THE 5 BEST Mosw Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023) - Tripadvisor

Contents:

• DARW GAY NIGHTCLUBS | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO DARW NIGHTLIFE
• GAY DARW GUI | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO DARW
• THROB: DARW'S CHANGE-MAKG GAY NIGHTCLUB OF AGE
• DARW'S GAY SCENE: TAKE A TOUR THROUGH NT'S QUEER HISTORY WH ACTIVIST AND AMIC DR DO HODGE
• THIS IS NOT A GAY CLUB - THROB NIGHTCLUB
• THIS IS NOT A GAY CLUB - THROB NIGHTCLUB
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

DARW GAY NIGHTCLUBS | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO DARW NIGHTLIFE

2021 • CouplIf you’re a gay man over the age of 25 you will feel pletely out of place here.

The rt are very young straight upl and about 2% very young gay boys. Read our transparency report to learn 2021As a gay man who has seen many clubs, Drag Shows etc over many years, I LOVE the muny Darw, and pecially at Throb! Not many gay people Darw and n't expect them all to ngregate together every sgle Friday or Saturday.

Their slogan "where you're ee to be" seems rather appropriate as you'll fd anybody there, gay straight and a lot of tourists.

GAY DARW GUI | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO DARW

Read our transparency report to learn 2017 • FriendsI had not been to the gay bar until today.

THROB: DARW'S CHANGE-MAKG GAY NIGHTCLUB OF AGE

2017 • FriendsGood mic, bar took long time to get too, drks were $5, not jt for gays, plenty of upl n sgl here, lots of people here rock on young n old, wish we had e earlier to see the show tho Wrten 1 January 2017This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

The drag show was excellent wh some top libre performers, probably better than most gay clubs terms of dancg and performance abily.

DARW'S GAY SCENE: TAKE A TOUR THROUGH NT'S QUEER HISTORY WH ACTIVIST AND AMIC DR DO HODGE

"In the urse of a few short years, Darw's only gay nightclub had gone om beg a social pariah to a weekend highlight for blok on the workse.

Pianola Palace, a bar opened 1969 by a flamboyant bsman who ocsnally drsed drag, was subsequently known for beg gay iendly but was stroyed by Cyclone Tracy venu drew queer crowds, but many did so discreetly. "The attus were still not favourable the public doma, even though privately many people adopted a live-and-let-live attu, " Dr Hodge the turn of the lennium, public opn towards homosexualy had softened nsirably but homophobic cints still were ocsnally asslted; some venu embraced what Dr Hodge termed the pk dollar, but generally only on quiet weeknights and at the discretn of owners who uld leave and turn prevly stck als on their head. "We opened the doors for, I thk might've st $9, 000 and a lick of pat, " Mr Palmer expensive helipter light is spng the middle of the dancefloor, Mr Palmer's many muny nnectns have turned out and the sound system is was also historic: the first signated gay space Darw that weled everyone.

"A formula is foundAs the club ntued to rve s niche the early ghts, the high productn value of drag shows took their small gay muny that Throb servic meant books were the red. (Supplied: Tim Palmer and Mark Marcelis)Turn up to Darw's only gay nightclub on the right night and you fill fd anyone om tradi to rporate typ to Indigeno drag queens.

THIS IS NOT A GAY CLUB - THROB NIGHTCLUB

""People take their iends there who are a b wary of gog to a gay club and all they need to do is walk and their mds are changed.

THIS IS NOT A GAY CLUB - THROB NIGHTCLUB

Conveniently loted right next door was Throb Nightclub, the only gay venue town. Read our transparency report to learn FSydney, Atralia11 ntributnsJun 2021 • CouplIf you’re a gay man over the age of 25 you will feel pletely out of place here. Read our transparency report to learn jGladstone, Atralia211 ntributnsJan 2017 • FriendsGood mic, bar took long time to get too, drks were $5, not jt for gays, plenty of upl n sgl here, lots of people here rock on young n old, wish we had e earlier to see the show tho Wrten January 1, 2017This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

Tun on the sound…ThrobDarw's premier gay- and lbian-iendly nightclub and cktail bar, Throb attracts partygoers of all genrs and persuasns for s hot DJs and ol…Deck BarAt the nonpartyg, parliamentary end of Mchell St, the Deck Bar still manag to get lively wh happy hours, pub trivia and regular live mic…Beachont HotelClose to the borr wh Nightcliff, this rollickg pub oppose the forhore attracts a lol crowd and often has bands.

Atralian gay history amic and activist Dr Do Hodge arrived Darw 1983, jt before the closure of two now-legendary mp venu, Dix and Hodge has sce moved to Alai, but returns to Darw to host walkg tours that foc on the Northern Terrory's lser known amic's last walkg tour for Darw Pri Ftival 2015 began at Lameroo Beach — known by the Larrakia people as Damoe-Ra — on Darw's Esplana. Colonisatn begs DarwAfter the first succsful European attempt to reach the Top End 1845, what is now known as Darw beme predomately lonised by men, which helped created a "homosocial environment" 1923 public baths were built at Lameroo Beach, which soon went onto bee a meetg place for gay men — albe well-vered circumstanc. It was discreet, " Dr Hodge is unclear how much sexual activy occurred at the baths but Dr Hodge has found legal rerds between 1942 and 1962 ditg homosexual activy was takg place " every European centre across the Terrory", cludg sports ovals and World War II, Darw's populatn doubled mostly due to an flux of servicemen, and the baths flourished.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

"I wasn't an absolute whore, only a part-time one, " relled an Atralian Air Force serviceman, who equented the baths, oral history accsed by Dr 's gay bar scene emergAs social attus to homosexualy began to soften the late 1950s, Dr Do Hodge found evince of the first Aborigal man publicly g out as gay.