LGBTQ+ Amsterdam – 14 Bt Gay Bars and Clubs for a Night Out

Contents:

• 4MEN GAY CEMA
• ADONIS GAY CEMA
• GAY CLUBS AMSTERDAM
• LGBTQ+ AMSTERDAM – THE 14 BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM
• TOO GAY AMSTERDAM?

4MEN GAY CEMA

Loted a buildg that dat om 1882, the 4Men Gay Cema is a gay adult cema loted close to Amsterdam’s male railway Central Statn. Loted the heart of Amsterdam’s ‘red light’ district on what is nsired the gay street, the Adonis Gay Cema has been operatg sce the early 1990’s. The olst, existg more than 25 years, recently thoroughly renovated, gay sex shop and cema.

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ADONIS GAY CEMA

In dog so, the selectn of movi shown is meant to reflect the diversy of the LGBTQ+ muny, wh lbian, gay and queer performers.

The once flamboyant barber Pat Psenbarger, formerly the undisputed star of gay life a small Oh, USA town, is languishg a retirement home. Followg the example of Rupert Knard, father of the first Black and gay superhero, LGBTQ+ thors are creatg novative, vastatg and profound works to break all taboos. Durg the year, you also get a disunt on tickets for Gay Night at Het Ketelhuis, and sometim other ftivals and events we operate wh.

GAY CLUBS AMSTERDAM

After some rt, the leather muny out to play at Amsterdam Leather Pri late the munyImage om Henri BlommersIn terms of march and activism, the Homomonument by the Wterkerk is often one of the central meetg pots for the LGBTQIA+ muny Amsterdam.

Next to the monument, you'll also fd Pk Pot, Amsterdam's official LGBTQI+ rmatn ksk, which provis rmatn about the Homomonument and general rmatn on LGBTQI+ servic, groups and rmatn centr Amsterdam.

Many of those "gay" guys will sudnly bee "straight" as soon as s know there is a gal on the premise.

LGBTQ+ AMSTERDAM – THE 14 BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS

Many clubs are exclively gay, while other clubs host regular or semi-regular gay nights.

The list here is a selectn of the bt gay clubs Amsterdam has to offer, so your night on the town n be spent at jt the right spot. Another mastay gay club Amsterdam, De Tt has been around sce the 80s and has always been a scene favoure thanks to s non-mercial approach. This relatively mastream club the heart of the Amsterdam gay district of Reguliersdwarsstraat attracts a young crowd and is welg of straight visors.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

While is not a dited gay bar, on the first Saturday of every send month Occii plays host to Spellbound, the cy's most beloved unrground gay dance party. Wave the gay flag for Reguliersdwarsstraat, a street of trendy, lourful, LGBTQ bars Amsterdam, Holland | © Jason Bryan / Alamy. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

TOO GAY AMSTERDAM?

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters.

In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet. But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends. Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory.

But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay. In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends.