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Contents:

• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• XL BAR - GAY CLUB
• THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
• XL CLUB, GAY SNA TAIPEI
• THE 10 BEST LISBON GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LISBON
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

ADVERTISEMENTBoî Fenstermacher for The New York TimMarch 7, 2012IT’S been a while sce New York weled a large new gay venue to s club roster. In late January, a triumvirate of gay night-life doyens — John Blair, Beto Sutter and a relative newer, Brandon Voss — opened XL at the far end of Wt 42nd Street.

It is a verable one-stop shop for gay men of var bookg a different party, D.

XL BAR - GAY CLUB

And is suated at the jt opened “gay urban rort” OUT NYC, so that even after jad New Yorkers thk has lost s lter, there will still be plenty of tourists SPACE Not que verno enough to be a mega-club but too big to be jt a bar, the jet-black space has a lounge up ont, wh tabl that are cleared away for late-night dancg. The word “gay” speaks to our abily to do exactly that.

THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON

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.

XL CLUB, GAY SNA TAIPEI

—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. 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?

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

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. 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. 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.

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

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 NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY

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

The lol gay dart league meets here, people gather to watch sports (!