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Contents:
- THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS SGAPORE
- BT GAY CLUBS SGAPORE
- 3 BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS SGAPORE
- HAPPY (SGAPORE GAY DIS)
- NICHE (SGAPORE GAY DIS)
- SGAPORE GAY TRAVEL
- THE BEST SGAPORE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SGAPORE
- SGAPORE GAY BARS
- SGAPORE GAY VENU: NTEMPORARY
- SGAPORE PUBLIC GAY PARTI
- GAY DIS NIGHTS[]
THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS SGAPORE
Full of upbeat dance mic and bold drag shows, here are the bt gay bars and nightclubs for all you LGBTQ party animals * singapore gay disco *
While male homosexual sex remas illegal Sgapore, homosexualy is openly tolerated, as per Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong’s parliamentary speech 2007: “"We regnise that homosexuals are part of our society.
Here you will fd two of the cy’s most popular gay dance clubs – Tantric and Taboo, which both pack revelers at weekends, who crowd the dance floor to thumpg tun.
BT GAY CLUBS SGAPORE
Dpe Sgapore’s nservative social outlook, and the fact that homosexual sex remas illegal here, the cy has a thrivg gay nightlife... * singapore gay disco *
Photo urty of Nirvana Bistro & BarSet a Chatown shophoe amongst the cy's most popular gay bars, Nirvana Bistro & Bar offers a relaxed atmosphere for food and drks at reasonable pric. Photo urty of electrierve/flickrebar Karaoke lounge and bar is loted on Neil Road, amongst the majory of Sgapore's popular gay bars and clubs, and oppose the ever-popular Tantric Bar. Suated wh a betifully rtored herage shophoe, this classy karaoke jot pulls a fun-lovg gay, largely younger crowd who e here to enjoy reasonably-priced drks and give their vol chords some exercise.
Loted among many other popular gay bays on Neil Road the heart of Chatown, DYMK has s home a betifully rtored double-storey herage shophoe, unmissable by s bright red and yellow faça. Tantric Bar is one of Sgapore's most popular gay bars, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights, when is packed wh revellers enjoyg cktails and double-shot hoepours.
3 BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS SGAPORE
The gay nightlife scene Sgapore has had s ups and downs, wh plenty of long-nng LGBT-iendly clubs and bars beg forced to shut due to a number of reasons. However, that’s not to say there aren’t still plac that thrive off the pk dollar – far om . Most of the gay bars and clubs * singapore gay disco *
Thgs to doFoodShoppgNightlifeToursInformatnMoreThe gay nightlife scene Sgapore has had s ups and downs, wh plenty of long-nng LGBT-iendly clubs and bars beg forced to shut due to a number of reasons.
HAPPY (SGAPORE GAY DIS)
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Jt rock up here after the sun go down and you’ll fd a number of gay-iendly venu, om chilled out bistros to bangg nightclubs (we’ve picked a few of the bt below).
This is partly thanks to s lotn on Sgapore’s pkt street – Neil Road – surround by half-a-dozen or so other gay-iendly (but much more chill) bars and bistros. This is no gay bar s own right, but expect a very diverse crowd wh plenty of hot beach bods on display of all natnali and moreLotn: 20 Tanjong Beach Walk, Sentosa Island, SgaporeOpen: Monday–Friday om 11am to 10pm and Saturday–Sunday om 9am to 10pmPhone: +65 6270 1355MapThis article clus opns of the Go Guis edorial team.
NICHE (SGAPORE GAY DIS)
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Special thanks to Tora Y., riverrobl, afalang, bbox, genewilly, happy_t, BillyBudd, eastwt, jasoncd, luchenotte, crystalmaya, gsmgay1997, sgslave, peterbxl1, bbox, whe_sg, Tigerman, Richard, O, Thomas I., Ash, Steve, Dale and Brian! It was Sgapore's first gay dis to publish an electronic newsletter which patrons uld subscribe to via a mailg list to keep abreast of all s fun and fabulo happengs. Happy was the first gay club to brg gut DJs om Atralia, Japan, London and New York for s monthly chary party lled SWEAT held on the last Saturday of every month.
It was que a sight to wns gay men qug up to get to Happy on one si of Tanjong Pagar Road while another long le of women formed directly on the oppose si, wag to get to the lbian bar Moondance.
SGAPORE GAY TRAVEL
Happy was a gay dis which opened Augt 2004 and was -owned by imprar Alan Seah and film/theatre director and actor Glen Goei. Its official openg, however, was on 23 September 2004[1]. Happy took over when the prev dis, Taboo, vated the premis, and add an adjog un... * singapore gay disco *
Loted right smack the gayville of Sgapore, Tanjong Pagar, the club occupi the space where the old Taboo ed to operate out of - but is at least twice as large as the former club sce 's taken over the premis of the un next-door. Well known and loved by gay clubbers not jt lolly but also abroad, the dis would also be remembered by Natn partygoers for anisg the Pirat Paradise poolsi party featurg DJ Severo Phet October 2006. LGBT web portal Fridae had a heart-to-heart wh -owner Alan Seah who shared his thoughts about why "post-gay" Happy uld perhaps be a ltle ahead of s time, the gay clubbg scene Sgapore and why "nng away to Taiwan, Hong Kong and KL to be who we are for a weekend isn't the answer.
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Happy was a gay dis opened and -owned by imprar Alan Seah and film/theatre director and actor Glen Goei Augt 2004. Its official openg was on 23 September 2004. It took over when the former dis, Taboo, vated the premis and add an adjog un which gave a more sizeable dance floor space. Its addrs was #01-02/03/04, 21 Tanjong Pagar Road, Sgapore 088444 (Tel: +65 6227 7400, Fax: +65 6227 7440). * singapore gay disco *
Before Happy there were no ternatnal DJs gay clubs, no nnectn wh the boomg Asian and ternatnal circu (other than ocsnal and very wele Fridae events of urse), no attempt to draw people out on weekday nights, no special other words no novatn. Happy was Sgapore's first gay dis to publish an electronic newsletter which patrons uld subscribe to via a mailg list, to keep abreast of all s fun and fabulo happengs. The proprietor Bernard who set up Niche probably thought that a more centrally loted gay dis would draw larger crowds, pecially sce they noted that the management and patrons at Marmota were not harassed by the police.
Prr to the 1980s, venu such as Pebble Bar were forbidn to have men dancg wh each other but wh the relaxatn of this arbrary le at gay diss loted away om the cy area like The Hangar along Upper East Coast Road and Marmota at Kallang Leisuredrome, entreprenrs were keen to tt the waters a more central lotn. Niche was also a tone and breakthrough that was able to operate as a full-time gay dis, terg to a gay clientele on every night of the week unlike Marmota, which was only gay on Sundays.
Here are a few other fantastic hotels and hostels for gay travelers Sgapore that are highly rated, affordable, and perfectly loted for explorg the cy. As I remend the sectns above, stayg anywhere the southern half of Sgapore’s Central Area will make super nvenient to accs the lol gay bars.
SGAPORE GAY BARS
Niche was a gay dis loted on level 5 of Far East Plaza. It opened April 1983 to sh on the populary of Marmota, a gay dis at Kallang Leisuredrome on the outskirts of the cy area. The proprietor Bernard who set up Niche probably thought that a more centrally loted gay dis... * singapore gay disco *
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Gay tablishments were found terspersed along Tanjong Pagar Road and adjog thoroughfar such as Tras Street, Craig Road, Neil Road, Duxton Hill, Ann Siang Road, as well as nearby districts such as Chatown and Telok Ayer. As far as lols n remember, but which n only be rroborated by a handful of people, the very first gay bar Sgapore was the Crern along Orchard Road, not very far om the old Cold Storage buildg where Centrepot now stands. Next me the Goln Ven bar, on the ground floor of the former Orchard Hotel along Orange Grove Road, as some lols and gay expatriat who lived Sgapore durg the 1960s n rell[14].
The bar area self was predomantly gay, while the adjacent larger room, there was a band and dance floor that was pletely "straight", beg much patronised by heterosexual Brish and Atralian servicemen. Near the time of s closure the mid-1960s, a Sgaporean who vised the bar one night scribed as beg brightly l but there was no sign of gay life.
SGAPORE GAY VENU: NTEMPORARY
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Pebbl Bar the Sgapura Hotel Inter-Contental wh s posh r and hip, live mic plete wh androgyno performer was cidly more upmarket and soon eclipsed The Goln Ven which then fad to the pths of gay history. It had bee well known as a chill-out bar, pecially amongst English-ted gays and a reputed pick-up hnt for whe tourists and lol, eply closeted homosexuals. Gay gathergs began on Sundays, a tradn which grew out of earlier attempts by Sgapore food and beverage outlets to py the Amerin practice of holdg Sunday afternoon tea danc, popular durg that era.
After Le Bistro eventually closed down, Pebble Bar once aga me to s own and ntued as THE gay meetg place to be until the Hotel Sgapura Inter-Contental was molished the mid-1980s. In the early 1970s, beme patronised largely by the English-ted, upper-strata gays of Sgaporean society who formed a nex which enticed other gays to ngregate there.
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Although was the only one of Sgapore's first 3 gay bars to have a dance floor, albe a rather small one, same-sex dancg was strictly prohibed. Pebble Bar beme ls popular as a gay venue later the early 1970s when Le Bistro startg to attract more of the gay clientele, although never pletely plunged to oblivn as a meetg place. What is undisputed is that the gay crowd loved gog there bee if one got tired of stg the bar, one uld hop across the lobby to have a ffee or a piece of pastry the fé[15].
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(For drag queen performance bars such as the Boom Boom Room and Gold Dt, see the article Transgenr people Sgapore). From the 1990s to the 2000s, most of Sgapore's gay bars were loted the Tanjong Pagar nstuency, through the heart of which ns Tanjong Pagar Road. This earned... * singapore gay disco *
The hotel management cid did not want Treetops to be a gay venue as felt was bad for s image and started refg to serve people whom they thought were gay. In most gay bars today, ctomers take for granted that the bartenrs know they are workg a gay venue probably owned by gay people and have to serve gay people wh a welg iendly attu. There was always a touch of tensn or spicn when one orred one's drk, very unlike the easy sual relatnship that one uld have wh waers and bartenrs gay bars today.
The reason why a bar beme gay was mostly serendipy - for example, a group of gay people chanced upon a chill-out place, then likg the mic or the ambience, went back equently. They told other gays and the word got around that the place was attractg a gay clientele and this trend would grow unls the bar owner put a stop to , as was the se wh Treetops Bar. More wealthy gay social would patronise the more exclive, classy and expensive nightclub, Choiserie, suated on the send level of Hyatt Hotel, also along Stts Road.
Babylon was Sgapore's first exclively gay karaoke pub at 52 Tanjong Pagar Road, set up durg the height of the karaoke craze the late 1980s; a narrow, miature versn of s legendary namake Bangkok and the origal Sumerian cy. To sh on the populary of the semal Babylon, an enterprisg gay Sgaporean named Kent Low opened another gay karaoke jot 1991 wh a bs partner, jt a few uns away, at 78 Tanjong Pagar Road. On Monday, 31 March 2008, Mox Bar and Cafe, which had been recently voted as Sgapore's favoure gay bar at the Fridae ae-List Awards[18], closed s doors, wh a garage sale on Thursday, 27 March and a farewell party lled "End of the Rabow" on Saturday, 29 March 2008[19].
Ten Mens Club (also spelt 10Mens Club) is a gay sna Sgapore. (Note that the Mens s name has no apostrophe. Whether this is tentnal or not is unclear.) It is currently suated at 32A Pagoda Street, s third lotn the heart of Chatown. Ten Mens Club first opened ... * singapore gay disco *
The management allowed the anisers of IndigNatn[22], Sgapore's gural gay pri month Augt 2005, ee e of s premis to nduct the historic, first-ever public talk on homosexualy to be held an door venue sce Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong's 2004 liberalisatn of the l erng the events. Lbians who qued up durg the weekends to get were met wh the sight of an even longer le of gay men wag to get to Taboo dis loted on the oppose si of Tanjong Pagar Road.
Ntled along the Tanjong Pagar belt, which was home to a few other proment gay bars, GreyZone lled s sy send-storey pared down terr home sce 2004, when was formerly known as Alternative Bar. This rooftop bar may have been a ted hike up three storeys but was well worth for women who loved the bar's zero tolerance policy that refed men onto the premis, even if they were gay. In Augt 2014, Ten Mens Club moved s lotn yet aga to a shophoe un recently vated by another gay sna, Absolute, at level 2, 332A Pagoda Street, Sgapore 059191.
Set up by activists to culte pri beg gay and stayg HIV negative, ially menced operatns at 22A Rowell Road, above the AFA headquarters, the Serangoon or Ltle India area. The clud Bian, one floor above Mox Bar & Cafe at 21 Tanjong Pagar Road, #04-01, Sgapore 088444, a member of the gay muny's home also along Rowell Road near The Post Mm and both lotns of DYMK, at Kreta Ayer Road and Neil Road.
The documentatn and chroniclg of gay venu Sgapore form an important aspect of the human geography of a signifint segment of the populatn. It was extremely difficult to fd or rerd such rmatn the past as the social activi nducted the areas were sometim at... * singapore gay disco *
The event was followed up wh Contra/Dictn - A Night wh Gay Poets held on 4 Aug 05, Sgapore's first public gay poetry readg ssn which was attend by over 70 people, wh standg room only.
It is one of the most popular gay snas bee of the reasonable entry charge of $10, welg staff and iendly crowd which tends towards the macho, mature, bears and their admirers.
Beg equented maly at night by a stigmatised mory fear of nng afoul of the law every time they ngregate for social or sexual terurse, outdoor gay hangouts have remaed largely unknown to the mastream public. It was only the mid-90s that police harassment of homosexuals at the venu stopped, although sporadic plats by members of the public may still be vtigated.
Sgapore's first LGBT pri ftival open to the general public, IndigNatn, took place durg the month of Augt 2005. It subsequently beme an annual affair after the succs of the gural event. IndigNatn was nceived as the anthis to gay parti, however, billg self as a... * singapore gay disco *
The followg list, which clus cisg areas some nservative gays may feel do not st a favourable light upon the Sgaporean homosexual image, has been drawn up for the sake of amic prehensivens and as a rerd of the llective lol gay memory. Also officially known as Hong Lim Green, was the first and formerly the most famo Sgaporean gay venue listed the premiere ternatnal gay tourist reference, the Spartac Gay Gui. Cisy at night for more than half a century, s dim lightg and tall shbbery provid ial ndns for quicki between gay men, pecially elrly Che-ted on, until the bh were pned and bright lights stalled the early 90s to ter such activi.
The rectangular plant receptacl along the periphery of the park where gay men uld s, chat and perhaps fondle each other have also sce been removed. Ls popular after the sproutg of numero gay snas sce the late 1990s and the velopment of well-l mercial plex like Cha Square which replaced the dark, dank, relict shopho where night-time cisg took place. It is thought that the early days of immigrant Sgapore, homosexual rgo oli began to have clanste sexual enunters the public toilets along the Sgapore River, pecially at Boat Quay.
(For a discsn of plac no longer extant where homosexuals ed to socialise or cise such as Le Bistro, Pebbl Bar, Treetops Bar, Vcent's lounge, Niche, Marmota/Shadows, Legend, Spartac, Raia, Boat Quay and Esplana Park, see the articl Sgapore gay venu: historil and Sgapore gay venu: historil, mor). Prev gay celebratns, exemplified by Fridae's inic Natn parti held annually Sgapore sce 2001, were private mercial functns anised maly for LGBT recreatn.