THE BEST Washgton DC Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

Contents:

• TOP 10 BT GAY BARS NEAR WASHGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
• D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
• THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA
• WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE
• THE BT 10 GAY BARS NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE, WASHGTON, DC
• MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• THE BEST WASHGTON DC GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WASHGTON DC

TOP 10 BT GAY BARS NEAR WASHGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The natn's pal is home to a lively LGBTQ+ nightlife scene wh plenty of gay and lbian bars jt wag for you to jo on the fun. Larry’s Lounge is a gay neighborhood pub, wh always-affordable drks, solid happy hour specials, mouth-waterg pub fare (see: sweet potato tots) and one of the cy’s iendlit pats (you n brg your dog, too!).

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Number Ne to the btlg Logan Circle urty of -founr Ed Bailey, who helped DC’s gay nightlife scene to grow durg his days as a DJ.

Suated right the heart of Adams Man’s btlg 18th Street is Pchers, a gay sports bar, and A League of Her Own, the adjacent bar for lbian and queer women. In Febary 2016, the Washgton Bla noted an "unual flurry of activy" wh the openg of four new gay bars, the majory of which land the U Street/Shaw/Logan Circle area. Those spots and more sports bars, dance clubs, and cktail havens are all clud Eater's round up of the District's gay-iendlit bars and hangouts.

“The goal is to foc on the classic cktails, rather than jt vodka-sodas and rose Kennedys, as you may get at other gay bars, ” he says.

LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY

Licht Café is a reference to the spiratn om his go-to gay spot Mannheim, but also reflects his ial zy space. Kiki owner Keaton Fedak, the former general manager at nearby gay bar Dirty Goose, will expand Kiki to the next-door space that formerly hoed dive Dodge Cy.

In the past three years, all of the cy’s siar clubs have closed, cludg Cobalt, Secrets, DC Eagle, and the largt gay dance club D. Like most pals, Washgton DC offers a robt and dynamic gay district which ters to a range of different tast. Rather than one specific gay area, the scene Washgton has most pals, Washgton DC offers a robt and dynamic gay district which ters to a range of different tast.

Rather than one specific gay area, the scene Washgton has dispersed through different neighborhoods of the cy. DCs gayt street is 17th Street, and here you will fd a host of gay spots ready to open their doors. Word has that this place offers one of the bt gay atmospher town, and s monthly 80s dance party ‘The Breakfast Club Remix’ is a sure fire h wh the lols.

THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA

To the north of Logan Circle, U Street has unrgone a massive transformatn, and is now brimmg wh some of the bt gay bars and clubs Washgton.

WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE

Nellie’s Sports Bar was the first gay venue to open outsi of Dupont Circle, and has reached legendary stat thanks to s popular events cludg trivia and drag bgo. Across the street om Kiki and Dirty Goose, unaffiliated gay tablishment Nellie’s Sports Bar ma negative headl this June after a secury guard asslted a Black woman. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.

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He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.

“I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.

MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV

“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. Sat, Aug 26 · 2:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Bnch @ Freddie'sGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSat, Sep 2 · 2:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Bnch @ Freddie'sGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCFri, Sep 1 · 11:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Social @ The CommentaryGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSat, Sep 9 · 2:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Bnch @ Freddie'sGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSun, Sep 3 · 4:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Coffee & Conversatn @ as you name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCMon, Aug 28 · 10:30 PM UTCQueer Book ClubGroup name:The DC Center • Washgton, DCGroup name:The DC CenterWashgton, DCSun, Aug 27 · 10:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Dner & Conversatn @ FeriGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSun, Aug 27 · 3:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Bnch @ Puro GtoGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCFri, Aug 25 · 11:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Social @ DIK BarGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSun, Sep 3 · 10:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Dner & Conversatn @ FeriGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSat, Sep 9 · 11:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Gam @ The Board Room VAGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSun, Sep 10 · 12:30 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Bnch @ Kaldi's Social HoeGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCOnle EventWed, Aug 30 · 10:00 PM UTCLGBTQ Women, Femm, & Thems Virtual SocialGroup name:LGBTQ+ Virtual Programs and In-Person Events (NYC+LI) • Long Island Cy, NYGroup name:LGBTQ+ Virtual Programs and In-Person Events (NYC+LI)Long Island Cy, NYOnle EventWed, Aug 23 · 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, Sep 6 · 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, NYSat, Sep 16 · 2:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Bnch @ Freddie'sGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCOnle EventSat, Sep 2 · 2:00 PM UTCVIRTUAL: Queer Communy Book Club (QCBC)Group name:The LOFT: LGBTQ+ Communy Center • Whe Plas, NYGroup name:The LOFT: LGBTQ+ Communy CenterWhe Plas, NYFri, Sep 15 · 11:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Social @ Puro GtoGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCOnle EventSat, Aug 26 · 2:00 PM UTCVIRTUAL: Queer Communy Book Club (QCBC)Group name:The LOFT: LGBTQ+ Communy Center • Whe Plas, NYGroup name:The LOFT: LGBTQ+ Communy CenterWhe Plas, NYOnle EventThu, Aug 31 · 10:00 PM UTCVirtual: One Voice - LGBTQ+ HIV/AIDS Peer Support GroupGroup name:The LOFT: LGBTQ+ Communy Center • Whe Plas, NYGroup name:The LOFT: LGBTQ+ Communy CenterWhe Plas, NY.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Tour historic LGBTQ+ s, grab a drk at the bt gay and lbian bars the cy, rock out at Capal Pri and so much more. 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We are proud to say that we were jt named 2022 BEST GAY BAR IN DC the annual "Bt of DC" ntt the Washgton Bla newspaper. Rawls, a dited philanthropist, donat a portn of the tour fee to the Gay Men’s Chos of Washgton, DC.

Or pick a theme night at JR’s: the longtime gay bar do Retro Fridays, Sunday Fundays and even drag-themed trivia on Wednday nights. The LGBTQ+-iendly Embassy Row Hotel is a member of the Internatnal Gay & Lbian Travel Associatn and was named “one of the bt rooftop pools Ameri” by USA Today.

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The District's only 100 percent gay-owned brewery, 's also one of the newt addn to the cy’s lol craft beer scene. In the 1960s, the Metropolan Capal, a Black LGBTQ social club, anized hoe parti for Ain Amerin gay and lbian Washgtonians.

Faced wh discrimatory practic or outright rejectn by the Whe gay muny’s bars and clubs, Ain Amerins socialized hom, addg their own flavor to a long tradn the larger Ain Amerin muny. As John Eddy said, “We wanted to give the muny—total—gay as well as the straight—somethg different the cy, a place to e, relax, and party.

It was out of the way, a rintial, predomantly Ain Amerin neighborhood, far om the downtown Whe gay life.