THE 5 BEST Seattle Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023) - Tripadvisor

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• THE STRANGER'S GUI TO THE BT GAY CLUBS, SHOPS, AND BARS SEATTLE
• SEATTLE’S BT GAY CLUBS, SHOPS, AND BARS
• THE BT GAY BARS SEATTLE, WASHGTON
• AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE
• THE 5 BEST SEATTLE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SEATTLE
• THE BT GAY BARS SEATTLE, WASHGTON
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• SEATTLE’S BT GAY CLUBS, SHOPS, AND BARS

THE STRANGER'S GUI TO THE BT GAY CLUBS, SHOPS, AND BARS SEATTLE

Pony is gay famo. This isn’t a subtle place: Imag of nu gay people are plastered on the walls, papier-mâchéd male parts hang om the ceilgs, vtage smut plays off VHS tap, and there’s a suggtive hole the bathroom. They’re the same owners of Thumper’s (RIP), a former “piano bar for gay daddi tweed ats, ” and that vibe has spirually rried over to Unn.

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SEATTLE’S BT GAY CLUBS, SHOPS, AND BARS

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THE BT GAY BARS SEATTLE, WASHGTON

Though there are gay people and gay bs throughout Seattle, Capol Hill is tradnally the gay neighborhood, and ’s where you’ll fd most of the gay bars, the cy’s only lbian bar, and a few zany crosswalks pated the lors of the rabow. The only gay bar Seattle wh an outdoor fire p also has fantastic bartenrs, clever DJs, and vtage gay porn (i. This bar is tryg to do somethg unique by beg a bar for the entire queer muny—cludg trans folks, nonbary people, lbians, and good-old fashned gay men.

Once a stalwart ttament to endurg gayns, Neighbours the days wel more and more bachelorette parti. Three floors of gay bar wh dancg up top, R Place also hosts live drag shows, RuPl's Drag Race viewg parti, and karaoke (on Sundays, Mondays, and Tudays at 9 p. Seattle Men Leather meet at the Cuff, and lots of gay sports teams have their social functns there.

The bt night to vis this gay bar is the first Saturday of the month—kk night. This is the only gay bar s vicy, over near the Montlake cut. This is North Seattle’s gay bar—the clost gay bar to the Universy of Washgton, the Ballard Locks, or Northgate.

AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE

Wt Seattle is where gay folks go to retire, and this laid-back bar epomiz the neighborhood's laid-back spir. This Whe Center gay bar is lumberjack-themed.

Vibrators on display, class on everythg om rope bondage to strap-ons to erotic massage, and a iendly staff, Babeland is perfectly sued to women who date women—but gay guys, straight upl, and folks across the spectm are also wele. Pony has an outdoor fire p, fantastic bartenrs, clever DJs, and vtage gay porn (i.

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

This is North Seattle’s gay bar and the clost gay bar to the Universy of Washgton. This Whe Center gay bar is lumber-jack-themed. This bar is tryg to do somethg unique by beg a bar for the entire queer muny—cludg trans folks, nonbary people, lbians, and good-old-fashned gay men.

The bt night to vis this gay bar is a theme night—fetish night, leather night, unrwear night. CC's also hosts the Seattle GAYmers on Wednday and whiskey nights on Thursdays.

This gay bar and cktail lounge om gay-bar-scene-dream-team Steve Nyman and Nathan Benedict (former owners of Insi Passage and Thumper’s) and Mark Engelmann (former manager of C. As one of the most gay-iendly ci the U.

THE BT GAY BARS SEATTLE, WASHGTON

S., parg down Seattle’s gay bars to the bt on is not an easy task.

Whether you’re gay, lbian, queer, trans, or simply an ally, here are some plac worth your time. Wh weekly karaoke on Tudays and happy hour “All Ne” on Wedndays, this gay dive bar offers a small dance floor and an outdoor pat open year-round thanks to a retractable roof and a fire p. Diel As the name impli, this gay bar has a tck theme, which extends to the menu wh optns such as “MACK” & chee, Mozzarella stick-shift, and Tcker Clucker & i.

The Cuff Complex The Cuff is a nightclub for gay men and ters to everyone om fai (specifilly the 21+ members) to fetish groups.

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” Crcent Lounge This straightforward LGBT bar is a great neighborhood bar where “gay” n also be terpreted to mean “happy”—bee their ctomers are always jt that.

Madison Pub One of the most relaxed gay bars town, Madison Pub offers a full bar to go wh your game of pool or darts while you rock out to some jebox jams. ’s is a gay bar that offers pub gb, a pat, and cheap drks. At the time, the queer bars I pass are stg silent and shuttered: Pony, whose signage announced 2014 to a changg neighborhood, “This is a very gay bar.

SEATTLE’S BT GAY CLUBS, SHOPS, AND BARS

I cut through Cal Anrson Park, named after Washgton state’s first openly gay legislator. As spac close or relote search of cheaper rent, there is an opportuny to rethk both the nature of queer space and the boundari of Seattle’s gayborhood.

My two gay bt iends and I were dner regulars at the Broadway Grill; hnted mortuary-turned-gay-bar Chapel; and danced our hearts out at club and drag performance venue R Place, where I always felt wele, both before and after I me out as queer and genr-expansive. Its five female founrs chose the space for s large wdows, a revolutnary move durg a time when “gay bars were more like speakeasi, ” as Manng told the Seattle Channel, hoed dark, hidn spac. But vlence isn’t the only threat to the gayborhood.

“When Capol Hill first started gentrifyg, I’d be [workg the] door, and people would ask, ‘Why are there so many gay bars here? The gayborhood of my youth was punk-rock and unashamedly queer, a rehg ntrast to the homogenized culture and merce that domated downtown and the suburbs. Dpe the “myth of gay affluence, ” LGBTQ people face higher rat of poverty than their cisgenred, heterosexual peers, along wh barriers to social servic and health re.