THE 5 BEST Washgton Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

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• THE 5 BEST WASHGTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WASHGTON
• THE BT GAY BARS WASHGTON, D.C.
• AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE
• ‘LEG’ REUNTS GAY MAN’S EXPERIENCE WH CEREBRAL PALSY
• THE BEST WASHGTON DC GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WASHGTON DC
• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
• THE BT GAY BARS SEATTLE, WASHGTON
• THE 5 BEST SEATTLE GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SEATTLE
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• CHILEAN LAWMAKERS REJECT PLAT AGAST GAY TN MISTER
• WASHGTON DC GAY BARS
• THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA
• THE 5 BEST SEATTLE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SEATTLE

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

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THE BT GAY BARS WASHGTON, D.C.

Larry’s Lounge is a gay neighborhood pub, wh always-affordable drks, solid happy hour specials, mouth-waterg pub fare (see: sweet potato tots) and one of the cy’s iendlit pats (you n brg your dog, too! Number Ne to the btlg Logan Circle urty of -founr Ed Bailey, who helped DC’s gay nightlife scene to grow durg his days as a DJ. Suated right the heart of Adams Man’s btlg 18th Street is Pchers, a gay sports bar, and A League of Her Own, the adjacent bar for lbian and queer women.

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

The Bt Gay Bars Washgton, D.

‘LEG’ REUNTS GAY MAN’S EXPERIENCE WH CEREBRAL PALSY

—our natn’s pal, if you’ve managed to fet—has been scribed as “the gayt place Ameri.

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Perhaps the most unr-the-radar gay bar to outsirs, as well as the most polil of Washgton's gay bars, the Der is home to high-profile Democratic and Republin operativ who regularly put asi polics when they arrive for the party.

LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY

Grab a Lemon Squeeze (the bar's mastay cktail), a pile of tater tots and ntle to a booth to see and be INFO →KNOWN FORfull menucheap datebar foodCobaltCobalt has long been a mastay on the District's gay-centric 17th Street Corridor.

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INFO →KNOWN FORdancgcheap datefull menuDacha Beer GarnDacha isn't an official gay bar, but you wouldn’t know by the crowd.

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In keepg, beware: It n get INFO →KNOWN FORcraft beeroutdoor / patbar foodDo's Bar at FlorianaIn the basement of an Italian rtrant off the very-gay 17th Street, Dupont Circle, is Do’s Bar.

He's been servg drks and hostg at the ty hiaway for a now, and is beloved by the gay and straight crowds INFO →KNOWN FORcheap datefull menuJR's Bar & Grill The “grill” part of JR's Bar & Grill is mostly absent. Gay bar scene attractg polished polis and beefy at boys.

For years, the bar banned dancg but fally relented after a of prsure by patrons—not that there's much room to dance; between trivia nights and happy hour, n be packed cheek-to-cheek most of the INFO →KNOWN FORcheap datedancglive micLarry's LoungeYou won’t fd Larry’s Lounge listed on any gay bar map of Washgton, D.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Not officially a gay bar, not officially a straight bar, Larry’s is jt Larry’s. C’s gay muny. They’ll merely check on you om time-to-time to make sure you’re still alive and to brg you ee INFO →KNOWN FORcheap datebar foodoutdoor / patNellie's Sports BarWhen Nellie's first opened 2007 at the rner of 9th & U Street, NW, some wonred if a gay bar uld thrive a lotn so far removed om the center of Washgton’s gay nightlife scene.

But, as the cy’s gay muny has moved east, Nellie's (named for the owner's grandmothers—y, multiple grandmothers) now the most popular gay bar all of D. Though 's billed as a sports bar—and ser sports fans fely e here to tch a game—the TVs rarely factor on DJ nights when crowds pack Nellie's rooftop INFO →KNOWN FORsportscheap datelive micdancgfull menuNumber 9When the owners of the wildly popular gay nightclub Town Danceboutiqe set out to open a cktail bar, they named honor of their nth venture together.

CHILEAN LAWMAKERS REJECT PLAT AGAST GAY TN MISTER

The space—prevly a rather unspirg gay bar—was rernated as a dim, morn lounge wh a foc on ser cktails.

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WASHGTON DC GAY BARS

INFO →Town DanceBoutiqueThe District's largt gay dance club, Town Danceboutique (known as “Town” to lols) is the place meet someone new. Like a gay-Amerin Moul Rouge, Town is a glterg maze of baret, gogo boys and edy shows that create a sort of what-uld-happen-next circ atmosphere. Tour historic LGBTQ+ s, grab a drk at the bt gay and lbian bars the cy, rock out at Capal Pri and so much more.

THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA

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.

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

I cut through Cal Anrson Park, named after Washgton state’s first openly gay legislator.