Origally lled Happs 42 until 2019, when changed to HUNTbar, this small spot to om the owners of the former unrground gay bastn Shanghai Stud. Unlike that dungeon of pleasure, Happs 42 go for a morn chic style wh red lightg and a round bar the ma room that's excellent for throwg provotive glanc to whatever eye ndy may be across om you. On Fridays and Saturdays, the place fills up wh a mix of foreigners and lols chattg at the bar, dancg to gay-tun on the small dance floor, or jt chillg at the tabl. They have an open mic night on Thursdays and also host muny events om time to time.
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[THE LIST]: GAY BARS IN SHANGHAI
Cha’s LGBTQ muny has long had to al wh not only societal prejudice but also prsure om the state: censorship, surveillance and timidatn, at tim even tentn by police. Durg the early 2000s, though, looked like thgs might be changg. Gay clubs flourished big ci and muny groups sprang up to offer social servic. The days, the feelg has fad. While ’s difficult to pot to any direct crackdown, the realy is that over the past ’s bee to * lgbt shanghai *
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SHANGHAI GAY PRI
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Homosexualy was crimalized 1997, but there are no explic legal protectns agast discrimatn based on sexual orientatn or genr inty. Gay: 同志 (tongzhi) the most monly ed of the many Che terms for the “G” LGBTQ+.
For ntext throughout the remar of this article, jt know that Luc 390 is the cy’s most popular gay nightclub, and Roxie is the cy’s most popular (read: only) lbian bar/club. The “Gayborhood”. Though this is changg more and more recent years, there’s a several block strip Changng district around Panyu Lu and Fahuazhen Lu that has a reputatn as Shanghai’s “gayborhood” thanks to s beg the lotn of almost all the cy’s major LGBTQ+ bars and clubs.
Cha has the world’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) populatn. This study asssed the discrimatn experienced by LGBT dividuals Cha a prehensive way, verg discrimatn perpetrated by fay, media, medil servic, relig muni, schools, social servic, and the workplace. The current study volved a natnal survey of 31 provc and tonomo regns. Discrimatn was measured both terms of heterosexual participants’ attus towards LGBT dividuals, and LGBT participants’ self-perceived discrimatn. Pearson rrelatn analysis was performed to exame the difference between heterosexual participants’ attus towards LGBT dividuals and LGBT participants’ self-perceived discrimatn. Lear regrsn was ed to vtigate the associatn between gross domtic product per pa and discrimatn. Among 29,125 participants, 2066 (7.1%) intified as lbian, 9491 (32.6%) as gay, 3441 (11.8%) as bisexual, 3195 (11.0%) as transgenr, and 10,932 (37.5%) as heterosexual. Heterosexual people were generally iendly towards the LGBT muny wh a mean sre of 21.9 (SD = 2.7, total sle sre = 100) and the grand averaged sre of self-perceived discrimatn by LGBT participants was 49.9 (SD = 2.5). Self-perceived discrimatn om fay and social servic is particularly severe. We created a seri of provcial level choropleth maps showg heterosexual participants’ acceptance towards the LGBT muny, and self-perceived discrimatn reported by members of the LGBT muny. We found that a higher level of enomic velopment provc was associated wh a crease discrimatn, and we intified that every 100 thoand RMB crease per pa GDP lead to a 6.4% crease discrimatory events perpetrated by heterosexuals. Che LGBT groups nsistently experience discrimatn var aspects of their daily liv. The prevalence of this discrimatn is associated wh the enomic velopment of the provce which occurs. In orr to rce discrimatn, is important for future studi to disver the unrlyg reasons for discrimatn agast LGBT dividuals Cha. * lgbt shanghai *
Newer spots have cropped up elsewhere the cy recent years, and lbian bar Roxie is a pletely different neighborhood north Jg’an, but the few blocks rema the epicenter of Shanghai gay nightlife. Luc 390 will have a performance or two peppered throughout the night nearly every weekend, while other gay bars like Hunt, Roxie and newer SAOxHAUS, along wh recurrg queer parti like Msa, also regularly showse performers. The are signifintly more expensive than a night out at the gay bars and n n you as much as 300–400rmb, but n be worth the ocsnal splurge for the productn valu and the variety show experience, where you n drk several hours of fierce performanc wh different genr of drag rather than a sttered lip sync here and there at the club.
Here's what's out there for gay bars Shanghai. Cocktails and cise ntrol the cy's small but rilient gay nightlife scene. * lgbt shanghai *
Many of the gay bars, cludg HUNT and Luc, are safe, welg spac for newbie queens and kgs to show up drag for parti and special events, which may eventually lead to an ocsnal gig lip-syncg or hostg an event. Grdr, which is back unr Amerin ownership after s brief stt wh a Beijg-based pany that lnched 1, 000 thk piec about data privacy, is available, along wh all the other major Wtern gay apps om Jack’d and Scff to Hor and Growlr. The most popular Che gay datg app by a large marg is Blued, which has 24 ln ers Cha as of 2020.
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Rice Bar – Rice Bar has been around for over 10 years and is one of the few gay bars Shanghai that’s appropriate for a zy one-on-one drk rather than a long sweaty night on the dance floor. Il Vo – Directly across the street om Kartel, Il Vo is a iendlier, zier and much gayer versn of that famoly sloppy we bar. Rik – For the sporty gays, the send venue om the people behd Roxie is a perfectly mpy neon-l roller rk bar.
There are many more rourc based Shanghai for gay, lbian, bi, trans and queer dividuals, but bee the tablishments often exist a grey area, listg them all out uld do more harm than good.