THE 10 BEST New York Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

Contents:

• THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
• LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN
• A GUI TO NYC'S GAY BARS
• THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• 13 BT GAY BARS IN BROOKLYN, NY
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NEW YORK CY'S GAY & QUEER BARS
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK
• NEW YORK CY GAY CISE CLUBS
• VIBRANT BUT INVISIBLE: GAY LIFE WTCHTER COUNTY
• BT GAY BARS IN NEW YORK CY
• HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC

While a lot of the NYC gay nightlife is over Manhattan, Brooklyn still has a stronghold on the queer nightlife.

Brooklyn’s most popular gay bar is Metropolan—a dive bar wh events all week long and drag shows jt about every night (and a great happy hour special). Nearby, The Rosemont is a newer gay bar that rarely charg a ver fee and feels a lot more sual and fortable than the scene-y Metro. Further out Brooklyn, the gay club 3 Dollar Bill hosts a variety of techno queer parti and ocsnal big-ticket events.

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From The Tillary, you n easily reach the LGBTQ nightlife both Park Slope (Good Judy’s, Gger’s), the gay bars Crown Heights & Bed-Stuy, and the bigger gay clubs Williamsburg. There’s that many ol and hip and queer thgs to do Brooklyn, ’s what mak New York Cy’s bt gay borough.

Bottom le: I've been workg hard at this rearch for most of my (almost) adult, my reviews of some notable NYC gay bars.

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I vised as many plac as I uld by neighborhood and clud optns om all of the boroughs except the Bronx, which appears not to have a sgle gay bar. Native New Yorker Eddie Gog talks about some of his favore gay bars the cy; be sure to leave yours the ments.

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The bartenrs will spend their time tellg you how "straight" they are— don't matter to me if you're gay or straight as long as you're terted gettg me a drk. : NoGym Sportsbar is loted at 167 8th Avenue, (212) 337-2439; Lounge: G Lounge was one of my first regular hot spots when I started feelg out the gay scene about 10 years ago.

Juli': Deemed New York's olst gay bar, as well as Greenwich Village's olst bar, Juli' is another hnt that has figured out.

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: NoJuli' is loted at 159 Wt 10th Street, (212) 243-1928; Hangar: For the most ethnilly mixed crowd that I've seen at a gay bar, The Hangar tak the ke. Though they don't operate full-time as a gay bar, lots of NJ gays drive over the bridge to h up this Staten Island hotspot; as far as I know 's the only gay or gay-iendly bar on the Island.

Jt a few blocks om the cha rtrants dottg Tim Square, The Spot is one of Manhattan’s newt gay bars, recently opened by the owners of Hell’s Kchen mastay Rise Bar.

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Though Marie’s Crisis don’t explicly intify as a gay bar, the beloved Wt Village hnt has been a queer haven sce the late 1800s. Mon, Jul 31 · 10:30 PM UTCA Mixer for LGBTQ Women, Femm, & Thems (IN PERSON)Group name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI) • Long Island Cy, NYGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI)Long Island Cy, NYOnle EventFri, Aug 4 · 10:00 PM UTCFor Us By Us- A LGBT BIPOC Meet-UpGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI) • Long Island Cy, NYGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI)Long Island Cy, NYOnle EventWed, Aug 2 · 10:00 PM UTCLGBTQ Women, Femm, & Thems Virtual SocialGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI) • Long Island Cy, NYGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI)Long Island Cy, NYOnle EventWed, Aug 16 · 10:00 PM UTCLGBTQ Women, Femm, & Thems Virtual SocialGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI) • Long Island Cy, NYGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI)Long Island Cy, NYOnle EventWed, Aug 9 · 10:00 PM UTCLGBTQ Women, Femm, & Thems Virtual SocialGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI) • Long Island Cy, NYGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI)Long Island Cy, NYTue, Aug 1 · 10:30 PM UTCYou've Got Gayme: Virtual Game NightGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI) • Long Island Cy, NYGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI)Long Island Cy, NYSat, Aug 12 · 7:00 PM UTCFlame Con: World's Largt LGBTQ Comic Conventn (NYC)Group name:Queer Social: Curated Events For LGBTQ People - Wt Coast • San Francis, CAGroup name:Queer Social: Curated Events For LGBTQ People - Wt CoastSan Francis, CASat, Aug 12 · 5:00 PM UTCFlame Con: World's Largt LGBTQ Comic Conventn (NYC)Group name:Queer Social: Curated Events for LGBTQ People - Northern • Chigo, ILGroup name:Queer Social: Curated Events for LGBTQ People - NorthernChigo, ILSat, Aug 12 · 4:00 PM UTCFlame Con: World's Largt LGBTQ Comic ConventnGroup name:Queer Social: Curated Events For LGBTQ People • New York, NYGroup name:Queer Social: Curated Events For LGBTQ PeopleNew York, NYThu, Aug 17 · 11:00 PM UTCMil Theater Night Out: Straight ForwardGroup name:Queer Social: Curated Events For LGBTQ People • New York, NYGroup name:Queer Social: Curated Events For LGBTQ PeopleNew York, NYSun, Aug 20 · 10:00 PM UTCDner & Movie Social: Blue BeetleGroup name:Queer Social: Curated Events For LGBTQ People • New York, NYGroup name:Queer Social: Curated Events For LGBTQ PeopleNew York, NYSun, Aug 13 · 6:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Book Swap! Hell’s Kchen and Chelsea offer the most “tradnal” gay bars and clubs, where visors n check out venu wh hunky shirtls bartenrs, a mostly-gay-male clientele, and thumpg hs gog late to the night.

It’s a fun and totally ridiculo experience that’s like a gay Coyote Ugly llid wh a down-home honky-tonk, but the fact that Flamg Saddl don’t take self serly is exactly why ’s such a fun bar to go to, offerg an unpretent experience that’s pecially good for anyone visg a gay bar for the first time. One of my favore thgs about Duplex is that don't feel the need to nform to any prenceived notn of what a gay bar is.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

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One of the most important facilators of muny for LGBTIQ+ New Yorkers is The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center, referred to by lols simply as “The Center”. “Cisg” Central Park is also very real, and if you're g om somewhere that don't have much of a gay muny, thgs like this might e as a b of a culture shock.

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Nowadays, gays have sex their apartments—sometim even beds—but back the old days, lots of gays went to all kds of rnchy lol to rry on, om clubs to parks to tcks to bath ho. In the Wt Village the '60s and '70s, gays ngregated var large vehicl that had been unload, as were, and were left open the back, poetilly enough.

Gays went to a booth, stuck their bs a slot as if mailg a COD package, and then waed for someone to nibble on .

The Club and the Everard were hoppg wh gays towels, but maybe the most famo of all was the Contental Baths (2109 Broadway), where the gays went to see Bette Midler perform—though more often, they were performg their own acts (sex acts, that is) the rooms they rented. It was a wanton sex se, where gays stood around gettg naked and sandy—and blown (by the sand and by other guys). Gays went to the booths to rry on wh strangers, and when they left, all moist and sticky, they weren't the least b more lerary than when they me .

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Back when the pier was a big, old rottg piece of wood, gays would hang out there lookg for hot hookups, and totally gettg them. The river -- like the woods -- seems to turn gays on, addn to the fact that the relatively remote urban areas always provid a sort of taboo but nvenient space for dog .

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This borough is full of gay bars which means you don’t have to go to Chelsea, Wt village, or Hell’s kchen to get to a gay bar.

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This gui will help you fd the bt gay bars Brooklyn and help let you know the spots where to fd gay events and night hangouts.

It is a favore spot Lorimer stop and was opened 2015 as a gay bar by the same owners of Metropolan bar.

Compared to the other gay bars on this list, the Exley bar is the smallt, wh the perfect terr r and perfect outdoor seatg. This w-boy style bar is another gay bar that you will enjoy as blends the old school queer and new to create a fantastic atmosphere.

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Whether you're celebratg NYC Pri late June, planng a future trip to the Big Apple, or a lol lookg for a new bar to check out, here is a prehensive list of nearly every gay and queer bar NYC. Alibi Lounge, Harlem: One of the cy's only gay, Black-owned LGBTQIA+ bars, this morn bar serv up a variety of specialty cktails, we, beer, and bar snacks. The Cock, East Village: This gay-men-only bar is the most cise-y of all the gay bars the cy.

The Eagle NYC, Chelsea: Perhaps the send-most cise-y of New York's gay bars, the multi-level Eagle ters almost exclively to gay men, and gets more bchero on each floor.

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Gym Sportsbar, Chelsea: As the name impli, this is a gay sports bar, popular for post-game team drks. Juli', Wt Village: Another Wt Village stutn, 1966, a "sip " was held by activists at the bar to challenge the New York State Liquor Authory's regulatn that barred the servg of homosexuals.

REBAR, Chelsea: This dtrial-feelg gay bar is a Chelsea standard, featurg energetic drag shows and DJs throughout the week. Rz Bar & Lounge, Hell's Kchen: Smack dab the thick of the Theater District, multi-level Rz Bar & Lounge plays host to many good old-fashned dance parti, attractg a mostly younger gay crowd.