THE 10 BEST Barcelona Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

Contents:

• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• THE BT GAY CLUBS MIAMI FOR A NIGHT OUT WH THE BOYS
• THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• THE 10 BEST PARIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PARIS
• GAY NIGHTLIFE COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLA: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• THE 5 BEST LAS VEGAS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LAS VEGAS
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• THE 10 BEST BARCELONA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS BARCELONA
• ‘LAST CALL’ TE STORY: HBO DOC IS ABOUT THE SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS, WHO TARGETED MANHATTAN’S GAY BARS

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.

THE BT GAY CLUBS MIAMI FOR A NIGHT OUT WH THE BOYS

” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor.

“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.

THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI

” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. ” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.

The area is also known for s ncentratn of bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots – all of which are nsired sful Islam. Once home to a rabow of LGBTQ-iendly loung, bars and clubs, many of Miami’s most pendable gay clubs like Magnum, Mova and Sre are sadly no more. We might be experiencg an extend drought of gay clubs and bars Miami, but there’s plenty of actn to be had if you know where to fd .

So, whout further adi: Our roundup of the bt gay clubs Miami right now. Explicly nceived as a haven for gay men, was known for s youthful clientele, celebry patrons, and notorly hedonistic vibe; beme even more of a draw wh the openg of “The Backlot, ” an adjacent performance venue that featured some of the biggt “A-list” acts of the era.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

“Stt Forb’ visn was to have a place for gay whe men only, ” Saltarelli tells . Built on stunng, powerful mil performanc and peppered wh surprisg and revelatory historil terpretatn – as well as edic banter and form-transcennt dience teractn – wove a narrative piled om “between the l” of monly-held history, exposg thgs like the sual bigotry at the heart of many of Ameri’s earlit popular songs and the misogyny and homophobia that has ntued to permeate s mic until the prent day; an hour was dited to each , wh Mac cked out an elaborate new era-specific stume – signed by longtime llaborator Mache Dazzle and rporatg humoro referenc to Amerin life each of the 24 s vered the show – for each one; each hour, one of 24 onstage micians would part the stage, until Mac, alone and unacpanied except for a ulele, was left alone to perform origal songs for the fal hour.

The word “gay” speaks to our abily to do exactly that. The word “gay” lls to md our special knack for fdg the light the darkns, for buildg the dance floor off to the si of the cel world. Let’s take a look at some of the bt gay bars Ameri, om the open-air, vil-may-re spac Wt Hollywood to the neighborhood pub downtown St.

The olst gay bar North Carola (found 1976) draws every tegory and mographic. The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur. —Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

—Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars. It’s gay Cheers. It feels like everythg a gay bar should be.

THE 10 BEST PARIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PARIS

When the bar fally reopened Sprg 2022, an entire borough’s worth of gays celebrated by floodg the new back pat all summer and Gger’s has been crowd wh queers ever sce. —Diana HubbellBoston: Club CafeHow is Boston’s stalwart gay bar/rtrant/performance space inic?

It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria. It gave the boys a place to gather the ‘80s, the first outpost that helped tablish the South End as the Boston gayborhood.

GAY NIGHTLIFE COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLA: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

It brought the gay and straight muni together the ‘90s wh clever baret programmg. But perhaps most signifintly, gave the gay muny of Boston somethg sperately need: visibily. While other gay bars of the time were basements or board up, Club Cafe faced by Columb Avenue wh floor to ceilg wdows.

THE 5 BEST LAS VEGAS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LAS VEGAS

Big Chicks serv a diverse crowd— ’s young, ’s old, ’s one of the only plac you’ll see gay men and lbians together!

—Dave HolmCourtyChigo: Carol’s Pub Not every gay bar is explicly a gay bar.

They jt have major gay vib and lots of queer upl makg out the bathroom. The legendary hoeband, Diamondback, has a 25, 000-song repertoire and a boot llectn that uld make a gay wboy cry. While you won’t fd any Pri flags at Farraguts, you will undoubtedly hear Cele Dn and Melissa Etheri blarg om the bar’s dty, old jebox and, hontly, isn’t that jt as gay?

THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM

CourtyDallas: Round-Up SaloonEqual parts wboy boots and dis ball, Round Up Saloon opened 42 years ago Dallas as a gay untry wtern dance hall. Thanks to Perez-Gallardo and their team, gay people who love the outdoors (most lbians) now have a iendly place to unwd after a hike. Billed as Wt Virgia's olst gay bar, the venue regularly brgs some of the biggt queer performg artists the game right now.

Live out your Brokeback Mounta fantasi at this verno club, where wboy stum are not nsired drag, and le dancg is not an explic exprsn of homophobia. The lol gay dart league meets here, people gather to watch sports (!

A gay gatherg spot sce 1939, and gay bar sce 1963, and the Bar Complex sce the 80s, s unassumg exterr beli a triple-threat treat of lounge, performance space, and a mirrored dance club reportedly moled after Stud 54. ) The glorly lively bar and rtrant scene is enhanced by a black box theater downstairs, where farcil plays, lbian standup, and gay dance troup reign.

THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY

Honey’s is sentially a sexy, gay speakeasy wh a DJ booth where queers of all strip n dance their hearts out until 2 am. TwistWhat you want om a gay club, if you ask , is optns. Jt a uple of blocks om the beach, Twist brgs the whole breadth of the Miami gay world together to dance and flirt and keep movg.

THE 10 BEST BARCELONA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS BARCELONA

CourtyIndianapolis: English IvyEnglish Ivy advertis self as an “LGBTQ+-enthed” “gay-therg place” and that is not an overstatement. If you want to get away om the typil scene at fellow gay bars Olly’s and Gregs Our Place, English Ivy is an ial place to meet iends: mature enough for a proper Ladi Lunch (or bnch or dner. But this is Nashville we’re talkg about so the gays who perform at Lipstick Lounge aren’t your average karaoke queens.

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They are stars the makg and their rendn of Cele Dn’s “It’s All Comg Back to Me Now” will shatter your pt glass and break your ltle, gay heart. It’s not a gay bar the tradnal sense, but a place where traed pianists play selectns om Broadway shows and all of the drama teachers and mil theater majors of the tri-state area nverge to sg along.

Now that we mentn , perhaps Marie’s Crisis is a gay bar the most tradnal sense. Oddly Enough: bee not every gay n stay up until 3 AM. Juli’ is Greenwich Village’s olst bar and New York’s olst gay bar, havg attracted gay clientele sce the 1950s.