Ithaki has been open since 1998 in a small building just outside the Venetian walls near Famagusta Gate, and it is where most of Nicosia's queer nightlife happens. The club runs its own weekly gay night, Think Outside The Box, rather than letting an outside promoter use the room.
The room is small and it fills up. Music depends on the night, from pop and house on the gay night to RnB and student parties that pull an international crowd out of the city's universities. The crowd is mixed rather than men only, and the gay night sits inside a week that also serves a straight audience.
Nicosia has no dedicated gay bar, so a club with a standing queer night counts for more here than the same thing would elsewhere. Ithaki also takes the official pre-Pride party when Cyprus Pride comes round.
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