The 50 Greatt Gay Bars the World

Contents:

• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• D.C.’S BIGGT GAY NIGHTCLUB IS SET TO CLOSE, BUT A NEW ITERATN MAY REPLACE IT
• THE BT GAY CLUBS MIAMI FOR A NIGHT OUT WH THE BOYS
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

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. 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.

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? 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. 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.

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. It was the se of an early gay-liberatn “sip ” 1966, years before Stonewall, and has been a low-key haven ever sce, wh a diverse clientele, a small menu, classic cktails, and an extensive (and packed) 4:00-7:00 happy hour.

THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI

The origal was burned down an anti-gay hate-crime a few years back, but the revival has jt opened across the street and is bigger and better, wh a new performance space.

CourtyWashgton DC: TraIn a town where n feel like every other bar is crawlg wh Capol Hill staffers lookg to talk shop, Tra is the rare, glorly gay dive where absolutely everyone is wele to jt kick back. ”Acrdg to Nicholls, the yet unnamed club will have two levels and two dance floors, along wh a kchen, pat, and state of the art sound and LED also stat that the club will be gay, not gay iendly.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

The promise of the biggt gay dance club the USA is also not so much reference to square footage, but more that will be the biggt gay dance experience the TIMES ma the nnectn between Roc’s WeHo and the new “mega” club g to the Rage space. A photo posted on the Gay Vtage Los Angel for Men Facebook group nfirmed that Lance Bass, of NSYNC boyband fame signed a lease and he was hand the keys to the former Rage Nightclub space loted at 8911 Santa Moni Boulevard. Facebook screen grab – (L-R) Lance Bass, a Roc’s bs partner, John Cole and Monte OverstreetThere have been numero mors surroundg the empty Rage Nightclub space on 8911 Santa Moni Boulevard sce the legendary gay dance club closed permanently back September of last year after beg open for 37 years.

D.C.’S BIGGT GAY NIGHTCLUB IS SET TO CLOSE, BUT A NEW ITERATN MAY REPLACE IT

When Town Danceboutique, the District’s largt LGBTQ nightclub, announced on June 27 that would be shuttg s doors next summer after a bs, gay men across D. Hudson lls the club an “anchor, ” but says that he don’t see s closure as “the start of some sort of panmic of gay bars and clubs beg phed out by velopment. 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.

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.

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

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. ” 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. The openly gay bar is a relatively new addn to the social space scene, and beme que mon que quickly, perhaps, some say, too, most straight folks have ltle fear of homosexualy, and gay bars bee their jot du jour--to the horror of many men and women who wish they still had their sacred space ee of bachelorette parti (read Drew Droege's take on this phenomenon).

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While we don't thk the battle of the dance floor will be won anytime soon (and probably shouldn't even be fought), gay bars, even the age of social tegratn and onle muni, rema an tegral space for LGBT muni the world over.