THE BEST Jackson Heights Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

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• GAY BARS QUEENS: WHERE TO PARTY JACKSON HEIGHTS
• THE BEST JACKSON HEIGHTS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSON HEIGHTS
• HOMBR LOUNGESEE ALL THGS TO DO{"@TYPE":"LOLBS","NAME":"HOMBR LOUNGE","URL":"\","ADDRS":{"@TYPE":"POSTALADDRS","STREETADDRS":"8528 37TH AVE","ADDRSLOLY":"JACKSON HEIGHTS","ADDRSREGN":"NEW YORK","ADDRSCOUNTRY":"UNED STAT","POSTALCO":"11372-7345"},"AGGREGATERATG":{"@TYPE":"AGGREGATERATG","RATGVALUE":"5.0","REVIEWCOUNT":2},"OPENGHOURS":"MO-SU 16:00-04:00","IMAGE":"HTTPS:\U002F\\U002FMEDIA\U002FPHOTO-O\U002F1D\U002F7A\U002F2A\U002F25\","@NTEXT":"HTTP:\U002F\"}SEE ALL THGS TO DOHOMBR LOUNGE52 REVIEWS#2 OF 6 NIGHTLIFE JACKSON HEIGHTSGAY BARSREAD MORECLOSED NOW4:00 PM - 4:00 AMMONDAY4:00 PM - 4:00 AMTUDAY4:00 PM - 4:00 AMWEDNDAY4:00 PM - 4:00 AMTHURSDAY4:00 PM - 4:00 AMFRIDAY4:00 PM - 4:00 AMSATURDAY4:00 PM - 4:00 AMSUNDAY4:00 PM - 4:00 AMWRE A REVIEWABOUT"IT IS A STATN PLACE FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY OF LONG ISLAND AND CONNECTICUT. HOMBR HAS A MORE MANHATTAN ATMOSPHERE THAN THE OTHER GAY BARS ON THE JACKSON HEIGHTS STRIP, IS A PLACE TO CELEBRATE YOUR BIRTHDAY, GRADUATN AND ANY TYPE OF EVENT, WH HAPPY HOUR 7 DAYS A WEEK. (HAPPY HOUR, BEER BLAST, HAPPY HOUR 7, BIRTHDAY, MARRIAGE, PLATO COMIDA, SABROZURA NIGHT, KARAOKE, FROZEN MARGARA, PLAY THURSDAY, CRAZY FRIDAYS, SPLASH SATURDAY) "READ MORESUGGT EDS TO IMPROVE WHAT WE SHOW.IMPROVE THIS LISTGFULL VIEWALL PHOTOS (152)THE AREA ADDRS8528 37TH AVE, JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY 11372-7345HOW TO GET THERE82ND ST – JACKSON HEIGHTS • 5 M WALK90TH ST – ELMHURST AVE • 6 M WALKREACH OUT DIRECTLYVIS WEBSECALLEMAILFULL VIEWBT NEARBYRTRANTS2,491 WH 3 EL CHIVO D'ORO74309 FT$$ - $$$ • STEAKHOE • LAT • BARBECUEPOLLOS MAR55525 FT$$ - $$$ • LAT • COLOMBIANLA PEQUENA COLOMBIA RTRANTE540.2 MI$$ - $$$ • LAT • SPANISH • COLOMBIANVIVA CEVICHE0.1 MI$$ - $$$ • PEVIAN • SOUTH AMERINLAS MARGARAS28378 FT$$ - $$$ • LAT • BAR • INTERNATNALJAHN'S220.2 MI$ • DERLA GRAN UGUAYA BAKERY2188 FT$$ - $$$ • BAKERI • CAFE • SPANISHJUQUILA MEXIN CUISE120.2 MI$ • MEXINOCEANIC BOIL13273 FT$$ - $$$ • CAJUN & CREOLE • SEAFOODHAPPY KCHEN130.2 MI$$ - $$$ • JAPANE • SHI • ASIANSEE ALLATTRACTNS1,056 WH 6 TRAVERS PARK110.3 MIPARKS • PLAYGROUNDSLOUIS ARMSTRONG HOE MM1991.1 MIHISTORY MMSCENTRAL PARK133,884POTS OF INTERT & LANDMARKS • PARKSMANHATTAN SKYLE21,485POTS OF INTERT & LANDMARKSTHE METROPOLAN MM OF ART55,119POTS OF INTERT & LANDMARKS • ART MMSST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL15,268CHURCH & CATHEDRALSGRAND CENTRAL TERMAL44,691POTS OF INTERT & LANDMARKS • ARCHECTURAL BUILDGSBROADWAY31,412POTS OF INTERT & LANDMARKSNORTHERN PARK AND PLAYGROUND20.4 MIPARKS • PLAYGROUNDSBRYANT PARK23,840PARKSSEE ALLCONTRIBUTEWRE A REVIEWUPLOAD A PHOTOREVIEWSQ&AFILTERSENGLISHMOST RECENTDETAILED REVIEWS: REVIEWS ORR RMED BY SCRIPTIVENS OF ER-INTIFIED THEM SUCH AS CLEANLS, ATMOSPHERE, GENERAL TIPS AND LOTN RMATN.5.02 REVIEWSEXCELLENT2VERY GOOD0AVERAGE0POOR0TERRIBLE0XAVIERMIAMI, FL25 NTRIBUTNS2PERFECT PARTY PLACEJUL 2018 • FRIENDSMY BTIEND TOOK ME OUT TO THIS LOUNGE FOR MY LAST NIGHT NEW YORK. MY BARTENRS WERE SMOKG SEXY GUYS TO LOOK AT AS WELL IENDLY, THE DRKS WERE AMAZG, WH PLAYG BGO I WOULD THE FIRST ME SEND PLACE. I WOULD HIGHLY REMEND THIS PLACE TO EVERYONE AND ANYONE AS WELL AS MIC AND CHANG UP WH ALL TYP OF VIB. I BE BACK SOON!!!!READ MOREWRTEN JULY 25, 2018THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.CARLOSFANTASTIC! IS ALWAYS GREAT TO HEAR SUCH AWOME FEEBACK, AND WE LOVE WELG EVERYONE TO BE PART OF THE HOMBR LOUNGE FAY, WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AGA SOON.READ MOREWRTEN JANUARY 28, 2022THIS RPONSE IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF THE MANAGEMENT REPRENTATIVE AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC.LOUIS PNEW YORK CY, NY19 NTRIBUTNS0I LOVE THIS BAR. FEB 2018OUT THIS WORLD MIC AND EXCELLENT DRKS. BEEN THERE OM THE BEGNG I HAD GREAT EXPERIENC HERE. VERY GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD GAY BAR. ON SATURDAY THE MIC SOMETHG TO TALK ABOUT. READ MOREWRTEN FEBARY 2, 2018THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.CARLOSFANTASTIC! IS ALWAYS GREAT TO HEAR SUCH AWOME FEEBACK, AND WE LOVE WELG EVERYONE TO BE PART OF THE HOMBR LOUNGE FAY, WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AGA SOON.READ MOREWRTEN JANUARY 28, 2022THIS RPONSE IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF THE MANAGEMENT REPRENTATIVE AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC.NO QUTNS HAVE BEEN ASKED ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCEASK A QUTNALSO POPULAR WH TRAVELERSSEE ALLFRIENDS TAVERN17BARS & CLUBSHAIRO'S NIGHTCLUB2BARS & CLUBSEL PAISA BAR1BARS & CLUBSCALIFORNIA SPORTS BAR2BARS & CLUBSSUNNYBAR, CLUB & PUB TOURS • COFFEE & TEA TOURSIS THIS YOUR TRIPADVISOR LISTG?OWN OR MANAGE THIS PROPERTY? CLAIM YOUR LISTG FOR EE TO RPOND TO REVIEWS, UPDATE YOUR PROFILE AND MUCH MORE.CLAIM YOUR LISTGHOMBR LOUNGE (JACKSON HEIGHTS) - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
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GAY BARS QUEENS: WHERE TO PARTY JACKSON HEIGHTS

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Its webse lls the “hottt gay spot Jackson Heights, ” wh a club-vibe feelg spired by Manhattan’s nightlife. Hombr has a more Manhattan atmosphere than the other gay bars on the Jackson Heights Strip, is a place to celebrate your birthday, graduatn and any type of event, wh happy hour 7 days a week. Very good neighborhood gay bar.

Jackson Heights, where the Queens Pri Para tak place annually, has had a gay prence sce was veloped the 1920s. QUEENS, NY -- “I am gay.

Fabian Arias, as he and others gathered at the Manhattan Cocktail Lounge btlg Jackson Heights, New York Cy neighborhood — where roughly half s rints intify as Lato — is home to gay-iendly plac like the Manhattan Cocktail Lounge, Te Colors, Friend’s Tavern and Hombr Lounge, tablishments which have transformed the area to a refuge or sanctuary for the Lato LGBT, the senr pastor of the Lutheran Church of Sn, loted at St. Peter’s Church Manhattan, marched on the neighborhood's inic and diverse Roosevelt Avenue wh LGBT activists, rints and muny lears holdg ndl, banners, flags and photos to remember the 49 victims of Sunday’s mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida.

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RELATED: Lato Communy H Hard Orlando Shootgs, Most Victims Were Hispanic“Sce Sunday, I have marched every night for our rights, ” said Democratic New York Cy uncil member Daniel Dromm Spanish to marchers ont of the Jackson Heights gay Club Evolutn. “We have to liver the msage that we will not accept homophobia, transphobia or Islamophobia. ”Marchers pose at vigil for LGBT and Latx victims of the Orlando ConThe uncil member explaed durg the vigil how the neighborhood's LGBT clubs and bars helped him rec support for the Queens Pri Para held here Jackson Heights and have helped make this part of the Big Apple, home to so many immigrants and New Yorkers of different natnali, to a safe space for the gay the mass shootg has ma some LGBT Latos feel vulnerable and isolated, Hugo Car Ovejero—anizer for Latos Diferent, a New York-based support group for gay and bisexual men—remd marchers at the vigil that they are not alone.

And Jackson Heights, among the many cultur and natnali, the neighborhood's gay bars and clubs have been openg their doors to make everyone—gay and straight—feel like they are part of an extend fay. “I’m not fed by a gay or heterosexual flag, ” said Hector Marquez, owner of the Manhattan Cocktail Lounge, to NBC Lato.

In Jackson Heights, there is a clter of gay bars and clubs on eher si of Roosevelt Avenue, wh the elevated No. They are the nucls of New York’s Lato gay scene, pecially on Saturday nights, when salsa, merengue, Spanish pop, and hoe mic are blarg, and people e om Long Island, New Jersey, and the Bronx to drk and dance. The massacre Orlando, which forty-ne people were killed on Lat night at the gay club Pulse, has been particularly stabilizg for the Lato gay muny; nety per cent of the Orlando victims were Lato, of whom twenty-three were Puerto Rin.

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” His iend Er Castillo, whom he met through the gay-youth group Holatos, said, “I grew up by Ozone Park. It wasn’t until two years ago that I started g to the clubs and the big gay scene.

What many outsirs don’t know, though, is that this muny has one of the largt—and most racially diverse—“gayborhoods” the U.

Queer people of lor—primarily Latx and South Asian people—were drawn to the area’s gay scene. Head wt to make a stop at Te Colors (y, named after Cyndi Lper’s gay anthem) for karaoke, and later on, clubbg. ) A few blocks down is Club Evolutn, the epicenter of gay clubs Jackson Heights, wh several levels and ltle sectns where you won't be able to rry a nversatn—so jt dance.