanghai | SmartShanghai

Contents:

• [THE LIST]: GAY BARS IN SHANGHAI
• THIS IS THE STATE OF GAY NIGHTLIFE SHANGHAI
• SHANGHAI GAY BARS & SPAC
• GAY SHANGHAI
• THE BEST SHANGHAI GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SHANGHAI

[THE LIST]: GAY BARS IN SHANGHAI

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Eddy’s is Shanghai longt-nng gay tablishment. Luc (formerly known as 390) is smack the middle of Shanghai’s gayborhood. It's a stone’s throw om Happs, gay iendly Celia, and Telephone 6, which is jt upstairs.

THIS IS THE STATE OF GAY NIGHTLIFE SHANGHAI

You’ll see this place immediately om the mass of gay men spillg out onto Panyu Lu soaked sweat, and some tears. They also have a long booth area between the bar and a dance floor where faghags are soberg up and pouty gays are wag for their lost boyiends.

Drag shows, sntily clad mcle boy bar men, and pole dancg are to be expected amidst medcre ragg gay-techno. Like Luc, this small spot to om the owners of the former unrground gay bastn Shanghai Stud.

SHANGHAI GAY BARS & SPAC

On Fridays and Saturdays, the place fills up wh a mix of foreigners and lols chattg at the bar, dancg to gay-tun on the small dance floor, or jt chillg at the tabl. In gaydom, this place is a historil landmark for Cha’s unrground, closeted scene. For a long time, they rented out straight clubs like Obama, Dubai, and what's now Arkham to host gay parti lled Angel.

Flashg strobe lights, pulsatg mic om a afeng sound system, and heavy hand drk pours make for a fun night, but not one that will happen often unls you’re good at nvcg your expat gay crew to venture out that way for jt dancg. Brish-themed gay bar wh a maze of private rooms, some cheeky glory hol, and a neighborhood vibe.

Origally lled Happs 42 until 2019, when changed to HUNTbar, this small spot to om the owners of the former unrground gay bastn Shanghai Stud. It's a stone’s throw om Happs, gay iendly Celia, and Telephone 6, which is jt upstairs.... Part of the very earlit generatn of LGBTQ+ bars Shanghai, Asia Blue is the cy’s olst gay bar still currently operatn.

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Small gay lounge/bar on Fahuazhen Lu that's been open for over a . So while this list is very much jt a snapshot of a moment time, and any of the bars and parti uld disappear whout warng, I’ve tried to provi all the tools you might need to embark on your own gay odyssey to the sordid, fierce, rilient world of Shanghai LGBTQ+ nightlife.

The one, the only – Luc 390 is the first name Shanghai gay nightlife and the place that any newbie queer to the cy should h up first. It’s the most reliable optn on any given weekend, wh a mic policy of techno and gay pop anthems om Brney through Gaga and eher drag performanc or gogo dancers every Friday and Saturday night.

Luc also ocsnally holds muny events durg the week, and somehow retas a welg ra whout too much of the meat market vibe that n plague mastream gay nightclubs. Its posn at the pnacle of Shanghai’s gay nightlife scene is hard-fought and well-served.

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The worldwi cle lbian bars has been well-documented, and n be hard for queer women to feel like they have a reliable place to go, even major ci wh a flourishg gay nightlife scene. Unapologetilly sexual s promotnal materials and events, wh pole dancers, traffic light parti and sgl nights, Roxie embodi a proud, bched, mpy hedonism that’s the norm at gay bars like Luc but rarely, if ever, found at their lbian equivalent.

In the fall of 2019, the iendly gayborhood bar formerly known as Happs42 rebrand unr the name HUNT, after the party promoters who now own . HUNT, meanwhile began life as a party promotn pany back 2011 and is one of Shanghai’s most tablished gay promoters, curatg an eclectic roster of events that now have a permanent home at the bar. We’ve always had a soft spot for the muny vibe of Happs42, and bg forc wh HUNT’s diverse, amb event planng mak this an excg gayborhood space that’s very quickly g to s them on WeChat: HUNTShanghai.

Owner Andy buted the first versn of Asia Blue back 2000, when Shanghai nightlife was a very different animal and openg a bar tered to gay men was a trailblazg enavor. In the inic words of Hannah Gadsby, “where are the quiet gays supposed to go? This low-key neighborhood staple is suated squarely the gayborhood, a ten mute walk om Luc.

Owner Takuya hails om Jiangsu provce and is fluent Japane, so the bar is pecially popular wh gay Japane expats.