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Contents:

• FEEL AT HOME AT THE BT GAY NEIGHBORHOODS SYDNEY
• GAY SNAS SYDNEY
• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN SYDNEY
• GAY NEIGHBORHOOD? - SYDNEY FOM
• GAY SYDNEY HOTELS
• SYDNEY: GAY & LBIAN TRAVELLERS
• CANBERRA, NOT SYDNEY, IS THE GAY AND LBIAN PAL OF ATRALIA
• GAY SYDNEY · MID-RANGE + BUDGET HOTELS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SYDNEY

FEEL AT HOME AT THE BT GAY NEIGHBORHOODS SYDNEY

Sydney has a thrivg gay scene and plays host to one of the world’s bt pri events: Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras. There are a range of gay areas (or “gayborhoods”) Sydney where the muny ngregat at amazg gay bars and clubs, as well as at more laid-back ffee ho and rtrants. Darlghurst is one of Sydney’s ma gay neighborhoods and, back 2016, almost one five upl were men same-sex relatnships.

GAY SNAS SYDNEY

It’s home to Oxford Street, the center of Sydney’s gay scene wh clubs, bars and f n by and for Sydney’s LGBTQIA+ muny. Today, even though you n fd gay hotspots throughout the cy, Oxford Street remas a major hub for LGBTQIA+ activy and hosts Sydney’s famo Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, ually held every March on Oxford Street.

The ADGE Apartment Sydney is only around five mut om some of Darlghurst’s bt gay neighborhoods and venu and has fully equipped apartments wh private balni and an excellent on-se rtrant. Potts Pot has historilly been Darlghurst’s ma petn when to Sydney’s gay scene and this harborsi suburb is known for s bnch, boutique shoppg and cuttg-edge street fashn.

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

It also clus part of Kgs Cross, a non-official suburb that was historilly the center of Sydney’s nightlife and home to one of Sydney’s earlit gay bars, the Bottom’s Up Bar. Bloody Mary’s is an excellent gay-iendly rtrant Potts Pot’s inic Gazebo Buildg wh both door and outdoor areas.

TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN SYDNEY

If you stay here you’ll be close to the harbor, Sydney’s CBD and many other gay districts, cludg Potts Pot and Darlghurst. Where Darlghurst has Oxford Street, and Elizabeth Bay and Potts Pot have Kg’s Cross, Surry Hills has Crown Street, a laid-back, village-que strip where you n fd vyl rerd shops, upsle eateri and thrivg gay bars all close to one another. The Berford Hotel on Bourke Street was once solely a gay club and today ’s still very popular wh LGBTQIA+ clientele.

The nsy of gay rints drops off after Potts Pot but there are still thrivg gay muni neighborhoods like Redfern, which has the fifth-hight proportn of gay upl Atralia (as of 2016).

Another excellent gay neighborhood on the CBD’s doorstep is Chippendale, a betiful suburb wh a thrivg arts scene.

GAY NEIGHBORHOOD? - SYDNEY FOM

The suburbs of Newtown and Erskeville are popular wh both gay men and lbians wh the seventh-hight proportn of male same-sex upl and the send-hight proportn of female same-sex upl Atralia, as of 2016. It’s about seven mut om The Bank and jt down the street om The Imperial Erskeville, so you’ll never be far om some of the area’s bt gay venu. 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.

Cosmopolan Sydney has long been one of the world’s favore vatn statns, and s vibrant gay culture mak an LGBT hotspot too. So, was no surprise that many of the gay hotels Sydney we found, as well as the gay nightlife, were here.

If that wasn’t enough, the cy also has gay-favore nudist beach and the amazg annual Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para. The 60s-spired bar was a great place for pre-boozg cktails before headg out to explore Sydney’s gay scene.

GAY SYDNEY HOTELS

One of the top gay hotels Sydney, Atralia, the property is the CBD, close to historic ernment buildgs on Macquarie Street. The Chifley Plaza shoppg center, wh s upsle shops and rtrants, is a 2-mute walk om the hotel, while Oxford Street’s gay bars are a half-hour b ri away.

The fact that Novotel Sydney Central puts up ratns to celebrate the annual Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras shows why we picked this Sydney acmodatn. If you’re the mood to cise, you only need a uple of mut to walk to the men-only Tra Club Sydney, a popular gay bar and nightclub. When we were searchg for value-for-money gay acmodatn Sydney, we stumbled upon the lightfully pleasant DeVere Hotel.

Undoubtedly, among the top gay hotels Sydney, Atralia, is the Pullman Sydney Hy Park, which boasts everythg that a grand hotel uld offer. The five-star Pullman Sydney Hy Park Hotel overlooks s namake park and is an easy walk om Oxford Street’s famo gay bars and nightclubs.

SYDNEY: GAY & LBIAN TRAVELLERS

Big Hostel is the gay-centric Surry Hills suburb the CBD, jt a few mut om the 19th-century Belmont Park. This popular gay nightclub is a mere 14-mute walk om the hotel and is known for outrageo drag performanc and lively DJ sets. The 24-hour room service wh lol T2 teas and plimentary ffee pods picked up after a big night out at the cy’s gay scene.

Fally, s lotn and proximy to Oxford Street make QT Sydney among the most popular luxury gay hotels Sydney, Atralia. The Sydney-based anizatn Campaign Agast Moral Persecutn (CAMP) was stmental galvanizg Atralia’s early gay rights movement the 1970s.

Stonewall Hotel – This is actually not a hotel, but one of Sydney’s most happeng gay clubs holdg themed events throughout the week. Universal Sydney – Laser lights, spectacular shows, multiple dance floors, and pulsatg DJ sets greet revelers at this double-cker gay bar on Oxford Street.

CANBERRA, NOT SYDNEY, IS THE GAY AND LBIAN PAL OF ATRALIA

Like many ci, our gay scene has died off the last 20 years, wh the tyrannil lockouts regime not at all helpg. There are 2 areas where you'll fd gay-iendly pubs and late night bars/clubs: Oxford St and Newtown/Erskeville. Also, one of Sydney's most prtig and biggt venu (The Ivy) has jt gone gay on Saturday nights for Melbourne-based party 'Poof Doof'.

Murray Rose Pool and North Bondi are overn by homos; if you want somethg a ltle spicier there are stunng 2 gay nu beach as well. In more recent years, those reputatns have begun to fa and the endurg meangs of the “gaybourhood” have e to qutn. But what each of the plac reprents is the centraly of urban space to the emergence of visible, “out and proud” lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer inti and muni.

GAY SYDNEY · MID-RANGE + BUDGET HOTELS

In the years after the send world war, many gay men Sydney socialised CBD hotels, cludg the Hotel Atralia. By the begng of the 1980s, Oxford Street was home to a strg of bars, clubs, snas and f and had bee known as Sydney’s gay “Goln Mile”.

The homosexual men socialisg 1950s CBD hotels were required to do so wh discretn – the nsequenc of disvery uld be vastatg. As more venu were opened along the Goln Mile, the street self beme a gay space, as did the surroundg neighbourhoods where LGBTQ people – particularly gay men – ma hom the terrac and apartments of Darlghurst and Paddgton.

It was the most fabulo place I’d ever been my life … It’s full of gay people and they’re all drsed to the n.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SYDNEY

The gay muny was certaly not ee om sexism, racism and transphobia, meang that some wh the LGBTQ muny were granted far easier accs to the spac than others.

Ined, although Goln Mile-era Oxford Street clud venu popular wh lbians, cludg the women-only bar Ruby Reds, the surroundg neighbourhood was more intifiably gay than lbian.

In 1983 gay publin Barry Cecchi took over the Milton Hotel on Newtown’s Kg Street, renamed Cecchi’s and lnched as the area’s first gay venue. Cecchi told the Sydney Morng Herald 1984 that gays were leavg “the scene” of Oxford Street lookg for a “more smopolan mix” Newtown. Keep Newtown Weird and Safe is an annual muny ftival that began 2016 rponse to homophobic and transphobic vlence.