THE BEST Riga Regn Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

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• THE BEST RIGA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS RIGA
• GAY RIGA
• THE BEST RIGA REGN GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS RIGA REGN
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY BARS/NIGHTCLUBS - RIGA FOM
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS RIGA
• WHAT THE MOST SORDID RSIAN GAY BAR RIGA TGHT ME ABOUT INTY POLICS
• RIGA GAY MAP
• RIGA GAY CISE CLUBS
• RIGA GAY SNAS
• GAY LATVIA TRAVEL GUI
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THE BEST RIGA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS RIGA

Gay Riga.

Riga isn’t the most gay-iendly statn this rner of Europe, but ’s also not the worst we’ve seen. A proper gay and LGBTQ club is available, but if you’re terted cisg bars, gay snas or erotic cemas then vis our Adult entertament sectn. Bars & Clubs • Gay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissTop ways to experience nearby attractnsSee what travelers are saygOne for the weekendsI went wh a iend on a Thursday night and was quiet wh only 4 others there.

Drks a b pricey, but this is ually the se the gay bars.

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I’m om Helski where homosexualy is ok, I hope Latvia’s suatn improv the future! Due to lack of other gay bars. Really feel this place giv Gay people a bad name.

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Vised March 2020Traveled wh iendsWrten May 9, 2020Super gay clubThe bt gay club/ ar Baltic. Read our transparency report to learn 2019 • FriendsThe bt gay club/ ar Baltic. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. As we kicked off our #mygaypri mpaign this summer to promote Gay Pri ci worldwi, Riga beme an unual top choice. ” This was my first imprsn of the gay-iendls of Riga and wasn’t terrible, but wasn’t great.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Later the same day I was off to meet my tour gui along wh other #mygaypri team members, fellow travel blogger Adam om Travels of Adam and Jamie om Gay Star News, our media partner for the mpaign.

GAY BARS/NIGHTCLUBS - RIGA FOM

That night was time to check out the gay scene startg wh Goln, one of Riga’s two gay bars.

Riga’s other gay bar is XXL.

The same owners even operate a small gay hotel if that’s your kd of thg.

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I don’t re if you are a gay untry sger or not.

After our quick exposure to this charmg and vg Latvian cy, I n easily see as a great, unforeen statn for gay travelers. It’s not nearly as gay-iendly as s Wtern European neighbors, but ’s makg stris that directn and EuroPri helped to take another step. The gays n seek out their own the gay bars and also feel fortable, while beg somewhat ut, enjoyg all the cy has to offer to all s visors, gays and straights alike.

WHAT THE MOST SORDID RSIAN GAY BAR RIGA TGHT ME ABOUT INTY POLICS

Jet aga the doorman (y the bald guy is still there) at Club Jt said was a private gay club:) I've been Riga several tim. Otherwise we uld not get bee of the private gay club gog on.

If was a private gay club, why should we book a table for €150? Re: Gay bars/nightclubs.

It is open every day, but gay people go out here only on weekends, if you happen to vis the middle of the week fet about gay life and go out the cy where you will be visg for weekend. Another club is Purvs () is olr, a ltle b further away om the Old Town, has a large proportn of hjeetrosexual people and que homophobic staff, but I was there 3 years ago last time so I dont know. Goln Bar is a new place - typilly for Riga is unofficial or simply gay iendly.

RIGA GAY MAP

The only place where you n go durg the day Riga for gays.

There is also nice gay sna - next to XXL club. We have also gayhotel.

RIGA GAY CISE CLUBS

Aga next to XXL club ont of gay sna. BTW, for ctomers of gayhotel gaysna is for ee.

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In summer there are also 2 gay beach easy to reach by muter tras.

Gay and Gay-iendly Hotels RigaHotel Jt★ 4. Three Gay Pris ago, I was Riga, Latvia.

But I was often distracted by plans of my own, plans that I uld never reveal to my grandparents: to get to know the gay bars Riga. I me across a femist anarchist punk named Mara, who agreed to acpany me to one or all of the cy’s gay bars—a bar lled Purvs, meang “swamp” Latvian, advertised as a club for "gejiem, lbietēm, biseksuāļiem, transvtītiem. ” I vised another of the cy’s gay bars, Goln, on the followg my grandparents died, I didn’t return to Riga until the summer of 2015, when VICE Magaze (prt, RIP) enlisted me to report on EuroPri Riga 2015—the first time the event’s 24-year history that would take place a post-Soviet natn.

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Sce then Latvia’s “embattled gay rights movement, ” “sperate for support and visibily, ” had worked tirelsly to brg EuroPri to Riga, hopg “that an event of [that] sle would brg ternatnal attentn to this issue. When I still thought gay bars were utopian spac filled wh magil queer people.

The experience had given me a new angle on gay life: where I ed to thk lbian love was the bt love, and lbian people the bt people, I was now certa that lbians were fact the absolute worst. Yup, lbians were the sickt and the feelg was ma more terrible by the legalizatn of gay marriage.

As John Waters said, “I always thought the privilege of beg gay is that we don’t have to get married or go to the Army. I wanted to ask people about what this large-sle Pri meant to them; to get to this qutn, seemed important that I first gather how they intified: “bi-romantic/homo-sexual, ” said a red-haired femme, who was also a volunteer. “I ed to sleep wh women but am sleepg wh men right now;” “gay onle, straight at my job.

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It took me a while to figure out that a lot of the disfort I was feelg was my night I went on a ltle adventure wh the photographer for the story to XXL, a club that had been scribed to me as the most sordid and the most Rsian of the gay clubs Riga. I uldn’t thk of a sgle gay male iend the US who would talk about women this way.

And how nicely did that narrative of static sexualy plement homophobia? 90% of the populatn was born straight, 10% was born gay, and that was that.

G was a nstctn worker short shorts, an army p and a thick handlebar motache—straight out of a gay porno om the 1970s. He would fd me olr gay men to talk to, men wh lns of tertg stori about beg gay durg the Soviet Unn, stori that were irrelevant to my task at hand.