Top gay bars
Dancing is the ultimate way to heal, celebrate, and uplift yourself and others—and a gay club is more than just a place to dance. With the exhilaration of a pulsing beat and a dark dancefloor, you can meet others over a delicious cocktail or mocktail, and enjoy the assist of community. Whether it’s a drag bar or a bear hangout, a lesbian-oriented venue or a fetish club, this roundup of queer bars shows great places to navigate the pride flag and rejoice in your control body. Of course, cities like San Francisco and Providence are well-known for having multiple LGBTQ+ clubs to pick from, but small towns with maybe even just one club that you have to drive a few hours to reach make it worth the trip. Plus, where else are you going to gather to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race?
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LGBTQ+ nightlife in Chicago: gay and dyke bars, clubs, and more
Chicago’s nightlife is a lot appreciate the city itself — inclusive, diverse, and welcoming to all. It’s also a whole lot of fun. Our gay and female homosexual bars have a little bit of something for everyone, with late-night lounges, dance clubs,burlesque and drag shows, and long-standing neighborhood watering holes in almost every corner of the city. And each comes with their own unusual history and vibe.
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Jeffery Pub
One of the city’s oldest same-sex attracted bars, Jeffery Pub is a neighborhood institution. The South Shore staple is also one of Chicago’s first black-owned gay bars, making it all the more meaningful for the spot’s many regulars. Don’t long for the live fun, like karaoke nights, Silky Soul Sundays, and a lively dance floor featuring everything from pop to house music.
Big Chicks
This lively and colorful spot is part LGBTQ hangout, part art gallery. The walls are plastered with the owner’s personal collection of paintings and photos, including massive names like Diane Arbus. But don’t think for a second that makes the pla
Our insider’s guide to the optimal of LGBTQ+ São Paulo
To find your head around São Paulo, you’ve got to get yourself up a few storeys, to look out at the sea of towers in which so many of the Brazilian megacity’s 22 million inhabitants live. Acquire yourself up high enough and you’ll see the deep sea–blue rooftop pools and the golf course–green helipads that rich paulistanos depend upon to insulate themselves from the chaos below.
But as a visitor, you’ll want to take a big bite out of that chaos. It’s what you came for. São Paulo is a work-hard-play-harder melting pot of cultures, the world’s most populous city outside of Asia. Unlike its chill Brazilian rival city, Rio de Janeiro, you won’t find beaches or untouched nature (though there are some nice parks). But if you love art, shopping, restaurants, nightlife and festivals, hosted by some of the most beautiful, outgoing people on the planet, you might have found your paradise.
And so much of it is queer. Since 2006, São Paulo’s Pride celebration has been recognizable as the biggest in the world, but you don’t contain to time your trip to coincide with the parade to be overwhelmed with LGBTQ+ choices. In many neighbourhoods, same-gender
The 10 coolest homosexual bars in the world
Cool is in the eye of the beholder. A place that has a sense of style in its décor, its harmony and its show programming. Not necessarily trendy, but with some attention paid to shaping the space.
A venue where the crowd has a real vibe—you get who these people are and you suspect everyone there has a story to inform. A little bit of an edge … but inclusive.
Cool is, of course, what many monthly queer club nights are providing these days in many cities across the globe. But these 10 venues are hip and happening four or more days a week. And they hold addresses, making them easier for travellers who need proper directions and can’t schedule their attend to an every-third-Friday-venue-TBA party.
West Hollywood, California
The Abbey Food & Bar (692 N. Robertson Blvd., West Hollywood). With a history going endorse to 1991, the Abbey is an iconic venue with a maze of indoor-outdoor spaces—a notice perfect for whatever mood you’re in. The décor is unique (the main room feels fancy the inside of a circus tent), but what makes it deeply fresh is its proximity to celebrity: Kim Kardashian, Elton John, Lady Gaga and Dita Von Teese,