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Contents:

• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE
• FROM THE ARCHIV, 1983: A GUI TO GAY SYDNEY
• THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE
• GAY SYDNEY HOTELS
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• BT CLUBS/PUBS SYDNEY? GAY OR STRAIGHT - SYDNEY FOM

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

Photograph: Anna Kucera | Miss 3D and Etcetera Etcetera at the Imperial Hotel, ErskevilleThe bt gay and queer pubs, bars and clubs SydneyHead to one of the popular LGBTQ+ spac for a good timeFrom a historil drag palace to subterranean digs – we've got you vered for where to go for a gay old time.

If you're after some outdoor fun, have a look through our list of gay-iendly beach. The upstairs night club, formerly known as the stalwart Midnight Shift, transforms to a sparklg pop-up dner theatre most weekends before the dancefloor heats up wh the biggt dance parti om GAYM Entertament.The Berford HotelIn a former life the Bero was a famo gay bar, and the gentlemen of Darlghurst are still well-reprented the crowd (pecially on Sunday nights).

GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE

The basement of this inic gay bar, known as Unrgound, is a boutique bar and club.

This former bank is one of Oxford Street’s more revered and historic gay bars. While Oxford Street is still the se of many of the longt-nng gay clubs Sydney, the fun isn’t relegated to Darlghurst alone.

If you’re keen to really make a night of , keep an eye on the lik of Heaps Gay, Poof Doof, Hoe of Mce, Honcho Disko and Birdge (as well as the social media-elive Kooky) to fd out when their next soiree start planng your next night out, read on for our gui to some of Sydney’s favoure gay clubs, pubs and bars. Chg-a-lgsSure, ’s not officially a gay bar, but Chg-a-lgs draws a pendably queer crowd. The ColombianOpen 9am ‘til 6am every day — y, you read that right — this sprawlg Oxford St hnt n always be unted on for a tipple the early 117-125 Oxford St, DarlghurstYou n fd all the tails for this year's Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras here.

FROM THE ARCHIV, 1983: A GUI TO GAY SYDNEY

Photograph: Serge KrouglikoffWhether you're gay as a goose, bi as a farewell, or jt dropped the wife off at tennis and have a few cur hours to yourself, Sydney's men-for-men sex on premis venu have every Dick veredIf New York is the big apple, then Sydney is the bent banana.

Keep the party gog at one of Sydney's bt gay and queer clubs, and then rever at one of Sydney's bt queer-iendly beach.

THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE

The bt gay and bi snas SydneySydney Cy Steam (357)Steamed dumplgs aren't the only juicy thgs on offer Chatown.

Gay-owned and n, and loted the heart of Chatown, Sydney Cy Steam has an open policy of welg "all rac, ag and siz". From Monday to Saturday the middle floor is open to a mixed crowd, cludg guys, gals and genr-nonnformg pals, and on Sundays, on the top floor only, gay guys n go nu. Established 1991, Bodyle was the first lawfully tablished sex-on-premis gay venue NSW.

GAY SYDNEY HOTELS

Tripadvisor performs checks on had a nice time at the gay bar here although everythg was jt a ltle sticky on the night we went. Tripadvisor performs checks on had trouble fdg reliable rmatn on the gay bar and club scene Sydney. Once here, we disvered that Oxford Street is the qutsential gayborhood of Sydney and Universal is the only major gay bar open 7 days a week.

Meanwhile, the troductn of laws that rtrict late-night socialisg central Sydney’s party preccts has severely damaged Oxford Street, the cy’s tradnal gay strip.

NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

And, while Oxford Street is fely hurtg, a handful of Sydney’s “tradnal” queer venu ntue to thrive there spe of the challengg and mixedTokyo Sg Song basement Patrick Abboud, a documentary filmmaker and televisn prenter who -hosts and produc for the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi GrasThe biggt challenge for visors who want to explore Sydney’s LGBTQI scene is that only the old, mastream optns tend to be listed travel guis.

On Sundays plays crowd-pleasg hoe, electro and two most mastream venu for gay guys are Stonewall and Arq. Lbian-iendlyThe Heaps Gay monthly rovg queer Geia Verkuylen, strategy and partnerships manager at Archer magaze, the Atralian journal of sexual diversyLbian-foced venu n be hard to fd Sydney. It’s also where the rovg queer party Heaps Gay has been held for the past uple of months.

Heaps Gay is a massive event that draws queer folk of all ag, sexuali and genrs.

BT CLUBS/PUBS SYDNEY? GAY OR STRAIGHT - SYDNEY FOM

To fd out what is gog on across Sydney regards to arts events and queer culture, keep an ear out for the rad programm Canvas (on FBi), and Gay Panic and So Hot Right Now (both on 2SER). Thk 1970s performance art meets homoerotic dience teractn, wh a sprklg of straight at boys who’ve stumbled downstairs om the pub above. The productn of Angels Ameri 2014 was heart-punchgly good, and I re-staged my turbo-gay one-man show, Blue Wizard, there durg Mardi Gras this year – so has fely supported this Wizard was part of the Mardi Gras Ftival, which ns the weeks leadg up to the para March.

NatnalNSWFlashbackThis was published 5 months agoThe Herald gave s rears a tour of Sydney’s gay bars, clubs and pubs - om the Cricketer’s Arms and the Green Park Der, to the Oxford Hotel and the Midnight Barry LoweFebary 14, 2023 — 12. 00amFirst published The Sydney Morng Herald on Febary 18, 1983Take a walk on the gay si of SydneyWhen I me out the mid-1960s, even the rarefied air of Asquh Boys’ High School, I had heard of gatherg plac for mal wh a siar sexualy to me that far-off mec of the ner cy.