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There's no such thg as a five list of anythg, but that hasn't stopped om surg the world to fd 50 bars wh all the right quali to make you feel at home.THE AMERICAS:USAATLANTAMARY'STheme nights range om outrageo to downright unsavory: Hanky Co Party, No Pants Dance, and MondoHomo, to name a few. (512) 320-8823BOISE, IDEMERALD CLUBThe olst gay bar Boise attracts a mixed-genr crowd rangg om buffed-and-shed llege kids to olr upl matchg Wtern garb.

(903) 887-2061LEXINGTON, KYTHE BAR COMPLEXThe gay crown jewel of historic downtown Lexgton, this nverted speakeasy radiat fad glamour and genteel manners wh s three bars, huge upstairs dance floor, and plenty of dark nooks to enjoy gentleman llers or a mt julep. Famo for creative cktails (mmm, creamsicle!) and the perfect pat, this is where many a gay Angeleno brgs his or her out-of-town pals to see'and experience'the heart of WeHo.(310) 289-8410MIAMI BEACH, FLTHE RALEIGH HOTEL*Miami Beach hotels boast the ft poolsi partyg, and nothg tops the Raleigh.

The Raleigh's Sunday Soiree pool party (noon-10 p.m.) is an pecially popular place to slurp p amounts of haner-battlg bloodi.(305) 534-6300)NEW HAVEN, CTGOTHAM CITISouthern Connecticut's biggt gay statn draws a wispread crowd to s three sleek floors of dancg and bchery. Fd a iend early, bee after hours the basement turns to a hard-re goth playground wh thumpg hoe and gloomy performance art'unls you're to that.(203) 498-2484NEW YORK, NYTHERAPYAfter a long week the big cy, a drk at a sexy club the heart of the new gay village (Hell's Kchen) is theraptic. Manhattan's ever-by gay staple shows no sign of flaggg, and though you really may not re for Mil Mondays, this two-floor Chelsea staple has somethg for everyone'pecially when you're wasted and not too fsy.

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Happy hour fans sg karaoke and swill cheap cktails served by pec-heavy, unrwear-clad bartenrs, while young nightlife lovers revel trancey Top 40 remix until the wee hours.(212) 691-0073OAKLAND, CAWHITE HORSE INNCome for the party rpet'featurg stars and rabows that glow the black light'and stay for the karaoke (the wner of the East Bay Idol ntt tak home a ol grand) at 'the Ho,' an East Bay stutn that's one of the untry's olst gay bars.

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(602) 254-0231SANTA FE, NMSILVER STARLIGHT LOUNGE AND CABARETY, this is a bar the RabowVisn gay retirement home'er, 'ndomium, pennt and assisted livg muny''but the Starlight offers the bt damn pomegranate margara (ma by Mike) you're ever gog to have.(505) 428-7777SEATTLE, WARE-BAROff the beaten path the Belltown neighborhood, Re-Bar is full of surpris. There are plenty of gay or gay-iendly gutho and rtrants, and the gay nu beach is a hot spot durg the day wh Euros, Canadians, and Amerins as well as Costa Rins. Anythg go this down-home, cidly stic dance club, where men and women, gays and straights, profsnals and prostut, and Costa Rins and Tis alike mix and mgle, and language is no barrier to the bs at hand.

Performanc clu break-dancers, trapeze artists, and magic shows, and electro-fed beats tickle the ears of the straight, gay, and straight-up pijos the crowd.011 54 11 47 79 9396EUROPECZECH REPUBLICPRAGUESTELLA CLUBMaybe the last gay bar Prague that still has a buzzer. (He uldn't, however, rell the year World War II end.) 011 49 30 2134570PORTUGALLISBONS'TIMO C'UNo European neighborhood embodi yed nce like Lisbon's Bairro Alto'so 's no surprise that the seaport's most fabulo gay bar is ntled among s bbled hills. Packed on the weekend wh dark-haired Portugue migods, the old-school hangout is bt on weeknights jt before a long eveng stumblg around town.011 351 21 346 6471SPAINBARCELONAAXEL SKY BAR (pictured)Perched atop the Hotel Axel, which bills self as homo-iendly, Sky Bar mands stunng views over the Catalan cy, and 's also handily suated by the hotel's pool and Jacuzzi.

Anyone fashnable is wele among the mostly gay crowd here, where handsome bartenrs n hand-crack ice for your mojo or serve you at your art banquette.011 34 915 326 737TURKEYISTANBULBAR BAH'EThis zy tavern is tucked away a quat alley the bohemian Cihangir neighborhood. Of the five or six gay bars or clubs the cy, the Polo is probably the most popular, terg to an upmarket crowd'or at least as upmarket as Glasgow gets.

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