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Le Clos Saint Jean

Le Val-d'Hazey, France

Le Clos Saint Jean is a small guest house at Le Val-d'Hazey in the Eure, close to the Château de Gaillon, in the triangle between Paris, Rouen and Ver ...

Le Clos des Palmes

Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle, France

Le Clos des Palmes is a naturist guest house for gay men in Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle, on the western side of Orléans. The house describes itself as a c ...

Au Clos des Secrets

Peyrusse-Grande, France

Au Clos des Secrets is a gay chambres d'hôtes for men at Peyrusse-Grande, in the Haut-Armagnac corner of the Gers, with a gîte that is also gay only. ...

At Cornelia and Friends

Rome, Italy

A guest room in the home of a gay couple in the Aurelio district of Rome, a quiet residential area near the Vatican, about 500 metres from Cornelia me ...

27 Brighton

Brighton, United Kingdom

27 Brighton is an owner-managed boutique guesthouse on Upper Rock Gardens in Kemptown, close to the beach. It describes itself as gay friendly, and it ...

Bears n Breakfast

Condom, France

Bears n Breakfast is a gay chambres d'hôtes aimed at bears, in the countryside outside Condom in the Gers. The owners came from the Côte d'Azur and op ...

Why Not?

Maspalomas, Spain

Why Not? is a menswear shop on the third floor of the Yumbo Centrum in Playa del Ingles, and it flies the rainbow flag on its own pages. It specialise ...

The Bronx

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Bronx has sold erotic goods on Kerkstraat since 1976, on the stretch of the street that also holds Club Church at number 52. It calls itself an er ...

Le Jul's

Carcassonne, France

Le Jul's is a gay sauna on Rue de Montpellier in Carcassonne, four minutes' walk from the railway station. It has been completely renovated. Inside ...

Casa Llibertat

Llíber, Spain

Casa Llibertat is an adults-only bed and breakfast in a traditional finca in Llíber, in the Jalón valley behind the Costa Blanca, with its own vineyar ...

Casa Brisa

Sant Pere de Ribes, Spain

Casa Brisa is a boutique guest house for gay men only, set in the woods beside the Garraf Natural Park, about 6 kilometres from Sitges. A gay couple b ...

Villa Arc en Ciel

Joué-lès-Tours, France

Villa Arc en Ciel is a gay-only guest house in Joué-lès-Tours, on the southwestern edge of Tours. The house calls itself naturist, so clothes are opti ...

BREAK Free NAT HOME

Thuré, France

BREAK Free NAT HOME is a maison d'hôtes at Thuré, in the hamlet of La Guittière in the north of the Vienne, roughly halfway between Tours and Poitiers ...

Café la Muse

Marseille, France

Café la Muse is a café, bar and brasserie on a corner of Rue de Lodi in Notre-Dame-du-Mont, a short walk from Cours Julien. Yellow awnings carry its n ...

Camden Court Hotel

Dublin, Ireland

Camden Court Hotel is a four-star hotel on Camden Street Lower in Dublin 2, a short walk from St Stephen's Green and Grafton Street. The building is r ...

Villa 3 Caparica

Charneca de Caparica, Portugal

Villa 3 Caparica is a gay men's hotel in Charneca de Caparica, on the Setúbal peninsula between Lisbon and the beaches at Costa da Caparica. It calls ...

L'AnsloBoys Montagne

Les Deux Alpes, France

L'AnsloBoys Montagne lets holiday apartments at Les Deux Alpes 1800, in a pedestrian part of the resort at the foot of the ski slopes and a few steps ...

Le Clos des Oliviers

Bompas, France

Le Clos des Oliviers is a single guest suite for men only, in an architect-designed house in Bompas, a small town between Perpignan and the sea. The h ...

La Patte d'Ours 2

Ambon, France

La Patte d'Ours 2 is a small guesthouse in the hamlet of Petit Bodo outside Ambon, in south Morbihan, about 7 km from the first beaches and 15 minutes ...

La Moustache Bleue

Bouin, France

La Moustache Bleue is a chambre d'hôtes on the Grande Rue of Bouin, a village on the Vendée coast between Pornic and Noirmoutier. It opened in June 20 ...

Galants de Nuit

Crest, France

Galants de Nuit is a guest house for men only in Crest, in a quiet lane five minutes' walk from the medieval centre and its tower. It combines four ro ...

Fantasy Farm

Chatain, France

Fantasy Farm is a queer smallholding in the south of the Vienne, at the hamlet of L'Armigère outside Chatain. It calls itself gay by nature, and it is ...

Domaine de la Porte de Fer

Carcassonne, France

Domaine de la Porte de Fer is a guest house on a 14-hectare estate of vines and pine woods on a hillside above Carcassonne, looking across to the medi ...

Autour d'une Toile

Val-du-Faby, France

Autour d'une Toile is a house for stays, retreats and seminars in Val-du-Faby, in the Aude about 25 minutes from Limoux. It takes up to ten guests in ...

tom Sauna

Ostercappeln, Germany

tom Sauna is a small sauna for men in Ostercappeln, northeast of Osnabrück. Its own slogan promises "more than hot air". There are several saunas w ...

À l'ombre des 2 tilleuls

Sainte-Pazanne, France

À l'ombre des 2 tilleuls is a small maison d'hôtes in the centre of Sainte-Pazanne, in the Pays de Retz south-west of Nantes. It takes adults only and ...

Domaine Les Martins

Gordes, France

Domaine Les Martins is a bed and breakfast in an old farming hamlet founded in the 1600s below Gordes, in the Luberon, in the triangle between Gordes, ...

Upon Angels

Lisbon, Portugal

Upon Angels is an adults-only hotel on Rua dos Anjos, in Arroios, a couple of Metro stops north of the Baixa and within walking distance of Intendente ...

The Purple Hotel

Sant Antoni de Portmany, Spain

The Purple is a small adults-only hotel in the middle of Sant Antoni de Portmany, on the west coast about sixteen kilometres from Ibiza Town. It has t ...

Hotel Ritual Maspalomas

Maspalomas, Spain

Hotel Ritual Maspalomas stands on Avenida Alféreces Provisionales, within reach of both the Yumbo Centrum and the beach at Playa del Inglés. It descri ...

Fahana Men Only

Maspalomas, Spain

Fahana Men Only is a men-only hotel on Avenida de Gran Canaria in Playa del Ingles. It calls itself a luxury intimate hotel refined and designed with ...

Sauna Le 9

Le Cannet, France

Sauna Le 9 is a sauna and hammam on Chemin de l'Industrie in Le Cannet, just inland from Cannes. It describes itself as mixed and LGBT friendly, and i ...

VillaCanau

Lacanau, France

VillaCanau is an adults-only chambres d'hôtes and gîte in Lacanau, between the lake and the Atlantic coast of the Médoc. It describes itself as a conf ...

Villa Peacock

Le Grau d'Agde, France

Villa Peacock is a guesthouse for gay men only in Le Grau d'Agde, about five minutes from the naturist village at Cap d'Agde. It has been open since 2 ...

Tiki Palm Beach

Gardanne, France

Tiki Palm Beach is a small resort for gay men only in the countryside at Gardanne, about ten minutes from Aix-en-Provence and twenty from Marseille. I ...

Refuge Luxe

Camiran, France

Refuge Luxe is an adults-only boutique guesthouse in Camiran, among the vineyards of the Entre-Deux-Mers not far from Saint-Émilion. It calls itself g ...

Plaisirs et Sérénité

Nice, France

Plaisirs et Sérénité is a small guest house for gay men only in Cimiez, the residential hill district in the north of Nice. The hosts live on site and ...

La Connexion

Peymeinade, France

La Connexion is a gay-owned guesthouse for gay men only, in the countryside outside Peymeinade between Grasse and the Lac de Saint-Cassien. Cannes is ...

Chambres en vigne

Ruch, France

Chambres en vigne is a chambres d'hôtes among the vineyards at Ruch, in the Entre-Deux-Mers between Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux and Bergerac. There are ...

Chambre d'Amis

Paris, France

Chambre d'Amis is a bed and breakfast in a private flat in the Charonne and Saint-Blaise quarter of the 20th arrondissement, in eastern Paris. Gues ...

Cabanons en Ville, La Chambre

Marseille, France

Cabanons en Ville lets a guest room in a lived-in 125 m² flat in the Préfecture quarter of Marseille's 6th arrondissement. The flat is on the fourth f ...

Tarlata Café

Marseille, France

Tarlata Café is a café and cocktail bar on Cours Julien in Marseille's 6th arrondissement, between a graffitied doorway and a shopfront painted with m ...

Aloha

Bessan, France

Aloha is a small gay guesthouse in the village of Bessan, a short drive inland from Agde and Cap d'Agde. The garden is screened from view, and naturis ...

À l'Ombre des Pins

Vaison-la-Romaine, France

À l'Ombre des Pins is a single guest room in a quiet residential street of Vaison-la-Romaine, within walking distance of the town centre and its Roman ...

La Promenade Suite & Spa

Congenies, France

La Promenade Suite & Spa is a single guest suite in an old village house at Congénies, between Nîmes and Montpellier and a short drive from Sommières. ...

Dancin'

Nîmes, France

Dancin' is an LGBTQIA+ bar in the centre of Nîmes, a short walk from the arenas. It runs as a bar associatif, an association rather than an ordinary l ...

CUIB

Iași, Romania

CUIB is a vegetarian bistro, a fair trade shop and an event room in one, on Strada Gavriil Musicescu. The name is Romanian for nest, and it also stand ...

The Late Birds Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal

The Late Birds is a gay guesthouse in a restored 18th-century building on a quiet lane in Bairro Alto, a few streets above the Bica funicular. It has ...

My Rainbow Rooms

Lisbon, Portugal

My Rainbow Rooms calls itself Lisbon's exclusively male gay guest house. It is an apartment of about 200 square metres on a tree-lined street in Salda ...

UniQue Regenbooghuis

Leuven, Belgium

UniQue is the rainbow house for the province of Flemish Brabant, a volunteer-run centre and bar for LGBTQI+ people on Leuvensestraat in Kessel-Lo, a f ...

Dedo Bar

Taranto, Italy

Dedo Bar is a music bar on Via Cesare Battisti, out in the eastern part of the modern town rather than in the borgo antico. It opened in 2010 and call ...

Cheyennes Lounge Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Cheyennes Lounge Bar is a show bar on the walkway of the Yumbo Centrum in Playa del Ingles. Drag is what it is known for, and the bar books performers ...

Buffoluto Cruising Area

Taranto, Italy

Buffoluto is a scrap of open country on the north eastern edge of Taranto, near the memorial park, and it is one of the two spots gay men in the city ...

Bar Peppermint

Maspalomas, Spain

Bar Peppermint is a cocktail bar on the ground floor of the Yumbo Centrum in Playa del Ingles, in the corner of the centre branded the Six Pack Zone. ...

The Copacabana

Maspalomas, Spain

The Copacabana is a cocktail and entertainment bar on the ground floor of the Yumbo Centrum, with a covered terrace onto the walkway and the bar count ...

Aqua Beach Bungalows

Maspalomas, Spain

Aqua Beach Bungalows is an adults only bungalow resort on Avenida Estados Unidos, a short walk from the Yumbo Centrum. The area around the pool is clo ...

Finca Margarita

Telde, Spain

Finca Margarita is a restored Canarian farmhouse in Los Caserones, in the hills above Telde on the green north side of Gran Canaria. It stands on the ...

Café de Halte

Breda, Netherlands

Café de Halte is a gay café on the Halstraat, a short street in Breda's old centre a few minutes from the Grote Markt. It opened in October 2025 in pr ...

Bizitza

Bilbao, Spain

Bizitza is a cafe and bar on Dorre Kalea, one of the narrow streets of Bilbao's Casco Viejo, a short walk from the cathedral. It is among the better k ...

Binario 49

Reggio Emilia, Italy

Binario 49 is a literary cafe in the Ospizio quarter, east of Reggio Emilia's centre, in a derelict building that an association took over and reopene ...

Gio Restaurant

Maspalomas, Spain

Gio Restaurant is an Italian kitchen in the Yumbo Centrum in Playa del Ingles. Handmade pizza and pasta are the centre of it, with antipasti, salads, ...

Nuevo Rokoko

Maspalomas, Spain

Nuevo Rokoko is a coffee bar on Avenida 8 de Marzo, on the ground floor of the Edificio Santa Lucia Bayuca and a short walk from the Yumbo Centre. It ...

Café Wien

Maspalomas, Spain

Café Wien is a Viennese coffee house on the second floor of the Cita shopping centre in Playa del Ingles. It has been making coffee and pastries there ...

Dagobert Sauna

Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

Dagobert is a small erotic sauna in Mundenheim, a residential district in the south of Ludwigshafen. It is mixed on every day it opens, and says so pl ...

Atlantis Sauna & Wellness Resort

Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

Atlantis is a gay sauna and wellness complex in Rheingönheim, the southernmost district of Ludwigshafen. It has been running since 2002 and calls itse ...

La Maison d'Hélios - Nemausus

Nîmes, France

La Maison d'Hélios is a chambre d'hôtes at Mas Chalvidan on the outskirts of Nîmes, and it describes itself as gay and naturist. It lets one guest roo ...

La Bergerie du Moulin

Taradeau, France

La Bergerie du Moulin is a five-room guesthouse in a converted mill sheepfold in a valley below the Provencal village of Taradeau, in the Var. The bui ...

Jogi's Club Discothek

Krefeld, Germany

Jogi's has been running on the Neue Linner Straße since September 1986, in rooms that were a brothel before that. It is a club and a pub at the same t ...

GS Club

Poitiers, France

GS Club sits in a narrow street in the old centre of Poitiers. It opened in January 1992 as a women's bar, changed hands two years later, and spent th ...

Spiaggia dei Filtri

Duino-Aurisina, Italy

The Filtri beach sits about eight kilometres from Trieste below Aurisina, and its naturist end is the one gay men from the city have used for years. T ...

Praia 19

Costa da Caparica, Portugal

Praia 19 is the gay stretch of the Costa da Caparica coast, at the southern end of Praia da Bela Vista. It takes its name from the numbered stop on th ...

Playa de Somocuevas

Liencres, Spain

Playa de Somocuevas is a small sand cove on the Liencres coast west of Santander, below low cliffs and reached by walking down 139 steps from the road ...

Plage de l'Espiguette

Le Grau-du-Roi, France

The Plage de l'Espiguette runs for about ten kilometres of open sand south of Port Camargue, at the far end of the Grau-du-Roi commune. Behind it stan ...

Maspalomas Gay Beach

Maspalomas, Spain

The gay section of Playa de Maspalomas lies at the foot of the dune reserve, along the shore between Playa del Ingles and the Maspalomas lighthouse. I ...

Blankenburger See

Oldenburg, Germany

The Blankenburger See is a flooded gravel pit in the east of Oldenburg, about twenty-one hectares of clear water with woodland and meadow around it an ...

Villa Marie-Jeanne

Ile du Levant, France

Villa Marie-Jeanne is a house from 1937 in the Heliopolis naturist domain on the Ile du Levant, done up and let as studios and apartments. A rainbow f ...

Villa Adler

Maspalomas, Spain

Villa Adler is a naturist complex of eight bungalows on Calle Inglaterra in Playa del Ingles, open to men aged eighteen and over. Each bungalow run ...

Mar Bianco Luxury Apartments

Maspalomas, Spain

Mar Bianco is a gay men only apartment complex in Campo Internacional, the quiet residential strip above the Maspalomas dunes. Reservations are taken ...

Le Youkali

Ile du Levant, France

Le Youkali is six furnished self-catering studios in the Heliopolis naturist domain on the Ile du Levant. A rainbow flag sits beside the name at the t ...

Le Rouquier du Levant

Ile du Levant, France

Le Rouquier du Levant is three self-catering places to stay in an exotic garden of about two thousand square metres, halfway up the slope of the Ile d ...

Au Ciel Étoilé

Castillon-du-Gard, France

Au Ciel Étoilé is a two-room bed and breakfast in Castillon-du-Gard, a hilltop village a few minutes from the Pont du Gard. The two rooms are called L ...

La Thebaide du Levant

Ile du Levant, France

Nestled in the heart of a garden facing the sea, La Thébaïde du Levant is a small naturist guesthouse, gay-friendly and non-sexual, where every room h ...

La Villa Rouge

Sainte-Maxime, France

La Villa Rouge is a men-only guesthouse in the hills above Sainte-Maxime, on the far side of the bay from Saint-Tropez. A rainbow flag stands either s ...

Le Domaine Magique

Draguignan, France

Le Domaine Magique is a gay-only guesthouse in the hills above Draguignan, in the middle of the Var. Its own site calls it a maison d'hotes Gay Only a ...

Villa La Colline aux Cypres

Tanneron, France

Villa La Colline aux Cypres is a men-only guesthouse on the hillside at Tanneron, in the wooded country between the Lac de Saint-Cassien and the Ester ...

Villa Ohlala

Vidauban, France

Villa Ohlala is a naturist guesthouse for gay men outside Vidauban, in the Var. It calls itself a colonie de vacances naturiste pour gays bienveillant ...

Casa Dina

Sommières, France

Casa Dina is a small estate at Sommières, between Nîmes and Montpellier, within reach of the sea one way and the Cévennes the other. It lets four sepa ...

Casa Milo

Flassans sur Issole, France

Casa Milo calls itself a gay guest house, adult men only, and puts the words at the top of every page of its own site. It is a restored bastide in the ...

Le 49

Boissières, France

Le 49 is a men-only naturist guest house in Boissières, a village in the Gard about a quarter of an hour from Nîmes. Nudity is the rule across the who ...

Le Coco Loco

Le Luc en Provence, France

Le Coco Loco is a small bed and breakfast in the middle of the Var, about forty-five kilometres north-west of Saint-Tropez. Its own three words for it ...

Le P'tit Mas Langlade

Langlade, France

Le P'tit Mas Langlade is a gay and naturist guest house at Langlade, a village in the Vaunage west of Nîmes and about half an hour from the coast. ...

Les Granges des Camar-gays

Aubais, France

Les Granges des Camar-gays is a naturist guest house at Aubais, a village in the Vaunage between Nîmes and Montpellier with the Camargue about half an ...

Tajinaste Beach

Maspalomas, Spain

Tajinaste Beach is a small gay men only resort on Calle Lisboa in Playa del Ingles, close enough to the Yumbo Centrum to walk there. It has nine rooms ...

Villa Alba en Provence

Besse sur Issole, France

Villa Alba en Provence is an adults-only guesthouse at Besse-sur-Issole, in the green country between the inland hills and the coast. It is run by a c ...

Villa CeGi

Vidauban, France

Villa CeGi is a men-only naturist guesthouse in the countryside outside Vidauban. Its own site describes it as chambres d'hotes gay men only et naturi ...

Villa Bacchus

Vidauban, France

Villa Bacchus is a guesthouse for men in the countryside outside Vidauban, in the Var between the Provence vineyards and the coast. It calls itself a ...

The Lotus Tree

Montclus, France

The Lotus Tree is a gay guesthouse at Montclus in the northern Gard, out in open country above the Cèze and within sight of the medieval village. It s ...

La Maison du Bonheur

Draguignan, France

La Maison du Bonheur is a small adults-only guesthouse in the countryside outside Draguignan, in a stone house with a pool and unfenced land around it ...

Inn 4 Bears

Nîmes, France

Inn 4 Bears is a guesthouse for bears in the hills above Nîmes, behind the Roman tower called the Tour Magne. The quarter is one of old mazets, the sm ...

Bastide de la Dougue

Congenies, France

Bastide de la Dougue is a gay guest house at Congénies, a village between Nîmes and Montpellier and about half an hour from the Camargue beaches. The ...

AMOR.A Cake & Coffee

Ponta Delgada, Portugal

AMOR.A Cake & Coffee is a small café towards the São Pedro end of Ponta Delgada, on São Miguel. The coffee is organic and the bread is made with sourd ...

House of Riegillio

Amsterdam, Netherlands

House of Riegillio is the shop of the Amsterdam fetish label MR. Riegillio, on Reguliersdwarsstraat since July 2023. The label calls it a place for qu ...

Steamer Quay

Torquay, United Kingdom

Steamer Quay is a gay sauna on Rock Road, a quiet side street a few minutes up from Torquay harbour. It calls itself the gay sauna of the south west. ...

Xmen Shop

Maspalomas, Spain

Xmen Shop is a menswear boutique in the Cita shopping centre in Playa del Ingles. It opened in September 2024 and describes itself as dedicated to tre ...

Pride Fashion Boutique

Maspalomas, Spain

Pride Fashion Boutique is a menswear shop in the Cita shopping centre in Playa del Ingles. It describes itself as specialising in underwear, swimwear ...

Hot Garage

Maspalomas, Spain

Hot Garage is a sex shop on the third floor of the Yumbo Centrum in Playa del Ingles. It calls itself a small and charming sex shop for all publics, a ...

House of Riegillio Berlin

Berlin, Germany

House of Riegillio is the Berlin shop of the Dutch fetish label MR. Riegillio, on Eisenacher Straße in Schöneberg, a short walk from Nollendorfplatz. ...

Keltainen Ruusu

Helsinki, Finland

Keltainen Ruusu, the Yellow Rose, is an erotic shop on Malminrinne in Kamppi, a couple of hundred metres from the metro station. The shop carries over ...

Libreria delle donne di Bologna

Bologna, Italy

The Libreria delle donne is an independent bookshop and cultural association on Via San Felice, founded in 1996 by members of the Alta Marea associati ...

Treffpunkt am Wilhelmsplatz

Hagen, Germany

The Treffpunkt am Wilhelmsplatz is a volunteer-run meeting place in Wehringhausen, in the rooms of a pub the district still talks about. Nine people s ...

Les Parleuses

Nice, France

A bookshop and bistro that has been one of the fixed points of feminist and queer life in Nice since 2018. The cafe and the main bookshop face each ot ...

IGOR Libreria

Bologna, Italy

IGOR is one of the few bookshops in Italy given over to LGBTQ+ writing, and it has been running since 2007. The name is an acronym, International Gay ...

Ibiza45

Ibiza, Spain

Ibiza45 is a men's clothing shop at number 43 on Carrer de la Mare de Déu, standing among the bars rather than in a shopping street. It stocks swim ...

Black Angel

Halle (Saale), Germany

Black Angel is a scene bar on Ludwig-Wucherer-Straße, close to the Reileck junction in the Paulusviertel. The rooms are decorated in black with angel ...

Lulu Club

Nîmes, France

Lulu Club is a gay nightclub in the old centre of Nîmes, down an alley off the Rue Curaterie and behind a plain door. The club describes itself as LGB ...

Klub Monokel

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Monokel is a lesbian club at Metelkova, in the same building as Klub Tiffany. The two share a history: an LGBT club opened here in 1993 and split into ...

Distinto

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Distinto is a music pub and small nightclub on Calle Doctor Miguel Rosas, a couple of streets from Parque de Santa Catalina. It describes itself as a ...

Wittelsbacher Park

Augsburg, Germany

The Wittelsbacher Park is one of the largest green spaces in Augsburg, about 18 hectares, and it has been a protected landscape area since 1980. It li ...

Traxx Cruising Club Bordeaux

Bordeaux, France

Traxx is a men-only sex club in the centre of Bordeaux, taking a bi and gay crowd. It runs to around 500 square metres over two floors. The equipme ...

Trafick

Lausanne, Switzerland

Trafick is at the far end of Avenue de Tivoli, a short walk up from the sauna, and calls itself a sex club and BDSM dungeon. Three levels, about 300 s ...

The Boss

The Hague, Netherlands

The Boss is the cruise bar of The Hague, on Rijswijkseweg south of the centre, and has been going since around 1992. It describes itself as a cross be ...

Praia da Ursa

Sintra, Portugal

Praia da Ursa sits just north of Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point of mainland Europe, inside the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park. Two large sea stacks ...

Praia da Ilha de Faro - Quinta do Lago gay beach

Faro, Portugal

The gay stretch of the Faro coast is not at the built-up end of Praia de Faro but out on the dunes, on the long sandbar that runs west from Ilha de Fa ...

Playa Troya

Playa de las Américas, Spain

Troya is the town beach directly below the Playa de las Américas strip, which makes it the closest sand to the gay club and the sauna in the south of ...

Playa del Arbeyal

Gijón, Spain

Playa del Arbeyal is Gijón's west beach, between the El Natahoyo and La Calzada districts and well away from the crowds on San Lorenzo. It opened in t ...

Playa de Papagayo

Playa Blanca, Spain

Papagayo is a run of small coves at the southern tip of Lanzarote, inside the Los Ajaches protected area. A dirt track leads in from Playa Blanca and ...

Playa de Mal Nombre

Costa Calma, Spain

Playa de Mal Nombre is an undeveloped beach on the south coast of Fuerteventura, in the Pajara municipality between Costa Calma and Morro Jable. It ru ...

Platja de Talis (Son Bou)

Alaior, Spain

Son Bou is the longest beach on Menorca, about two and a half kilometres of sand on the south coast in the municipality of Alaior. The hotels and the ...

Platja de Binigaus

Es Migjorn Gran, Spain

Binigaus runs for more than a kilometre west of Sant Tomàs and is the largest beach on Menorca that was never built on. Cliffs stand behind it instead ...

Planty behind the Słowacki Theatre

Kraków, Poland

The stretch of the Planty park behind the Słowacki Theatre, between Basztowa and Mikołajska, has been Kraków's best known outdoor cruising spot for ye ...

Plage du Ricanto

Ajaccio, France

The Ricanto is the longest beach in Ajaccio, roughly three kilometres of fine sand running south from Aspretto towards Porticcio, alongside the airpor ...

Petersberg

Erfurt, Germany

The Petersberg is the hill in the middle of Erfurt, about 231 metres up, carrying the Zitadelle Petersberg and the Peterskirche, once the largest Roma ...

Lungomare Nazario Sauro

Bari, Italy

The seafront road east of the old town is Bari's central cruising ground. It runs from behind the Margherita theatre out along the Madonnella district ...

Klappe am Exerzierplatz

Kiel, Germany

The Exerzierplatz is a large open square in the middle of Kiel, used for the weekly market and for events, and the public toilet block at its edge is ...

JJ Private Bar

Benidorm, Spain

JJ Private Bar is a men's cruise bar with sauna facilities on Avinguda d'Uruguai, out past the old town on the way towards the Rincón de Loix side of ...

Historisches Toilettenhaus

Mannheim, Germany

The Toilettenhaus is a listed public convenience on the Rhine promenade in the Lindenhof district, and it has been a cruising spot for men for well ov ...

Governor's Beach

Limassol, Cyprus

Governor's Beach lies at Pentakomo, on the coast between Limassol and Larnaca, where white chalk cliffs drop to dark sand. The gay section is not the ...

Plage nord de l'Étang-Salé-les-Bains

L'Étang-Salé-les-Bains, France

North of the resort at Étang-Salé-les-Bains the sand turns black and the beach empties out. This is the volcanic south-west coast, and the stretch und ...

Plage du Mont Rose

Marseille, France

The Plage du Mont Rose is Marseille's gay beach and its oldest cruising spot on the coast, at the southern end of the Montredon shoreline where the ci ...

Plage de San Giuseppe

Coggia, France

San Giuseppe is over a kilometre of sand on the west coast between Sagone and Casaglione, with thick vegetation along the back of it. Naturism is tole ...

Plage de la Souris Chaude

Les Trois-Bassins, France

Souris Chaude is the gay beach of Réunion. It lies on the west coast at Trois-Bassins, just below the old coast road between Saint-Leu and La Saline, ...

Pissouri Gay Beach

Limassol, Cyprus

Pissouri Gay Beach is the far end of Pissouri Bay, west of Limassol and below the village of Pissouri. It is public ground with no operator, no facili ...

Phoenix Park (Furry Glen)

Dublin, Ireland

Phoenix Park is the big walled park on the west side of Dublin, and its wooded corners have been cruising ground for generations. The two spots people ...

Parkplatz Vogelwoog

Kaiserslautern, Germany

The Vogelwoog car park sits on the western edge of Kaiserslautern, on Vogelwoogstraße near the lake of the same name, with forest on every side. Durin ...

Nudapláž Zlaté piesky

Bratislava, Slovakia

Zlaté piesky is a lake on the north-eastern edge of Bratislava, reachable by public transport from the centre. The nudist beach sits on the shore away ...

Nirvana Beach

Golden Sands, Bulgaria

Nirvana is the naturist beach at the northern end of Golden Sands, past the textile beaches and screened off from them. It is officially designated an ...

Mens Night Pub

Granada, Spain

Mens Night Pub is the cruising bar in Granada and makes no attempt to be anything else. It is on Calle Sol in the centre, one small room with the bar ...

Maze Den Haag

The Hague, Netherlands

Maze on Herengracht is a sex shop and cruising cinema in one, a few minutes from the centre of The Hague. The venue calls itself a shop and an erotic ...

Love Shop

Avignon, France

Love Shop sits on a side street in central Avignon and is the city's indoor cruising address apart from the sauna. The front of the house is an ordina ...

Libidos - Planet der Erotik

Krefeld, Germany

Libidos is a sex shop on the Stephanstraße with a cruising area behind it. There are dark corridors, private video cabins and glory holes, and drinks ...

Le Sling

Lille, France

Le Sling is a cruising club in a former factory near Porte de Valenciennes, running over three levels and open to men only. It has been going since 20 ...

Le Cube

Lille, France

Le Cube has stood beside Lille Flandres station since 2006, three hundred square metres over two floors, and it is two things at once: a sex shop and ...

Villa Ragazzi

Uchaud, France

Villa Ragazzi is a men-only gay guesthouse at Uchaud, on the flat farmland between Nîmes and Montpellier. It calls itself one hundred per cent gay and ...

Nîmes Club Sauna

Nîmes, France

Nîmes Club Sauna is a men-only sauna in the middle of Nîmes, a few streets from the Maison Carrée and the arenas. It says it has been open for more th ...

K13 Club-Sauna

Oldenburg, Germany

K13 is a men-only sauna in the middle of Oldenburg, a short walk from the main station. Admission is from 18. The wet side has a Finnish dry sauna, ...

Höhepunkt

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Höhepunkt is a sex shop with cinema rooms behind it, on Wanner Straße in Bulmke-Hüllen, east of the city centre. Two rooms run films continuously, one ...

Grieslepark

Augsburg, Germany

The Grieslepark is in Lechhausen on the eastern side of Augsburg, running along the Lech, with the entrance on Schillstraße. It is an ordinary neighbo ...

Glacis-Park

Magdeburg, Germany

The Glacis-Park is a long strip of parkland in Stadtfeld Ost, running for some thirteen hectares alongside the Magdeburger Ring. By day it is an ordin ...

Gelterswoog

Kaiserslautern, Germany

Gelterswoog is a lake of about 13 hectares in the woods southwest of Kaiserslautern, at Hohenecken. It has a public bathing beach with a few hundred m ...

Gänsedrecksee

Speyer, Germany

The Gänsedrecksee is the eastern of the two flooded gravel pits in the Binsfeld area north of Speyer, and the one the naturists have largely to themse ...

Erotic-Shop und Sex-Kino

Oldenburg, Germany

An adult shop on Eichenstraße with a sex cinema behind the shop floor, on a quiet residential street well out from the centre of Oldenburg. The shop s ...

Duke's Mound

Brighton, United Kingdom

Duke's Mound is the planted slope that runs up from Madeira Drive between the Palace Pier and the marina, and it has been Brighton's cruising ground f ...

Dovbychka Beach

Kyiv, Ukraine

Dovbychka is Kyiv's best-known naturist beach, a stretch of sand on the Dnipro with no facilities of any kind. It is mixed and not a gay beach as such ...

Dornheckensee

Bonn, Germany

The Dornheckensee is a small, very deep lake in the woods on the eastern edge of Bonn, at the foot of the Ennert above Ramersdorf. It is a flooded bas ...

Dolly Best

Lübeck, Germany

Dolly Best sits on Lederstraße, a busy shopping street at the edge of Lübeck's old town. The front is an adult shop. Everything else is behind it. ...

Digue du Barachois

Saint-Denis, France

The Barachois is the seafront of Saint-Denis, a strip of lawn, old cannons and casuarina trees along Boulevard Gabriel Macé at the north end of the ci ...

De Oeverlanden

Amsterdam, Netherlands

De Oeverlanden is Amsterdam's official cruising area, on the shore of the Nieuwe Meer about eight kilometres southwest of the centre. Public sex is il ...

Charco del Palo

Charco del Palo, Spain

Charco del Palo is a naturist village on the north-east coast of Lanzarote, on the lava shelf below Mala in the municipality of Haría. It was laid out ...

X-TREME Sexkino Graz

Graz, Austria

A sex cinema on the Bahnhofgürtel, a few minutes from the main station. The draw is the cinema labyrinth. There is also a smaller screening room and a ...

Hops & Spirits

Hamm, Germany

Hops & Spirits is a beer bar in the centre of Hamm. Ten taps carry a changing selection, mostly craft beer, and there is wine, coffee, cocktails and b ...

Playa del Puntal

Somo, Spain

Playa del Puntal is the narrow sand spit that reaches out from the Somo side across the bay towards Santander. The passenger boats that cross from the ...

Playa de Valdearenas

Liencres, Spain

Playa de Valdearenas is the long sand beach inside the Dunas de Liencres natural park, west of Santander where the Ría del Pas meets the sea. It is th ...

Playa de Sonabia

Liendo, Spain

Playa de Sonabia is a beach of sand and shingle at the eastern end of Cantabria, tucked beside the larger beach at Oriñón and closed off by the Candin ...

Área de descanso de Jesús del Monte

Hoz de Anero, Spain

The Jesús del Monte rest area sits on the A-8 motorway between Santander and Bilbao, roughly twenty five kilometres east of the city and signposted be ...

ZanzyBar

Saint-Étienne, France

ZanzyBar is a dance bar on rue de la Résistance, in the middle of Saint-Étienne. Disco balls hang from the ceiling and the walls carry portraits of pu ...

Les Eaux Jardins

Saint-Étienne, France

Les Eaux Jardins, usually shortened to LEJ, is a gay sauna on rue d'Arcole in central Saint-Étienne. About 130 square metres take a dry sauna, a hamma ...

Le Mikonos

Saint-Étienne, France

Le Mikonos is an associative gay club a few minutes from Châteaucreux station in Saint-Étienne. Membership is part of getting in. Inside there is a ...

Plage de la Batterie Basse

Toulon, France

The Batterie Basse is a run of small pebble and gravel coves under Cap Brun, on the stretch of coast between the Mourillon beaches and the Anse Mejean ...

Sauna Le Rainbow

La Valette-du-Var, France

Sauna Le Rainbow is a gay sauna at La Valette-du-Var, the commune immediately east of Toulon, a short drive out from the city centre. It occupies the ...

Le Gautama

Toulon, France

Le Gautama is a gay sauna in the middle of Toulon, a short walk from the port and easy to reach on foot from most of the centre. It is men only, and d ...

Eros Cruise

Toulon, France

Eros Cruise is a men-only cruising club on the first floor of a Haussmann building in the centre of Toulon, a few steps from Place de la Liberte. It d ...

Chez Denis-Jo

Toulon, France

Chez Denis-Jo is a small gay bed and breakfast in a flat on Boulevard Mege, in the Vert Coteau part of Toulon north-east of the centre. There are two ...

Boy's Paradise

Toulon, France

Boy's Paradise is a gay discotheque on Boulevard Pierre Toesca in central Toulon. It describes itself as a gay-friendly club open to all comers, and i ...

Pleasure Erotik Shop

Kassel, Germany

Pleasure is an erotic shop with a large gay cinema behind it, on Hedwigstraße a short walk from Kassel main station. The shop is what you see from the ...

Fuldaaue am Bugasee

Kassel, Germany

The Fuldaaue is the open river meadow east of Kassel's centre, and the ground around the Bugasee is where the city cruises outdoors. There is no opera ...

Gay Sauna Bar Cruise

Kassel, Germany

Cruise is a men-only sauna and bar in the Schillerviertel, about seven minutes on foot from Kassel main station. Admission is limited to men over 18. ...

Erotik-Shop No.1

Kassel, Germany

Erotik-Shop No.1 sits on Kölnische Straße, a few minutes from Kassel main station. It calls itself the oldest porn cinema in the city, has been tradin ...

b2 Bar-Lounge

Kassel, Germany

b2 is an LGBTQI* bar and lounge in the Vorderer Westen, the residential quarter west of Kassel's centre. It describes itself in exactly those words an ...

Sauna Le LoTuS

Reims, France

Le LoTuS is a sauna club in the Dauphinot quarter, north of Reims city centre, behind a plain street front on rue de Witry. Inside there is a Finnish ...

3Sauna

Charneca de Caparica, Portugal

3Sauna is the spa of the Villa 3 Caparica hotel, open to day visitors as well as to the people staying in the house. It is a men's sauna, and it calls ...

Café OCKA

Leipzig, Germany

A café on Merseburger Straße in Lindenau, run since 2019 by a FLINTA* collective and self-organised, which in Leipzig's west is a whole description on ...

Bab Touma

Oslo, Norway

Bab Touma is a Syrian restaurant and bar on Grunerlokka, run by a married couple who took over the premises of Bakgarden pa Lokka and opened in Septem ...

Acaju

Iași, Romania

Acaju is a café and bar on Strada Anastasie Fătu and, in practice, the room where the queer crowd in Iași ends up. It has hosted the closing party of ...

Sauna Azzurra

Beuningen, Netherlands

The gay sauna for the Nijmegen area, on the Van Heemstraweg in Beuningen, the next municipality west of the city and about a quarter of an hour out by ...

Marcus-Antonius

Nijmegen, Netherlands

A gay dance cafe on Sint Anthoniusplaats, the small square that also holds the Roze Huis. It calls itself a place to dance, meet people and be yoursel ...

HizzFit

Nijmegen, Netherlands

A gym in the Augustinus building on the Graafseweg that describes itself as POC-owned and trans-led, and that trains queer and trans people specifical ...

Cafe de Plak

Nijmegen, Netherlands

De Plak opened on Bloemerstraat in 1976 and has been run by its own staff since 1982, currently about twenty people who share the decisions and put pa ...

Bar De Regenboog Nijmegen

Nijmegen, Netherlands

A gay bar on Van Welderenstraat, one of the busiest going-out streets in Nijmegen, where it sits among ordinary cafes rather than in any gay quarter. ...

Parkplatz Worringer Reitweg

Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

A forest car park on Worringer Reitweg, in the woods on the western edge of Mülheim where the city runs into Duisburg. It is public ground with no ope ...

Ruhrwellness

Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

Ruhrwellness is a men's sauna in the Styrum district of Mülheim, on Sandstraße near Mülheim-West station. The house holds roughly a thousand square me ...

Hamo Bar

Trondheim, Norway

Hamo is a discopub on Fjordgata in central Trondheim, in premises a previous bar left empty. The name is short for the Norwegian ha det moro, have fun ...

Le Conchette

Taranto, Italy

Le Conchette is a low limestone cliff on the coast south east of Taranto, running below Via Mormore between San Vito and Lama. The name comes from the ...

El Playazo

Vera Playa, Spain

El Playazo runs about four kilometres along the front at Vera Playa, and it is divided along its length rather than fenced off: the northern end is na ...

Costa dei Barbari

Duino-Aurisina, Italy

Costa dei Barbari is the gay and naturist stretch of coast for Trieste, about ten kilometres out of the city near Sistiana. It is rocky rather than sa ...

Cancello Rosso

Taranto, Italy

Cancello Rosso is a small cove under the cliffs at Lama, on the coast south east of Taranto. The name is literally the red gate at the end of Via Buga ...

Anothen

Thessaloniki, Greece

Anothen is a cafe bar on Karolou Ntil, the short street running between Ladadika and the seafront. It works as a cafe first and a bar later, and it ha ...

't Piggenhuis

Breda, Netherlands

't Piggenhuis is a café on the Nieuwstraat in Breda's old centre. A gay café has stood at this address since the late 1970s, and the present bar keeps ...

Cinema Zero Tabus Braga

Braga, Portugal

Cinema Zero Tabus Braga is an adult cinema a few steps from the Braga train station, in a shop unit on Rua Fernando Namora. Inside there are screening ...

Sex Shop PittilinGorri

San Sebastián, Spain

PittilinGorri is an adult shop in Loiola, out past the football ground and a fair walk from the old town. It sells toys, clothing and films. Behind ...

Bar Teorema

San Sebastián, Spain

Teorema is a corner bar in Gros, a couple of streets back from Zurriola beach. There is a pavement terrace, and the crowd is a mix of neighbours, surf ...

Sauna Venconmen

San Sebastián, Spain

Venconmen is the men's sauna of Donostia, a few streets back from the Kursaal in the old town. It calls itself the gay sauna of San Sebastián. Insi ...

Bako Kluba

San Sebastián, Spain

Bako Kluba is a late bar in the Parte Vieja, on one of the narrow streets that carry the pintxo crawl. Its own line for the place is a drinks bar for ...

Queer Cafe

Chișinău, Moldova

Queer Cafe is a community space in Chișinău run for queer people and their allies. It opened in 2024 and has moved twice since. The people who run it ...

Red Raw

Izmir, Turkey

Red Raw is the gay club at 1471. Sokak in Alsancak, the quarter where most of Izmir's nightlife sits. The same address has held the city's gay club th ...

Bigudi Club

Istanbul, Turkey

Bigudi opened in December 2006 as Turkey's first nightclub for women only, founded to make a space that did not exist anywhere else in the country. Si ...

Stay Club Istanbul

Istanbul, Turkey

Stay Club calls itself the only bear club in Turkey, and the room matches the claim. The crowd is mostly masculine men in their twenties to forties, b ...

Pinokyo Terrace Club

Istanbul, Turkey

Pinokyo has been running on a roof terrace off İstiklal Caddesi since 2010, up above Büyük Parmakkapı Sokak with the Beyoğlu rooftops around it. It de ...

Love Dance Point

Istanbul, Turkey

Love Dance Point has been part of the Istanbul gay scene for well over a decade. It sits up in Harbiye rather than down in Beyoğlu with most of the re ...

Istanbul Gay Tours

Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul Gay Tours runs private tours of the city for LGBT+ visitors, with gay or gay-friendly licensed guides. It is a registered member of the Assoc ...

Cheeky Club

Istanbul, Turkey

Cheeky is where the Istanbul night ends. It sits on Tarlabaşı Bulvarı at the edge of Beyoğlu, and little happens there early: the room fills once the ...

Café de Landman

The Hague, Netherlands

Café de Landman is a gay cafe on Denneweg, the street of galleries and antique dealers that runs north out of the centre of The Hague. It has been ope ...

Cafe 't Mandje

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Cafe 't Mandje opened on the Zeedijk on 26 February 1927 and calls itself the oldest queer bar in the Netherlands. Its motto has not changed in a cent ...

Sauna Blindage

Kyiv, Ukraine

Blindage is a gay sauna in Kudriavets, on the descent below Lukianivka and a walk from the centre. There is a dry sauna and a steam room, private cabi ...

Portum

Kyiv, Ukraine

Portum is a gay club on Verkhnii Val in Podil, with two halls, a bar and a large dark room. The upper and lower halls run their own programmes, so two ...

Deutsch-Französischer Garten

Saarbrücken, Germany

The Deutsch-Französischer Garten spreads over about 50 hectares on the south-western edge of Saarbrücken and runs right up to the French border. It is ...

City Erotic

Saarbrücken, Germany

City Erotic runs over three floors and about 1,500 square metres on Lampertstraße, a block behind Saarbrücken's main shopping streets. That makes it o ...

Cinema Zero Tabus Porto

Porto, Portugal

Zero Tabus is an adult cinema in the basement of the Brasília shopping centre on Praça de Mouzinho de Albuquerque, out by the Rotunda da Boavista. It ...

Centre Stage

Manchester, United Kingdom

Centre Stage is tucked into the back streets behind Canal Street, on Bloom Street, and makes no attempt to be current. It calls itself Manchester's le ...

Caterina Pub - Laguna Blu

Palermo, Italy

Palermo's lesbian pub, going since 1998, on Via Squarcialupo near the Vucciria. The sign over the door says Laguna Blu and nobody in the city calls it ...

Cafe Saarein

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Saarein has been on the Elandsstraat in the Jordaan since August 1978, which makes it Amsterdam's oldest lesbian bar by a wide margin. It began as a w ...

Burgklause

Hanover, Germany

The Burgklause is the oldest gay bar in Hannover, opposite the city's oldest half-timbered house in the small surviving piece of the old town. It has ...

Bosc de Castellarnau

Sabadell, Spain

The woods at Castellarnau sit on the northern edge of Sabadell, where the streets give out into pine and scrub above the Ripoll valley. Cruising happe ...

BOIze Bar

Cologne, Germany

BOIze is Cologne's FLINTA* bar, on Friesenstraße near Friesenplatz. It is one of very few bars left in the city for lesbians and queer women, which is ...

Bois de la Bastide

Limoges, France

The Bois de la Bastide is a stretch of woodland on the northern edge of Limoges, next to the Zenith and running down to Lac d'Uzurat. It is laced with ...

Bois de Keroual

Guilers, France

The Bois de Keroual is a public wood on the northwestern edge of Brest, in the neighbouring commune of Guilers, around fifty hectares of paths, lakes ...

Bar jeder Sicht

Mainz, Germany

Bar jeder Sicht is the centre for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people in Mainz, and it is the city's queer bar at the same time. The ass ...

Asimmetric Bar

Cologne, Germany

Asimmetric opened in 2024 on Venloer Straße in Ehrenfeld, away from both central clusters. It is a queer bar that runs as a small culture venue at the ...

Amigo Bar

Copenhagen, Denmark

Amigo is where the night goes when the rest of Copenhagen has closed. It sits on a side street off Vesterbrogade on the Frederiksberg side, opens late ...

The Yenton

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

The Yenton is a gay-owned bed and breakfast on Bournemouth's East Cliff, set in an acre of garden a short walk from the cliff top, the beach and the t ...

Pride Bar

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Pride Bar calls itself Bournemouth's LGBTQ+ community bar, and the programme backs the word up. Alongside the drinking there is bingo, drag and tribut ...

Hamilton Hall

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Hamilton Hall is a men-only, clothing-optional hotel in Springbourne, about half an hour's walk east of the Triangle and ten minutes from the beach. I ...

Atlantica Bar & Club

Newport, United Kingdom

Atlantica sits on Market Street in the centre of Newport, next to the covered market. It is a bar downstairs and a nightclub upstairs. The ground f ...

Flame Bar & Nightclub

Luton, United Kingdom

Flame is Luton's gay bar and nightclub, on Wellington Street in the town centre opposite the Magistrates Court. It opened in 2002 and moved into this ...

Parco Ducale

Parma, Italy

The Parco Ducale is Parma's big central park, laid out in the sixteenth century behind the ducal palace and reworked in the French manner two centurie ...

Thisagio Queer Party

Parma, Italy

Thisagio is a queer club night on the northern edge of Parma. Drag performances, a dance floor, and a crowd that travels in from across the province. ...

Sonida The Club

Brescia, Italy

Sonida is Brescia's gay bar, and at the moment it is the only one the city has. It sits on Via Malta, a short walk south of the railway station, and d ...

White Cafe

Trieste, Italy

White Cafe is a coffee bar on Via Genova, in the streets between Corso Italia and the waterfront. It works as a caffetteria through the day, does quic ...

Viale Romolo Gessi

Trieste, Italy

Viale Romolo Gessi climbs from the Campo Marzio side of Trieste towards the gardens and slopes above it. At night the street and the green ground besi ...

Molo Audace

Trieste, Italy

Molo Audace is the stone pier that runs out into the gulf from the Riva, beside Piazza Unita d'Italia. By day it is the most ordinary thing in Trieste ...

The Chap's

Liège, Belgium

The Chap's is a men's fetish bar and club in Grivegnée, about ten minutes from Liège-Guillemins station. It calls itself a gay fetish bar and says its ...

Le Petit Paris

Liège, Belgium

Le Petit Paris is a bar and café on the Place du Marché, across from the Perron. It is one of the longest-standing LGBTQ+ addresses in the centre of L ...

Le Moustache Club

Liège, Belgium

Le Moustache Club is a small gay bar and club on Rue de la Casquette, in Le Carré, the nightlife quarter at the centre of Liège. The room is intimate ...

Aquari'hom

Liège, Belgium

Aquari'hom is a men's sauna in Longdoz, on the right bank of the Meuse. It presents itself as an LGBT space rather than only a bathhouse, and there is ...

Le 139

Ans, Belgium

Le 139 is a men's sauna on the Rue des Français in Ans, the municipality on the northwestern edge of Liège, and it is quick to reach from the centre. ...

Calanque de Sugiton

Marseille, France

Sugiton is a calanque in the national park south of Marseille, reached on foot from the Luminy campus at the end of bus route 21. The walk takes about ...

Barleber See II

Magdeburg, Germany

Barleber See II is the quieter of the two lakes north of Magdeburg, a former gravel pit of some fifty hectares lying a couple of hundred metres east o ...

Sauna Sauna Northwich

Northwich, United Kingdom

Sauna Sauna is a men's sauna and cruise club on Winnington Lane, a little way out of the town centre, and it calls itself the largest gay sauna in the ...

Le Batchi

Rennes, France

Le Batchi has been the gay club of Rennes since the 1980s and is now the only one left in the city. It sits on rue Vasselot in the centre, a short wal ...

Centuryon

Torremolinos, Spain

Centuryon is the big-room dance club of the Torremolinos scene, on Calle Casablanca a short walk off La Nogalera. House is the house music, played by ...

Nightclub Mixei

Tampere, Finland

Nightclub Mixei opened in January 1990 and is the oldest gay nightclub in Finland still in business. It is also the only one in Tampere and in the wid ...

Pandora Club Jerez

Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

Pandora is the gay club in Jerez and, since it opened in 2018, the main LGBTIQ+ night out in the province of Cadiz. It is a weekend club, and it is bu ...

Slay Club

Lille, France

The Slay Club opened in the Vieux-Lille at the start of 2025 and is the newest queer dance floor in the city. It is run by the team behind Silom Bar, ...

The Nightingale Club

Birmingham, United Kingdom

The Nightingale is the oldest and the largest LGBTQ+ venue in Birmingham. It started in 1969 as a members-only club in a terraced house on Camp Hill, ...

Fireball Bar & Club

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Fireball opened in October 2025 at 4 The Triangle, the address that was the Xchange for years, and it is the newest of Bournemouth's gay venues. The r ...

El Balcon de la Lola

Bilbao, Spain

El Balcon de la Lola is a late-night gay dance club in Bilbao la Vieja, set under old railway arches. The industrial shell has been left much as it wa ...

DYMK Bar & Club

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

DYMK stands for Does Your Mother Know, and it is the club most people in Bournemouth mean when they talk about a gay night out. It sits at the top of ...

Discoteca Olympo

Oviedo, Spain

Discoteca Olympo is a gay club on Calle Campoamor, a few doors from Neo Versache's. The two of them are most of what Oviedo's gay nightlife amounts to ...

Club NYX

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Club NYX is the queer club of the Reguliersdwarsstraat, three floors in the building it shares with Exit Cafe. Each floor runs its own sound, so a sin ...

Club Elixir

Timișoara, Romania

Club Elixir is the gay club in Timișoara, in the basement of the 700 Office building on Strada Gheorghe Lazăr, a few minutes from Piața Victoriei. It ...

Club Adonis

Ghent, Belgium

Club Adonis is a men-only club in Drongen, on the western edge of Gent, and has been running since 2005. It is a private club and admits adults only. ...

Botanic

Vera Playa, Spain

Botanic is the gay club on the short strip at Vera Playa, a few doors along Avenida Ciudad de Barcelona from the area's gay pub. It calls itself the o ...

Alexander Club

Sunny Beach, Bulgaria

Alexander Club is the gay nightclub of Sunny Beach, inside the Royal Beach Mall at the Barcelo. It opened in 2023 and carries on the name of a club th ...

Studland Naturist Beach

Studland, United Kingdom

Studland is the best known naturist beach in Britain and the gay beach for the whole Bournemouth and Poole area. The designated naturist stretch runs ...

Playa de Parreño

Cartagena, Spain

Playa de Parreño is a 300-metre strip of golden sand at the eastern end of the Calblanque regional park, in the municipality of Cartagena. It is offic ...

Platja de l'Altet

Elche, Spain

L'Altet is the northernmost of Elche's beaches, the one closest to Alicante and to the airport, and for most of its length it is an ordinary family be ...

Madona Beach

Kalogria, Greece

Madona is the nudist end of Kalogria, a sand beach of about nine kilometres on the north-western coast of the Peloponnese. It lies behind a low hill a ...

FKK-Strand Priwall

Lübeck, Germany

The Priwall is the spit of land facing Travemünde across the mouth of the Trave, at the eastern edge of Lübeck. Its Baltic side is a wide, fine sand b ...

Cala Racó del Conill

Villajoyosa, Spain

Racó del Conill is a cove on the stretch of coast between Benidorm and Villajoyosa, and it is the best known gay beach in this part of the Costa Blanc ...

Eastney Beach

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Eastney Beach is the pebble shore at the eastern end of the Southsea seafront, and the naturist stretch on it has been in use for decades. A sign on t ...

Tropics Day Spa

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Tropics Day Spa is Portsmouth's gay sauna and the only one in Hampshire. It has been going for close to thirty years, near the top of Commercial Road ...

The Greenhouse Sauna Darlaston

Darlaston, United Kingdom

The Greenhouse is a sauna and health club for gay and bisexual men, in a detached four-storey building standing in its own grounds on Willenhall Road. ...

The Greenhouse Newport

Newport, United Kingdom

The Greenhouse is a sauna for gay and bisexual men on Church Street, just south of Newport city centre. It has been running for twenty years and calls ...

The Greenhouse

Luton, United Kingdom

The Greenhouse is a gay sauna on Crawley Road, a short walk from Luton town centre. It is one of three clubs the same operator runs in Britain, and th ...

Saunabar

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Saunabar is the gay sauna for Bournemouth and the wider south west coast, and it sits a minute from The Triangle rather than out on an industrial esta ...

Sauna Soho

Lille, France

Sauna Soho has been in the centre of Lille since 2007, a short walk from both main stations, and is men only. It calls itself the largest gay sauna in ...

Sauna Le Saint

Bordeaux, France

Le Saint is a libertine sauna on Rue Saint-Joseph that takes a mixed crowd rather than a men-only one. Gay, bi and straight visitors are all admitted, ...

Boys Sauna

Oviedo, Spain

Boys Sauna is the only gay sauna in Oviedo, and the only one in Asturias. It sits on Calle Luis Braille in Pumarin, a residential district north-east ...

Attitude Sauna

Brest, France

Attitude Sauna sits on a quiet side street near the church of Saint-Martin, a short walk from the middle of Brest. It took over the premises of the ci ...

EK2 Erlebniskino

Oberhausen, Germany

EK2 is a sex cinema on Grenzstraße in the south of Oberhausen, close to the Mülheim boundary. The same operator runs two further cinemas in Duisburg. ...

Blowmax

Oberhausen, Germany

Blowmax is a sex cinema and erotic shop in Lirich, a district west of Oberhausen city centre. Behind the shop there are video cabins, gloryholes, dark ...

7 Sins Beach

Almería, Spain

7 Sins Beach is the daytime half of Almería's small gay scene, a beach bar on the coast road east of the city run by the people behind the bar in the ...

Seven Sins

Almería, Spain

Seven Sins is the gay bar in the middle of Almería, on a short street in the old town, and it is the only one the city has left. It calls itself a bea ...

xxxParadise

Turku, Finland

An erotic shop with a cinema and eleven private rooms behind it, on Läntinen Pitkäkatu a short walk from the bus and railway stations. It has been tra ...

Bar Suxes

Turku, Finland

Turku's only gay bar, on Yliopistonkatu a couple of blocks from the market square. It opened in 2004 and is one of the few bars in the city still in i ...

Le Gigi Charleroi

Charleroi, Belgium

Le Gigi Charleroi is a small, friendly gay bar in the Upper Town, located at 9 Rue de France, just a short walk from Place Vauban. For more than 26 ...

Le Boys Charleroi

Charleroi, Belgium

Le Boys is an LGBTQIA+ bar on Place de la Digue, in the Ville-Basse district of Charleroi. It opened in August 2023 in the premises that had been the ...

Nicolette

Pamplona, Spain

Nicolette has been on Calle Tejería, in the Navarrería part of Pamplona's old town, since around the turn of the century. It shut in 2023 after 23 yea ...

Los Portales Pub

Pamplona, Spain

Los Portales is a basement bar under Plaza Recoletas in Pamplona's old town, reached by a flight of stairs down from the square. It calls itself the h ...

Bar Atxiki

Pamplona, Spain

Bar Atxiki is on Calle Nueva, at the San Nicolás end of Pamplona's old town, a short walk from the rest of the scene. It is a small, plain place: a ba ...

Metro Padova Sauna Club

Padova, Italy

Metro is the gay sauna in Padua, a few minutes on foot from the railway station and part of the small cluster of men's clubs on Via Turazza. It run ...

Hot Dog Club Padova

Padova, Italy

Hot Dog is the cruising club in Padua, men only, open since May 2007. It sits on Via Turazza next to the city's sauna and its gay nightclub. Past t ...

Flexo Padova Club

Padova, Italy

Flexo is the main gay nightclub in Padua, on the same short street as the city's sauna and its cruising club. By its own account it has been running s ...

Club Officina

Limena, Italy

Officina is a cruising bar and disco in Limena, about ten kilometres north of Padua, so getting there means a car or a taxi. Inside there is a bar, ...

Tranchée des Dames

Sarreguemines, France

Tranchée des Dames is a forest track in the Buchholz woods on the southern edge of Sarreguemines. It leaves the Route de Nancy on the way out of town ...

Angela Line

Homburg, Germany

Angela Line is an adult shop on Eisenbahnstraße, in the middle of Homburg and a few minutes from the station. Behind the retail floor are video cab ...

Sex Shop Metropolis

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Sex Shop Metropolis is on Nueva Fuera, a quiet street inside the medieval centre of Vitoria-Gasteiz. It opened in the early 1980s and is the oldest sh ...

The Brighton Box Gallery

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Brighton Box is an LGBTQ+-owned gallery and gift shop on Dukes Lane, in the middle of the Lanes shopping streets rather than out in Kemptown. It o ...

Pikante Oviedo

Oviedo, Spain

Pikante is an adult shop on Calle Gil de Jaz, inside the Galerias Pidal arcade behind El Corte Ingles. It is one of a chain with branches in ten Spani ...

NORA Book & Coffee

Turin, Italy

NORA is a bookshop and a cafe in the same room, on a narrow street in the Quadrilatero, and it has been there since 2017. The shelves carry around fiv ...

Libreria Antigone

Milan, Italy

Antigone opened on Via Kramer in 2016 as an LGBTQ+ and transfeminist bookshop and has become the reference point for that kind of reading in Milan. Th ...

LGS Leder Gummi Studio

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

LGS is a fetish shop a few minutes from Gelsenkirchen Hauptbahnhof, trading in latex, leather and rubber. The stock covers clothing, bondage gear, toy ...

Eurovisex Sex Shop Benidorm

Benidorm, Spain

Eurovisex is an erotic shop on Carrer de Sant Roc, a few streets from the Benidorm gay village and the nearest shop of its kind to the old town bars. ...

erogene Zone

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

erogene Zone is a queer feminist sex shop and education collective on the Grethergelände, in the same courtyard as the city's LGBTIQ centre. It is run ...

Artemis Books

Aachen, Germany

Artemis Books is the first queer and feminist bookshop in Aachen, a small shop on Kleinmarschierstraße a few streets south of the cathedral. About hal ...

Das Sarah

Stuttgart, Germany

Das Sarah is a women's cultural centre in Stuttgart-West and, by its own account and Wikipedia's, the oldest in Germany. It was founded in 1978 as an ...

Bøssehuset

Copenhagen, Denmark

Bøssehuset is the queer culture house in Christiania and is almost as old as Christiania itself. The barracks were occupied in 1971 and a group of gay ...

Spiaggia Naturista San Saba - Capo Rasocolmo

Messina, Italy

The last stretch of San Saba beach, out at Capo Rasocolmo on Messina's Tyrrhenian coast, is one of the few officially recognised naturist areas in Sic ...

Yöhuikka

Oulu, Finland

Yöhuikka is the only gay bar in Oulu, and one of very few in Finland outside Helsinki, Turku and Tampere. It stands on Asemakatu in the city centre, a ...

Musikcafe Sax

Linz, Austria

Musikcafe Sax is in the old town on Klammstraße, a few minutes from the main square. The room is done in deep red and gold, with painted panels, gilt ...

Ohne Zwang

Ansfelden, Austria

Ohne Zwang is a cruising bar in Freindorf, a district of Ansfelden, about twenty-five minutes from Linz main station by public transport. It calls its ...

forty nine

Linz, Austria

forty nine is the queer bar of the Linz LGBT association, on the ground floor of the association's centre a few minutes from the main station. It open ...

Blue Heaven

Linz, Austria

Blue Heaven is a bar for men in the Neustadtviertel, a few streets from the main station and from the Linz queer centre. A neon sign over the door car ...

Zilverstrand

Almere, Netherlands

Zilverstrand is a stretch of sand on the Gooimeer at the southern edge of Almere, just east of the A6 and the Hollandse Brug. It is split in two. The ...

Maori

Valletta, Malta

Maori is a low bar on the water at Triq il-Lanċa, under the Valletta bastions and across from the wreck of HMS Maori that gives it its name. The build ...

Sa Maison Gardens

Floriana, Malta

Sa Maison is a public garden cut into the outer Valletta fortifications, on the slope between Floriana and Pietà. It runs over five narrow terraces sq ...

Kaktüs Queer Bar Ta' Xbiex

Ta' Xbiex, Malta

The second Kaktüs sits on the Ta' Xbiex waterfront, on the marina between Sliema and Msida, and opened in 2025. Same people as the Sliema café, more r ...

Kaktüs Cafe & Booze

Sliema, Malta

Kaktüs is a queer, women-owned café and bar on Triq Amery, two streets back from the Sliema seafront. It runs as a coffee shop in the daytime and a ba ...

Private City Tours Lübeck

Lübeck, Germany

Private City Tours Lübeck runs walks through the old town for individuals, families, groups of friends, school classes and work outings. They are give ...

Hotel Queens

Benidorm, Spain

Hotel Queens is a small adults-only hotel on Plaça de la Constitució, the square at the lower end of Benidorm's old town where the gay village starts. ...

Villas Blancas

Maspalomas, Spain

Villas Blancas is a gay naturist resort of thirty villas in tropical gardens by the Campo de Golf, and it calls itself the largest of its kind on Gran ...

Bungalows Tenesoya

Maspalomas, Spain

Tenesoya is a small men-only bungalow complex on Avenida de Tenerife in Playa del Ingles, close enough to the Yumbo Centre to walk home from it. It ...

Bungalows Artemisa

Maspalomas, Spain

Artemisa is a men-only bungalow complex on Calle Timple in Playa del Ingles, a few streets back from the seafront and within walking distance of the Y ...

Plage du Ricanto

Ajaccio, France

The Ricanto is the longest beach in Ajaccio, close to three kilometres of sand running south from the edge of the city towards Porticcio. The naturist ...

Plage de Stagnolu

Bonifacio, France

Stagnolu is about three hundred metres of fine white sand on the Sant'Amanza side of Bonifacio, with dunes behind it, a pond further back and the moun ...

Plage de Portigliolo

Propriano, France

Portigliolo is a long beach in the Gulf of Valinco south of Propriano, straddling the boundary with Belvédère-Campomoro. The naturist corner is at the ...

Plage de Capo di Feno

Ajaccio, France

Capo di Feno is a kilometre of sand on the exposed northwest coast, reached off the Sanguinaires road and then down the D111B. The naturist section is ...

Plage d'Aregno

Algajola, France

Aregno beach runs about 1.4 kilometres along the Balagne coast from Algajola towards the point of Varcale. The northern end has low dunes, stays quiet ...

Étangs d'Apigné

Rennes, France

The Étangs d'Apigné are lakes in the Prévalaye green belt on the western edge of Rennes, reachable in fifteen to thirty minutes by bike from the centr ...

Ponq

Košice, Slovakia

Ponq is a cafe, bar and community centre on Hrnčiarska, the craft alley in the old town, a few minutes from Hlavná and the railway station. It opened ...

Cafe Peanuts

Tilburg, Netherlands

Cafe Peanuts is a gay cafe on Stadhuisstraat, a short side street in the middle of Tilburg. It stands directly next to Cafe de Wijn, and the two toget ...

De Lollipop

Tilburg, Netherlands

De Lollipop calls itself the best known gay venue in the Netherlands. It ran for twenty-five years as a permanent bar at Paleisring 25, inside the Emm ...

Cafe de Wijn

Tilburg, Netherlands

Cafe de Wijn stands at Stadhuisstraat 17, immediately next to Cafe Peanuts. It calls itself the cosiest little cafe in Tilburg, and the street it stan ...

Wilde

Cork, Ireland

Wilde is Cork's only dedicated LGBTQ+ nightclub, on Oliver Plunkett Street in the city centre. It took over from the venue previously known as Vibe, a ...

Brief Encounters

Cork, Ireland

Brief Encounters is a cruise club and adult store on Connell Street, just off Lapps Quay and a short walk from the middle of Cork. It is the city's in ...

Bit 77

Krefeld, Germany

Bit 77 is a corner pub in Cracau, a residential district east of Krefeld's centre, on a stretch of the Luisenstraße made up of flats and small shops r ...

Platja del Carabassi

Elche, Spain

El Carabassi is the best known of the free beaches on this stretch of coast, and the one most people mean when they talk about going naked near Alican ...

Platja del Rebollo

Elche, Spain

El Rebollo is the gay beach of Elche, and the one the local scene names first. It lies at the southern end of the municipality's coast, past La Marina ...

Sultana Lounge Bar

Elche, Spain

Elche has one gay bar and this is it. Sultana sits on a narrow street in la Vila, the old town, a few minutes from the Basilica de Santa Maria, and fo ...

Spiaggia della Lecciona

Torre del Lago Puccini, Italy

The Lecciona is seven kilometres of undeveloped coast between Torre del Lago and Viareggio, and it is the reason gay Italy started coming here in the ...

Pritličje

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Pritličje occupies the ground floor of the building beside the town hall, in the middle of the old town. The name means ground floor, and the house ca ...

Claro Boba!

A Coruña, Spain

Claro Boba is the one bar in A Coruña that puts LGBTQI+ on its own front door rather than on a list of things it tolerates. It sits on Rúa do Socorro, ...

Parque de los Pericones

Gijón, Spain

Parque de los Pericones is the hill park above Ceares, south east of the centre, big enough to hold a dog run, picnic ground and playgrounds with room ...

Parque de Isabel la Católica

Gijón, Spain

Parque de Isabel la Católica is the big landscaped park at the eastern end of the San Lorenzo seafront, laid out around a lake with an aviary and a gr ...

The Gaylic

Gijón, Spain

The Gaylic sits on Calle Claudio Alvargonzález in Cimavilla, the old fishermen's quarter, a short walk from the sports port. It opened in early 2025 a ...

Oh La La

Gijón, Spain

Oh La La is the club end of queer nightlife in Gijón, in a basement on Calle Santa Lucía in the El Carmen part of the centre. Gay and lesbian crowds t ...

Dark Room Benidorm

Benidorm, Spain

Dark Room is a men-only gay bar on Carrer d'Alacant, in the middle of the Benidorm gay village. The name is literal: there is a dark room at the back, ...

Company Bar

Benidorm, Spain

Company Bar is on Carrer de Sant Miquel, one of the handful of old town streets that make up Benidorm's gay village. There is a terrace on the street, ...

Casa Don Juan

Benidorm, Spain

Casa Don Juan is a small guest house on Carrer de la Santa Faç, which is the street most of Benidorm's gay bars are on. It is a converted town house w ...

Cala del Tió Ximo

Benidorm, Spain

Cala del Tió Ximo is a small pebble and rock cove on the seaward side of the Serra Gelada headland, past the far end of Levante beach. It is one of tw ...

Betty Boo's Benidorm

Benidorm, Spain

Betty Boo's is a small bar on Carrer d'Alacant, one of the streets the Benidorm gay village runs along. Cocktails are the main business, and dogs are ...

Barcode Secret 2

Benidorm, Spain

Barcode Secret 2 is a gay bar on Carrer d'Alacant, a few doors from the middle of the Benidorm gay village. It is cash only, which is worth knowing be ...

Bar Poco Loco

Benidorm, Spain

Bar Poco Loco is a gay bar on Carrer de Sant Vicent, one street back from the busiest part of the Benidorm gay village. It is a late bar rather than a ...

Bar 69

Benidorm, Spain

Bar 69 stands on Plaça de la Constitució, the square at the lower end of Benidorm's old town where the gay village starts. Its terrace takes up a corn ...

Parc du Glacis

Strasbourg, France

The Glacis is a long strip of green along the canal on the Cronenbourg side of Strasbourg, running past allotment gardens towards Koenigshoffen. It re ...

Parc de la Citadelle

Strasbourg, France

The Parc de la Citadelle is a large public park on the Esplanade side of Strasbourg, laid out around what is left of Vauban's seventeenth-century fort ...

Parc de l'Orangerie

Strasbourg, France

The Orangerie is the oldest and best known park in Strasbourg, a formal eighteenth-century layout next to the European institutions, with a boating la ...

Sauna Carré Rouge

Rennes, France

Sauna Carré Rouge opened in 2014 on rue de la Donelière, in the commercial strip north of the Rennes centre, and it takes men only: gay, bi and curiou ...

Sauna California

Rennes, France

Sauna California is a gay sauna on rue de Léon, a few minutes on foot from Rennes station. It runs over three floors and around 800 square metres, whi ...

Sauna Eros Elle & Lui

Limoges, France

Sauna Eros is the gay sauna in Limoges, in the city centre off Rue Jean Jaures. The entrance is through Passage Mermoz, a covered passage rather than ...

L'Improbable

Limoges, France

L'Improbable is a gay and lesbian bar in La Cite, the oldest quarter of Limoges, a short walk below the cathedral and the terraced gardens that drop a ...

L'Atlantis

Aytré, France

L'Atlantis is the sauna most people mean when they talk about the La Rochelle sauna, although it stands just outside the city, in the Belle Aire indus ...

QG Sauna

La Rochelle, France

QG Sauna stands on Avenue Coligny in the Mail district of La Rochelle, a short walk from the Casino and the seafront. It is the only sauna inside the ...

Sauna Les Salins

Clermont-Ferrand, France

Les Salins is a men-only sauna a short walk from the coach station in Clermont-Ferrand, in the quarter it takes its name from. The street gate is kept ...

Le Marais

Clermont-Ferrand, France

Le Marais is the gay bar of Clermont-Ferrand, on rue Fontgiève a few streets north-west of the old centre. It has been open since 2008 and calls itsel ...

Sauna Saint Michel

Avignon, France

Sauna Saint Michel is the gay sauna in Avignon, and it describes itself as the only one in the whole of the Vaucluse. The building has been a sauna fo ...

L'Esclave

Avignon, France

L'Esclave has carried the same name on the same narrow street inside Avignon's walls since 1983, and it is the one gay club the city has. The Rhône is ...

Tropical la Zona

Maspalomas, Spain

Tropical la Zona is a men-only bungalow resort in Playa del Ingles, laid out among palms and gardens rather than stacked in a block. Twenty-four one-b ...

Zoom Club

Porto, Portugal

Zoom is the largest gay club in Porto, set in a converted warehouse on Rua de Passos Manuel in the Baixa. The main room is built around a big dance fl ...

The Portuguese Cock

Porto, Portugal

The Portuguese Cock is a ceramics shop on Rua das Oliveiras in the Baixa, a few minutes from the Galerias. It takes the standard Portuguese souvenirs, ...

The Hole Cruising Bar

Porto, Portugal

The Hole is the cruising bar in Porto, on Rua da Alegria east of the centre. It is men only and it is the only venue of its kind in the city. There ...

Sauna Thermas 205

Porto, Portugal

Thermas 205 is the biggest gay sauna in Porto, on Rua Guedes de Azevedo in the city centre. The building number is 203 but the door you want is 205, w ...

Sauna Camões

Porto, Portugal

Sauna Camões is a gay sauna on Rua do Bonjardim, a short walk up from the Bolhão market. It is the smaller and quieter of the two saunas in Porto, and ...

Move Club

Porto, Portugal

Move Club is a queer club on Rua do Bonjardim, up near Praça do Marquês de Pombal and away from the Baixa cluster. The address has a long history in g ...

Mister Cock

Porto, Portugal

Mister Cock is a sex shop aimed at gay men, and as far as its owners are aware the only one in Portugal that sells to that market alone. It runs mainl ...

Livraria Aberta

Porto, Portugal

Livraria Aberta is a queer bookshop on Rua do Paraíso, east of the centre towards Bonfim. It describes itself as a queer bookshop in exactly those wor ...

Labirintho

Porto, Portugal

Labirintho occupies several rooms of an old house on Rua de Nossa Senhora de Fátima, out towards Boavista and well away from the Baixa crowds. It has ...

Invictus Café Bar

Porto, Portugal

Invictus is a gay bar on Rua da Conceição, in the shopping arcade under the WOT hotel and a short walk from the Galerias de Paris nightlife strip. It ...

Fabrik Bar

Porto, Portugal

Fabrik is a cocktail bar on Rua da Galeria de Paris, in the middle of the densest nightlife street in Porto. The interior is industrial, concrete and ...

Deuxmecs Porto

Porto, Portugal

Deuxmecs is the first LGBTQIA+ hotel in Porto, on Rua dos Caldeireiros between the Clérigos tower and the Baixa. The house dates from the early twenti ...

Café Lusitano

Porto, Portugal

Café Lusitano opened in 2005 and was one of the first openly LGBT venues in Porto. It sits in the Baixa on Rua de José Falcão, behind a plain door in ...

Bar of Soap

Porto, Portugal

Bar of Soap is a queer bar on Rua do Bolhão, run as much as a meeting place as a drinking one. It shuts earlier than the clubs, which is rather the po ...

1906 Club

Porto, Portugal

1906 Club is a private members' club for gay men, running in Porto since 2015 as a non-profit. It has no shopfront and publishes no address: the locat ...

The Reporter

Belfast, United Kingdom

The Reporter opened on Union Street in 2021 and takes its theme from Belfast's newspaper printing and publishing trade, with press memorabilia around ...

Bar De Regenboog

Eindhoven, Netherlands

De Regenboog is Eindhoven's gay bar, about halfway down Stratumseind, the long run of pubs that carries most of the city's night-time drinking. It ope ...

Cabo Estay

Vigo, Spain

Cabo Estay is not a beach but a stretch of rock on the coast south of Vigo, in the city parish of San Miguel de Oia, below the oceanographic centre an ...

Der Hügel

Münster, Germany

The Hügel is the rise at the Kreuzschanze, where Münster's ring promenade passes the Buddenturm at the north-western corner of the old town. Locally i ...

Binsfeldsee

Speyer, Germany

The Binsfeldsee is the larger of the two Binsfeld lakes north of Speyer, about seven hectares of flooded gravel pit with a long broken shoreline of sm ...

Baggersee am Stern

Potsdam, Germany

A former gravel pit at the edge of the Am Stern district in the south east of Potsdam. Officially it is the Schäfersee; everyone calls it the Baggerse ...

Autobahnsee

Augsburg, Germany

The Autobahnsee sits on the eastern edge of Augsburg by the Augsburg-Ost junction of the A8, just south of the airfield. It was dug in the 1940s for g ...

glitch Bookstore

Munich, Germany

glitch is a queerfeminist bookshop in the Maxvorstadt, run by a collective of about thirty people on a voluntary basis. It exists because Germany's fi ...

Sauna Les Bains

Lille, France

Les Bains is a men-only sauna on rue de Cambrai spread over four floors. It calls itself the largest male space in the north of France and the south o ...

RundO Saunaclub

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

RundO is a men-only sauna club in Lehen, on the north western edge of Freiburg and a fair way out from the Altstadt. It is laid out for a long stay: a ...

Café de Prins

Groningen, Netherlands

Café de Prins has been the gay bar on Zwanestraat since 2017. Three friends opened it on the grounds that there was too little going on in Groningen f ...

The Village Inn

Birmingham, United Kingdom

The Village Inn is one of the older LGBTQ+ bars in Birmingham and one of the busiest. It sits on the Lower Essex Street corner of the Nightingale buil ...

Badulake

Bilbao, Spain

Badulake is a bar and cafe-theatre on Hernani kalea, in Bilbao la Vieja on the south bank of the estuary. It opened in 2000 and has been part of the c ...

Boombox

Belfast, United Kingdom

Boombox is the club above The Maverick, with its own door on Donegall Street rather than an entrance through the bar. The music is mostly pop and t ...

Weiher im Beller Park

Mönchengladbach, Germany

Beller Park lies in Odenkirchen, in the south of Mönchengladbach, with the Niers running through it and a pond near its middle. The cruising happens a ...

Rheinelbe Park

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Rheinelbe Park is a public green space in Ückendorf, in the south of Gelsenkirchen. It is a large area with a small lake, laid out for walking and run ...

Opfinger See

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

The Opfinger See is a former gravel pit west of Freiburg, between the Rieselfeld district and the village of Opfingen. At over forty hectares it is th ...

Jardin Vauban

Lille, France

The Jardin Vauban is a public English garden laid out in 1863 on the edge of the Vauban-Esquermes quarter, with the Citadelle and its woods behind it. ...

Spiaggia di San Nicolò

Venice, Italy

Spiaggia di San Nicolò sits at the northern end of the Lido, by the lagoon entrance and the small airport. It is a long way from the busy middle of th ...

Spiaggia degli Alberoni

Venice, Italy

Spiaggia degli Alberoni is the free beach at the southern tip of the Lido, backed by the largest dune system left on the Venetian coast. The dunes and ...

Naaktstrand Hoornse Plas

Groningen, Netherlands

The Hoornse Plas is a lake on the south edge of Groningen, dug in the early 1970s as the northern arm of the Paterswoldsemeer, and the southern shore ...

W.M.

Strasbourg, France

W.M. is a small gay sex shop on Grand'Rue, in the middle of the pedestrian centre. The shop itself is about seventy square metres at street level, wit ...

Sa Majesté Ibiza

Ibiza, Spain

Sa Majesté is a fetish shop near the top of Carrer de la Mare de Déu, standing among the bars rather than in a shopping street. It calls itself the on ...

Pikante Sex Shop A Coruña

A Coruña, Spain

Pikante is a sex shop on Rúa Fernando Macías, one street back from Riazor beach, and it is the cabins at the back rather than the shelves at the front ...

Pikante Gijón

Gijón, Spain

Pikante on Calle Ezcurdia is Gijón's branch of a Spanish adult shop chain that trades in nine cities. The stock runs to several thousand items across ...

Frauenbuchladen Xanthippe

Mannheim, Germany

Xanthippe is a feminist bookshop in the T3 block, founded in 1978 out of the women's movement and still run on the same idea. It calls itself queer an ...

Contexto Queer

Valencia, Spain

Contexto Queer is an LGBTIQA+ bookshop on Avinguda del Primat Reig, north-east of the centre and away from the Ruzafa cluster. The stock is built arou ...

Clonezone Birmingham

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Clonezone is the gay lifestyle shop on Hurst Street, in the middle of the village and a few doors from the bars. It sells underwear and jockstraps, cl ...

Zaza Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Zaza opened in 1989 in the Cita Centre and moved to the Yumbo Centrum later, which makes it one of the oldest names in the Maspalomas scene. It change ...

DarkHouse Verona

San Martino Buon Albergo, Italy

DarkHouse is a private men-only club on the eastern edge of Verona, in San Martino Buon Albergo close to the A4 Verona Est exit. It has been running s ...

New York New York

Manchester, United Kingdom

New York New York has been on Bloom Street for over thirty years and calls itself the party palace of the Gay Village. It is two bars in one building: ...

JJ Bar Ibiza

Ibiza, Spain

JJ sits at the far end of Carrer de la Mare de Déu, past most of the other bars on the lane. It calls itself the first gay bar in Ibiza. Inside it ...

DADO Bar Ibiza

Ibiza, Spain

DADO is a cocktail bar on Carrer de la Mare de Déu, the narrow pedestrian lane in Sa Penya that almost everyone calls Calle de la Virgen and where mos ...

Bar Candela

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Bar Candela is a small bar on Plaza de Pepe Ubis, a square a few minutes east of the medieval centre of Vitoria-Gasteiz. Most of what happens here is ...

Zu Marleen

Halle (Saale), Germany

Zu Marleen is a restaurant in Halle's Lutherplatz quarter built around its own travesty show. The house production, Janishow, mixes music, comedy and ...

Rooster

Athens, Greece

Rooster is a gay cafe and restaurant on Plateia Agias Eirinis in Monastiraki, on a square that has become one of the busiest in central Athens. It sta ...

Café Babalú

Reykjavík, Iceland

Café Babalú is a queer owned cafe in a small yellow and orange corner house on Skólavörðustígur, on the climb up towards Hallgrímskirkja. It has been ...

Paso Chico Gran Canaria

Maspalomas, Spain

Paso Chico is a men-only apartment complex directly opposite the Yumbo Centre, which is an unlikely address for a quiet place and is exactly what gues ...

Parkplatz Am Tunnel

Aachen, Germany

Am Tunnel is a rest area on the A44 at the eastern edge of Aachen, out past Eilendorf. It is an ordinary parking place with picnic tables, benches and ...

Bulmker Park

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Bulmker Park is a public park in Bulmke-Hüllen, a little over twelve hectares of it, with a pond taking up close to one. By day it is an ordinary city ...

Citadelpark

Ghent, Belgium

Citadelpark is the big public park just north of Gent-Sint-Pieters station, laid out on the ground of a nineteenth-century fortress. Two of the city's ...

District35

Ljubljana, Slovenia

District35 is the largest gay sauna in Slovenia and the one most visitors end up at. It sits in the Stegne industrial estate in the north west of Ljub ...

Gymnasivm

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Gymnasivm is a men only sauna club in a converted house on Ulica Pohorskega bataljona, in a mixed residential and light industrial pocket north of the ...

Liquid Club

Verona, Italy

Liquid Club is the gay sauna in Verona, a short ride from the historic centre. It took over the bathhouse that had stood at the address before it and ...

Metrò Venezia Club

Venice, Italy

Metrò Venezia Club is a men's sauna in Mestre, a few minutes on foot from the Venezia Mestre train station. Venice's historic centre has no gay venues ...

Pampezar

Gijón, Spain

Pampezar is the gay sauna in Gijón, on Calle Ceán Bermúdez in the El Llano district, a walk east of the centre. It is men only, and it calls itself th ...

Sauna Deutsche Eiche

Munich, Germany

The Badehaus behind the Hotel Deutsche Eiche has been running since 1995 and is the largest men's sauna in Germany. You get in through the hotel recep ...

Sauna Element

Bilbao, Spain

Sauna Element is the smaller and quieter of Bilbao's two gay saunas, around 650 square metres in the central Abando district. It is men only. The f ...

Sauna Odín

A Coruña, Spain

Sauna Odín is the only gay sauna in A Coruña. It is in Os Castros, a residential district south east of the centre, on a short side street rather than ...

Sauna Tibet

Eindhoven, Netherlands

Sauna Tibet is a men-only sauna on the southern edge of Eindhoven, where the city runs into the Genneper Parken nature area. The De Tongelreep swimmin ...

Spades4Gents

Ghent, Belgium

Spades4Gents is a gay sauna complex a few minutes' walk from Gent-Sint-Pieters station, which makes it easy to reach on the way into the city or on th ...

Playa de Serín

Gijón, Spain

Playa de Serín is a small cove about five kilometres east of Gijón, tucked in beside its neighbour La Cagonera on the stretch of coast below Somió. Fo ...

Playa de San Lorenzo

Gijón, Spain

San Lorenzo is the beach Gijón is built along, a wide arc of sand running the length of the city centre with a promenade above it and numbered stairca ...

Playa de Peñarrubia

Gijón, Spain

Peñarrubia is the nudist beach of Gijón, on the coast below Somió between the city and Serín. It runs about five hundred and fifty metres and is never ...

Bear Gijón Bar

Gijón, Spain

Bear Gijón Bar is the bear bar of the Asturian coast, on Calle Capua a few streets back from the marina in the Los Campos part of the centre. The crow ...

Clubsauna Outside

Chemnitz, Germany

Clubsauna Outside is a gay sauna in Gablenz, a residential district east of the Chemnitz city centre. It runs to about 500 square metres across two fl ...

Backstage

A Coruña, Spain

Backstage opened in 2009 in Ruela da Estacada, an alley in the old fishing quarter behind the marina, and for years it was the gay club in a city that ...

Philippe Bar Queer

Bordeaux, France

Philippe is a queer bar in the middle of Bordeaux, on Rue Bouquière in the Saint-Paul quarter. It opened after several of the city's LGBTQ+ venues shu ...

Ultra Klubs

Bordeaux, France

Ultra Klubs is the biggest late night LGBTQ+ club in Bordeaux, on Place André Meunier on the right bank of the Garonne. It opened in 2017 and holds ar ...

Crunch Sauna

Bordeaux, France

Crunch Sauna is a men-only gay sauna near the Palais de Justice tram stop, a few minutes west of the Bordeaux centre. It opened after the fire that de ...

Tunel Club

Ostrava, Czech Republic

Tunel Club is a sex-positive gay club in Mariánské Hory, north west of the centre. The entrance is on Daliborova rather than on the street the club is ...

Bar Ikarus

Ostrava, Czech Republic

Bar Ikarus is a small gay bar on Nádražní, a minute from Stodolní, the street most of Ostrava's nightlife sits on. It opened in September 2000 and tur ...

Therma Silesia

Chorzów, Poland

Therma Silesia is a men-only gay sauna in Chorzów, a few kilometres from the centre of Katowice and reachable from anywhere in the Silesian conurbatio ...

Blue Sauna Gay

Katowice, Poland

Blue Sauna Gay is a men-only sauna club in Piotrowice-Ochojec, a residential district in the south of Katowice rather than in the city centre. It call ...

Club OUTside

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

OUTside is the LGBTQ+ club of Cluj-Napoca, and in practice the only one the city has. It sits on Bulevardul 21 Decembrie 1989, a short walk from Piata ...

Sauna Soho Cluj

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Sauna Soho Cluj is a men-only gay sauna on Strada Victor Babes, in the middle of the city. It opened as the younger sister of the Soho sauna in Buchar ...

SLM Aarhus

Aarhus, Denmark

SLM Aarhus is a members' club for men, and it describes itself as the only gay venue in the city that is exclusively so. It has run since 1978, from a ...

Joys

Aarhus, Denmark

Joys is a swingers club in Åbyhøj, a few kilometres west of central Aarhus. It is listed here because it runs dedicated gay and bi theme days, not bec ...

GBAR

Aarhus, Denmark

GBAR is the main gay bar and nightclub in Aarhus, on Skolegade in the city centre. It calls itself the city's hottest diversity bar and nightclub, and ...

FØNiKS

Aarhus, Denmark

FØNiKS is the queer pop-up bar in Aarhus. It has no address of its own: the crew takes over the venue room at the culture house Frontløberne on Mejlga ...

Sauna Equateur

Strasbourg, France

Sauna Equateur has been running since 1991, which makes it the oldest gay address still open in Strasbourg. It is on the first floor of a building nea ...

Oxydo Sauna

Strasbourg, France

Oxydo is a libertine sauna on Place Clément, a short walk from Les Halles. It runs two programmes under one roof, a mixed one and a men-only one, and ...

Le Schluch

Strasbourg, France

Le Schluch is a bierstub on Rue de l'Outre and one of the older addresses in Strasbourg's queer scene. The room has kept its dark woodwork with floral ...

Le Golden Gate

Strasbourg, France

Le Golden Gate is a gay bar in the Petite France quarter, on the stretch of Rue du Fossé des Tanneurs that runs down towards the canals. It calls itse ...

Le Complex

Strasbourg, France

Le Complex is two venues behind one door near the station: the Antracte, a cruising club, and the Drak's, a sauna. They are run as a single establishm ...

Codice Rosso

Catania, Italy

Codice Rosso is a cruising club for men in the Borgo quarter, behind Piazza Trento and a short walk from Via Etnea and the Villa Bellini gardens. It c ...

Terme di Achille

Catania, Italy

Terme di Achille is a men-only gay sauna in the Civita quarter, close to Catania's central station. It has been running under this name since the mid- ...

SFC Sauna South Factory Club

Catania, Italy

SFC South Factory Club is a gay sauna in the Civita quarter of Catania's old town, a few streets from the central station. It calls itself the biggest ...

Nº29

Vigo, Spain

Nº29 opened in September 2024 on Rúa de Rosalía de Castro, in the space a disco pub called Cuarenta had left behind. It is the newest of Vigo's gay ve ...

Pikante Sex Shop

Vigo, Spain

Pikante is a sex shop in the Galerías Príncipe, the shopping arcade on Vigo's main pedestrian street, and the cruising floor above it is what puts it ...

Plaff

Vigo, Spain

Plaff has been open in Vigo's Casco Vello since 1992. It sits on Rúa Oliva, a narrow street in the old town, and the sign outside is a comic-book spla ...

Roy Bleck

Vigo, Spain

Roy Bleck, la Roy to everyone in Vigo, is a long-running disco on Rúa de Oporto and one of the fixtures of the city's gay nightlife. It went through a ...

Azul Sauna

Vigo, Spain

Azul is the only gay sauna in Vigo and has been open since 1993. It is on Rúa do Roupeiro, a discreet street in the middle of the city that carries li ...

Sauna Capuchinos

Valladolid, Spain

Sauna Capuchinos is the only gay sauna in Castilla y Leon, and it sits in the middle of Valladolid. It is men only. Three kinds of sauna share the ...

LaLupe

Valladolid, Spain

LaLupe calls itself a bar for everyone, and the crowd bears that out. Queer regulars of every age sit alongside people who turned up for the karaoke. ...

BAR La Bohemia

Valladolid, Spain

La Bohemia is a small bar in the old streets around the church of Santa Maria La Antigua. It carries a rainbow in its own name, runs Pride events year ...

Gayshop.at

Graz, Austria

An erotic shop in a side street off Annenstraße, run by the same owner since the late 1990s. It is small and stocked the way a neighbourhood shop is s ...

Cafe STARS

Graz, Austria

A small gay bar on Schönaugasse, a few minutes south of Jakominiplatz. It describes itself as the place where friends arrange to meet before the eveni ...

Cafe Silber

Graz, Austria

A gay café and bar on Klosterwiesgasse, east of the old town and a short walk from Jakominiplatz. It runs as a café earlier in the day and as a bar la ...

baseMENt 2.0

Graz, Austria

A basement venue in the Jakomini district that does three jobs in one room. By day it is a men-only cruising area with a mini cinema, private cabins, ...

Inkognito

Augsburg, Germany

Inkognito is an adult shop and a cinema in one building, on Theaterstraße right beside the Stadttheater and about as central as Augsburg gets. The cin ...

One Sauna

Montpellier, France

One Sauna is a gay sauna and hammam in central Montpellier, a short walk from Place de la Comédie and the Saint-Roch station. It describes itself as o ...

Le Coxx

Montpellier, France

Le Coxx has been Montpellier's central LGBTQIA+ bar since 2014. It sits on a narrow pedestrian street in the Saint-Roch quarter, a few steps from Plac ...

Koncept Sauna

Montpellier, France

Koncept Sauna is a gay sauna on Avenue de Lodève, west of Montpellier's old town. It runs to 350 square metres over two levels and calls itself the ci ...

Café de la Mer

Montpellier, France

Café de la Mer sits on Place du Marché aux Fleurs, the small square in Montpellier's old town that the gay scene has used as its meeting point for abo ...

Atlantik Kino

Karlsruhe, Germany

The Atlantik is an erotic cinema in a commercial pocket of Mühlburg, north west of the centre, and it is the address in Karlsruhe built around cruisin ...

Café PRINZs

Karlsruhe, Germany

PrinzS calls itself the only queer bar in Karlsruhe. It sits on Zähringerstraße in the Innenstadt-Ost, a few steps off Fasanenplatz, and describes its ...

Saunaland Aquarium

Karlsruhe, Germany

The Aquarium is Karlsruhe's gay sauna, in Mühlburg west of the centre. It describes itself as the sauna for men who love men, and it runs over three f ...

Bar El Papagayo

Benidorm, Spain

El Papagayo sits on Carrer de la Santa Faç, in the middle of Benidorm's old town gay village, and it has the terrace that most of the street does not. ...

Bar Mercury

Benidorm, Spain

Mercury is the dance club of Benidorm's old town gay village, on Carrer d'Alacant. It has a proper floor and a sound system to match, which is what se ...

Kafee Klee

Benidorm, Spain

Kafee Klee is a drag bar on Carrer del Pal, a street back from the main run of the old town gay village. Drag is the whole point of the place, with re ...

Sensations Benidorm

Benidorm, Spain

Sensations is a gay bar on Carrer d'Alacant, at the western end of Benidorm's old town gay village. Music videos run on the screens, mostly pop, and t ...

Adam & Eva Erotikshop

Wiesbaden, Germany

Adam & Eva is an erotic shop with a video cruising area on Rheinstraße, one of the main roads through the centre of Wiesbaden. The shop states who it ...

a.cat

Münster, Germany

a.cat is a collective-run bar and café on Herwarthstraße, in the building Münster knew for years as Leo:16. It calls itself a safer space and an expli ...

Strass Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

Strass is a drag bar at the plaza end of La Nogalera. It trades on the site that ran as El Jardin de La Nuit and kept the terrace, which is the part o ...

Vida Bar Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

Vida sits right on Plaza de la Nogalera and calls itself the international LGBTQ+ meeting place of the complex, which is a fair description of what it ...

Mariquita Copas

Torremolinos, Spain

Mariquita describes itself as three things in one: club bar, terrace and disco. In practice that means it works across a whole evening rather than one ...

Lights Bar Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

Lights is an LGBTIQ+ bar on Calle Danza Invisible in La Nogalera, and the terrace is the bar. It calls itself a space created to enjoy without labels, ...

Millennium Bath

Bari, Italy

Millennium Bath is a men-only members' club on Via Adriatico, on the north western side of Bari's modern port, and the only gay sauna in the city. It ...

New People Benidorm

Benidorm, Spain

New People Benidorm is one of the best-known gay bars in Benidorm’s Old Town, right in the heart of the gay village on Carrer de la Santa Faç. With mo ...

AquaSplash Sauna

Thessaloniki, Greece

AquaSplash is the gay sauna in Vardaris, at the western end of the centre. It runs to around 400 square metres and it moved to this address from its e ...

Pastaflora Darling

Thessaloniki, Greece

Pastaflora Darling is a cafe bar on Zefxidos, a lane just off Aristotelous in the middle of the city. The room is pink and deliberately vintage, with ...

ID Club

Thessaloniki, Greece

ID Club is a small gay bar near Vardaris square, at the western edge of the centre. It calls itself an ellinadiko, which is to say the music is Greek ...

XPOSE Club

Thessaloniki, Greece

XPOSE is a gay club on Politechniou, at the western end of the centre. The room is a long bar down one side, a dance floor, neon and high ceilings. ...

Play

Thessaloniki, Greece

Play is a cruise and fetish club in Vardaris, on three floors and around 300 square metres. It opened in 2014. The cabins come in different sizes, ...

Men and Underwear - The Shop

Thessaloniki, Greece

Men and Underwear started as a men's underwear magazine and blog and grew a shop out of it. The shop is in Kalamaria, on the eastern side of the city, ...

Enola Bar Club

Thessaloniki, Greece

Enola sits on the second floor of a building on Valaoritou, the street that carries most of Thessaloniki's late nightlife, a few minutes from the port ...

Blue Vision

Thessaloniki, Greece

Blue Vision is a cruising and adult film venue near Vardaris square, on three levels and around 220 square metres. The look is dark vinyl and mirrors ...

Saunabad Die Insel

Münster, Germany

Die Insel is Münster's men's sauna, on Geringhoffstraße in the south of the city. It describes itself as the sauna bath for him, and the building is l ...

Cheerz Apartments

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Cheerz Apartments are self-catering flats on Hadden Street, run by the people behind Cheerz Bar & Club a minute away on Exchange Street. That makes th ...

Cheerz Bar & Club

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Cheerz is Aberdeen's one dedicated gay venue and has been running since 1996. It sits on Exchange Street in the Merchant Quarter, a short walk from Un ...

XXL Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

XXL is a fetish and cruising club on Avenida Palma de Mallorca, away from the Nogalera complex and a walk from the bars. Google files it as a club ...

Vanilla Cafe

Torremolinos, Spain

Vanilla is the cafe end of Plaza de la Nogalera, and its own description of itself is four words long: bar, first drink, good atmosphere, good coffee. ...

Pourquoi Pas?

Torremolinos, Spain

Pourquoi Pas? opened in 1968 and has never moved. That makes it older than almost everything around it and older than the Nogalera's reputation, since ...

Marta Carino by Ritual

Torremolinos, Spain

Marta Carino is the Nogalera bar of the Ritual group, which also runs the gay hotel a few streets away. It is a show bar: drag, DJs and a room built a ...

Luxuria Copas Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

Luxuria is one of the small bars of the La Nogalera block, on Calle Danza Invisible in the row of locals rather than out on the plaza. It is a copa ...

Hotel Ritual Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

Hotel Ritual is the gay hotel of Torremolinos, adults only, on Calle Brasil a couple of streets back from Playa del Bajondillo and a short walk uphill ...

Exxxtreme Cruising Club

Torremolinos, Spain

Exxxtreme is a men-only cruising club on Calle Skal, a couple of streets from La Nogalera. It describes itself in four words: a bar for adult men only ...

Eagle Bar Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

Eagle Bar is the fetish bar of La Nogalera, and it calls itself the only dedicated one in Torremolinos. Leather, rubber and gear are the point here ra ...

Discoteca Parthenon

Torremolinos, Spain

Parthenon is one of the long-standing clubs of La Nogalera, on the walkway at number 715, a few doors from the plaza. It calls itself the most embl ...

Colibri Copas Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

Colibri is one of the bars people start an evening in rather than end it in, on the Danza Invisible walkway in La Nogalera. Its own line for itself is ...

Chessabar by Maiky

Torremolinos, Spain

Chessabar is one of the small bars of La Nogalera, in the apartment block at 408 rather than out on the plaza. It is a bar to start an evening in and ...

Baloo Bar Lounge

Torremolinos, Spain

Baloo is the bear bar of La Nogalera, and it says so plainly: a cafe where you can spend a pleasant while surrounded by bears, chubbies and daddies. T ...

Atmosfera Bar

Torremolinos, Spain

Atmosfera is a cocktail bar in the La Nogalera block, and cocktails are genuinely the point rather than a line on a menu: it advertises more than sixt ...

Aqua Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

Aqua is the largest of the Nogalera venues, a complex rather than a single bar. The terrace at the front has tables inside and out and giant screens, ...

Men's Bar Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

Men's Bar sits on Calle Danza Invisible in La Nogalera, one of the cruising bars of the complex rather than one of the show bars. Its own descripti ...

Sauna Apolo

Torremolinos, Spain

Sauna Apolo is the only gay sauna in Torremolinos, on Avenida Carlota Alessandri a short walk out of La Nogalera. The wet side has a dry sauna, a s ...

Maracuya Gay House

Torremolinos, Spain

Maracuya is a men-only guesthouse a few minutes' walk from La Nogalera. The whole house is clothing optional, which is the thing to know before bookin ...

Cuero Cruising Club

Torremolinos, Spain

Cuero is a cruising and fetish club fifty metres off Plaza de la Nogalera. The club says it has been part of the complex for more than twenty years; t ...

BOXER Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

Boxer is the men's clothing shop of La Nogalera, on Calle Danza Invisible. It calls itself the exclusive stockist for the Boxer Barcelona label in the ...

3 Monkeys Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

3 Monkeys is a cafe and lounge bar on Calle Danza Invisible, on the walkway side of La Nogalera rather than out on the plaza. The bar sums itself u ...

Alcatraz Men's Club

Torremolinos, Spain

Alcatraz is a men's cruising and fetish club in a basement on Plaza de Andalucia, three minutes on foot from La Nogalera. The layout is built for t ...

WOS - World of Sex

Kiel, Germany

WOS, short for World of Sex, is a sex shop and cinema on Schuhmacherstraße in Kiel's Altstadt. It is the only cinema of its kind in the city with a ga ...

Harlekin

Kiel, Germany

Harlekin sits on Kirchhofallee in the Südfriedhof quarter, a short walk south of Kiel's main station. It calls itself the oldest gay bar on the Kiel F ...

Birdcage

Kiel, Germany

Birdcage is a cocktail bar on Rathausstraße, a few steps from Kiel's town hall. It is small: about thirty seats around one long counter, with a backli ...

Pleasure Shop Erfurt

Erfurt, Germany

Pleasure is a sex shop on Weimarische Straße in Daberstedt, southeast of the old town, with a cinema behind it that runs to about 200 square metres. T ...

TLC Erfurt OX's

Erfurt, Germany

The OX's is the club cellar of the Thueringer Lederclub, a leather and fetish association started in Erfurt in 1994 by eight men shortly after reunifi ...

Eroticats

Potsdam, Germany

A sex shop with a cinema behind it, out at Pirschheide on the western edge of Potsdam next to the old station of the same name. From the street it is ...

22 Bar

Reykjavík, Iceland

22 Bar is the queer heart of the historic timber house on the corner of Laugavegur and Klapparstígur. Upstairs, you’ll find Kiki Queer Bar - together, ...

Bluebox Kino

Wiesbaden, Germany

The Bluebox is a cruising cinema on Schwalbacher Straße in the middle of Wiesbaden, next to the Mauritius Galerie car park. It describes itself as the ...

Bistro Bar Trend

Wiesbaden, Germany

The Trend is a small bistro bar at the Römertor, in a side street off the Kirchgasse shopping street in the centre of Wiesbaden. It describes itself a ...

Bierpub "Benno B."

Schwerin, Germany

Benno B. is a rustic beer pub on Franz-Mehring-Straße, a few minutes' walk from Schwerin's main station. It has been running since 1998 and is the onl ...

Erotik Markt 300

Magdeburg, Germany

Erotik Markt 300 is a sex shop on the Berliner Chaussee in Brückfeld, east of the centre, and it has been there for more than twenty-five years. About ...

BOYS´n`BEATS

Magdeburg, Germany

BOYS´n`BEATS is Magdeburg's club for gay men, lesbians and their friends, and it has been running for more than twenty years. Dancefloor, bar and seat ...

Station BXL

Brussels, Belgium

Station BXL is a bar for bears and their friends on the Brussels gay street. It is a comfortable, low-key room rather than a party bar, and the staff ...

Spit It Out

Brussels, Belgium

Spit It Out is a fetish shop at the top of the Brussels gay street, stocking leather, latex, neoprene, sportswear, clubwear and toys. It also runs the ...

The Agenda

Brussels, Belgium

The Agenda is a queer bar a few steps off the Brussels gay street. It says plainly that it is there for LGBTQIA+ and non-binary people and their allie ...

2BE Brussels

Brussels, Belgium

2BE is a men's underwear and swimwear shop a short walk from the Brussels gay street. Briefs, trunks, jocks, thongs and boxers are the core of it, wit ...

Le Dolores

Brussels, Belgium

Le Dolores is a small bar on the Brussels gay street with a handful of tables out on the pavement. It is a quieter room than most of its neighbours, w ...

Argos Love Shop

Brussels, Belgium

Argos is an adult shop a street from the Brussels gay quarter, and it has been in the centre for more than twenty years. It keeps what it says is the ...

The Crazy Circle

Brussels, Belgium

The Crazy Circle is a lesbian and feminist bar in Ixelles, away from the gay quarter in the centre. It was a rum bar until it was converted in 2019, a ...

Oasis Sauna

Brussels, Belgium

Oasis is a men-only gay sauna at the edge of the centre, north-east of the old town and within walking distance of the Botanique and Madou metro stati ...

Macho Sauna

Brussels, Belgium

Macho Sauna has been on the Brussels gay street since the early 1980s and is the largest gay sauna in the city, spread over several floors and around ...

Le Baroque

Brussels, Belgium

Le Baroque is a bear bar in the middle of the Brussels gay quarter, a few minutes from the Grand Place. The bar calls what it does the bear spirit, an ...

La Réserve

Brussels, Belgium

La Réserve is a rustic bar a minute from the Grand Place, and it calls itself the oldest gay bar in Brussels. The room is narrow and wood-panelled, wi ...

L'Homo Erectus

Brussels, Belgium

L'Homo Erectus is a small queer cafe-bar at the top of the Brussels gay street, run by the fetish shop a couple of doors along. It calls itself one of ...

Chez Maman

Brussels, Belgium

Chez Maman is a drag bar just off the Brussels gay street, and the place most people in the city name first when asked where to see a drag show. The r ...

Castro Bar

Brussels, Belgium

Castro is a small bar at the quieter end of the Brussels gay street, with a short terrace on the pavement. Beer is the main business, Belgian and Iris ...

BorisBoy

Brussels, Belgium

BorisBoy is a fetish and underwear shop a few streets from the Brussels gay quarter, trading for over a decade. The stock covers harnesses, leather, c ...

BB

Brussels, Belgium

BB is an LGBTQ+ music bar on two floors on the Brussels gay street, open since November 2025. Two levels let it run a dance floor and a quieter room a ...

Gay-Sex-Messe

Cologne, Germany

Gay-Sex-Messe is a sex shop and porn cinema on Mathiasstraße in the Altstadt, on the same short street as Deck 5 and Pullermanns. Shop at the front, c ...

Novum Store Bielefeld Eckendorfer Straße

Bielefeld, Germany

The Novum on Eckendorfer Straße is the larger of the two Bielefeld branches, about 2,500 square metres north of the centre. Like the other one it is a ...

Sauna 65

Bielefeld, Germany

Sauna 65 calls itself the gay sauna for Ostwestfalen-Lippe, and it has the region largely to itself. It is men only, gay, bisexual and straight men al ...

Glam Vial

Córdoba, Spain

Glam is the bar that carries Córdoba's LGBTQ+ scene. It sits on Calle La Radio in Vial Norte, the modern quarter north of the old town, so it is nowhe ...

Muttis Bierstube

Bielefeld, Germany

Muttis Bierstube opened in 1972 and was among the first gay bars in Germany. It is still going, a few minutes from the Kesselbrink in central Bielefel ...

G-Attitude

Cayenne, France

G-Attitude is the only dedicated LGBTQ+ bar in French Guiana. It opened in Cayenne in 2024 and grew out of the territory's LGBT association, which sti ...

Queer

Florence, Italy

Queer is a small gay bar in the streets behind Santa Croce. It has moved from Borgo Allegri to Via Sant'Egidio, which puts it a few doors along from C ...

Florence Baths

Florence, Italy

Florence Baths has been the only gay sauna in the city since it opened in 1991. It is near the Mercato Centrale, a few minutes from the main station. ...

Circolo Fabrik Firenze

Calenzano, Italy

Fabrik is a men-only cruising club in Calenzano, just outside Florence, in a converted industrial building of about 600 square metres. It was founded ...

Caffè dell'Elfo

Cagliari, Italy

Caffè dell'Elfo stands on the Scalette di Santa Chiara, the stepped lane climbing from Piazza Yenne towards the old upper town. Its tables go out on t ...

Darkness Club

Cagliari, Italy

Darkness is a members-only cruising club in the centre of Cagliari, about five hundred metres from the port. It opened in 2016 and was the first club ...

Mood Club

Cagliari, Italy

Mood Club is a nightclub on Via Garigliano, a little inland from the old centre of Cagliari. It calls itself the most inclusive club in town, and its ...

Rainbow City

Cagliari, Italy

Rainbow City is a small gay bar on Via Torino, in the grid of streets behind the Cagliari waterfront. It is built around the aperitivo: cocktails, som ...

Klub Sauna Piwnica

Bydgoszcz, Poland

Klub Sauna Piwnica sits below street level on ulica Gdańska, a short walk north of Bydgoszcz's old town. The name means cellar. Admission is for men o ...

The Agenda

Oslo, Norway

The Agenda is a queer bar on Storgata run by Oslo Pride, which moved its office into the building and opened the bar in September 2025. The address ha ...

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SLM Oslo

Oslo, Norway

SLM Oslo, Scandinavian Leather Men, is a fetish and BDSM club for gay men. It was founded in 1976 by men who had been to Baltic Battle in Stockholm an ...

Baba Bar

Oslo, Norway

Baba Bar sits in the Stroget passage off Storgata. It began as a West Asian and North African snack bar with fresh hummus and drinks, drifted into bei ...

Polo Lounge

Glasgow, United Kingdom

The Polo Lounge is the largest LGBTQ+ nightclub in Glasgow and the one most visitors end up in. It runs over two floors on Wilson Street with four roo ...

Woody's

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Woody's is the newest of the Merchant City gay bars, in the John Street room that traded as Speakeasy before it. It is set up as a pub rather than ...

The Waterloo Bar

Glasgow, United Kingdom

The Waterloo is said to be the oldest gay pub in Scotland, and it looks the part. The frontage on Argyle Street is muted red and gold with stained gla ...

The Underground

Glasgow, United Kingdom

The Underground is a basement bar on John Street, below the pavement in the middle of the Merchant City. It traded as Revolver before the change of na ...

The Riding Room

Glasgow, United Kingdom

The Riding Room is the corner unit where Virginia Street meets Wilson Street, and it calls itself the Joint on the Corner. It is a cocktail bar built ...

The Pipeworks

Glasgow, United Kingdom

The Pipeworks is Glasgow's only gay sauna and the largest in Scotland, tucked into Metropole Lane at the edge of the Merchant City. It runs over three ...

The Gallery Bar

Glasgow, United Kingdom

The Gallery Bar is on Brunswick Street, a block off the main Merchant City run, and its outdoor area is the reason to know about it. The patio is larg ...

The Corset Club

Glasgow, United Kingdom

The Corset Club occupies the Jacobean Building on Virginia Street, in the middle of Glasgow's gay quarter. It works as a cocktail lounge and a cabaret ...

Merchant Pride

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Merchant Pride is a traditional pub on Candleriggs, a street east of the main Merchant City cluster and quieter for it. The room is a conventional bar ...

Katie's Bar

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Katie's Bar is a basement room under the Italian Centre on John Street, a few doors from the rest of the Merchant City venues. It has been running sin ...

Luke & Jack

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Luke & Jack is an adult shop on Virginia Street, in the middle of the Merchant City gay quarter and a few doors from the bars. It sells toys, fetis ...

Delmonica's

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Delmonica's has been on Virginia Street since 1991, in the middle of Glasgow's Merchant City gay quarter. It is a bar built around entertainment rathe ...

Category Is Books

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Category Is Books is an independent queer bookshop on Allison Street in Govanhill, on Glasgow's southside and a good way from the Merchant City bars. ...

AXM Glasgow

Glasgow, United Kingdom

AXM is a large LGBTQ+ club on Glassford Street, a minute's walk from the Merchant City bars. It has a stage for guest performers and a main room built ...

Paradise Palms

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Paradise Palms sits on Lothian Street, a few minutes from the National Museum, and calls itself a bar, diner, record label and music stage. The room i ...

Lighthouse Bookshop

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lighthouse is a bookshop on West Nicolson Street, in the university quarter south of the Old Town. It is queer-owned and women-led, and describes itse ...

Alva House

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Alva House is a guesthouse on Alva Place in Abbeyhill, adults only and run for LGBT guests. It is a walk of a few minutes to the bars around Broughton ...

The Kings

Cardiff, United Kingdom

The Kings is a bar on Churchill Way, the short street where most of Cardiff's queer nightlife has ended up, directly across from Pulse. The same compa ...

The Golden Cross

Cardiff, United Kingdom

The Golden Cross is the tiled pub on the corner of Customhouse Street and Hayes Bridge Road, and part of the reason to go is the building. There has b ...

Pulse

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Pulse is the basement club under Churchill Way and the late end of a night out in Cardiff. It has been running since 2007 and calls itself Wales' flag ...

Mary's

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Mary's is a cabaret bar on St Mary Street, on Cardiff's main night-out strip rather than over on Churchill Way with most of the rest of the scene. Dra ...

Eclipse Cabaret Bar

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Eclipse is a cellar bar at 39 Charles Street, down the stairs into the room that was the Eagle until it was rebranded at the end of 2024. It is LGBTQ+ ...

System X

Nantes, France

System X is a sex club and shop a few minutes on foot from Nantes station, on rue de Richebourg. It runs to 240 square metres over two levels. The ...

Le Steamer

Nantes, France

Le Steamer is the gay sauna of Nantes and the largest in the west of France, 650 square metres on rue Baron in the middle of the city. It is men only. ...

Le Petit Marais

Nantes, France

Le Petit Marais has been on rue Kervégan since 1998, on the Île Feydeau stretch where a good part of Nantes gay nightlife sits. It opened as a gay bar ...

Le Montecito

Nantes, France

Le Montecito is a cocktail bar on allée Duquesne, a short walk from the Graslin quarter. The rainbow sign over the door is the giveaway. It is a gay b ...

Le Cercle Rouge

Nantes, France

Le Cercle Rouge is a bar on rue des Carmes, in the Bouffay quarter. It works as a café through the day and a bar in the evening, and it puts the rainb ...

L'Autre Quai

Nantes, France

L'Autre Quai is a cruising bar on quai de la Fosse, on the river side of the city centre near the old shipyards. It runs over two floors and about 220 ...

CO2 Club Origin

Nantes, France

CO2 Club Origin is the gay club of Nantes, out on the Île de Nantes at the end of rue de la Cale Crucy. It runs two rooms, a techno floor and a gay cl ...

Boy's Bar

Nantes, France

Boy's Bar is a cruising bar and club on rue Ogée, a few streets from the Bouffay quarter, and it is the men's cruising address in central Nantes. T ...

B4 Sauna Club

Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire, France

B4 Sauna Club sits on an industrial street in Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire, on the eastern edge of the Nantes conurbation and a short drive from the centre. ...

Union Street Bar

Belfast, United Kingdom

Union Street Bar has been on Union Street since 2003, in a 19th-century shoe factory that was converted rather than gutted. It is one of the largest g ...

The Maverick

Belfast, United Kingdom

The Maverick sits on the corner of Union Street and Donegall Street, in the part of Belfast the bars there call the Rainbow Quarter. Its own line is a ...

Paperxclips

Belfast, United Kingdom

Paperxclips is a trans-owned queer bookshop and community space on North Street, open since 2022. Everything on the shelves is either by a queer autho ...

Outside Sauna

Belfast, United Kingdom

Outside is the only gay sauna in Northern Ireland. It is on Donegall Lane, a minute from the bars on Union Street, and the entrance is deliberately di ...

Kremlin

Belfast, United Kingdom

Kremlin is the biggest gay club in Northern Ireland and has been running on Donegall Street since 1999. It was the first venue in the country that was ...

Tapper

Limassol, Cyprus

Tapper is a bar in the Trigono tis Marikas building on Eleftherias in Limassol, running since 2017. It describes itself as a hub as much as a bar: som ...

Casa Rural Palomar

Fataga, Spain

Casa Rural Palomar is a men-only guesthouse in Fataga, a mountain village in the ravine inland from Maspalomas. It bills itself as a quiet gay retreat ...

Blue Angels

Nice, France

Blue Angels is a men-only bed and breakfast in an apartment on rue Assalit, a few minutes on foot from Nice station and within walking distance of the ...

Yumbo Birmingham

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Yumbo is a bar and men's sauna in the Jewellery Quarter, a short way out of the Gay Village, opening in August 2026. It comes from the team that ran t ...

Biblioteka Azyl

Lublin, Poland

Biblioteka Azyl is a queer library at Lipowa 13 in Lublin, in the second space of the city's contemporary art gallery, with the entrance from ul. Ofia ...

XXL Lanzarote Mens Bar

Puerto del Carmen, Spain

XXL is the only gay bar on Lanzarote. It sits on the upper floor of the Centro Comercial Atlántico, on the seafront strip in Puerto del Carmen, and it ...

Gay Tours Valencia

Valencia, Spain

Gay Tours Valencia runs guided tours of the city with gay tour guides, and calls itself the first gay tour and activities agency in Valencia. Tours ar ...

Rainbow Inn

Lausanne, Switzerland

The Rainbow Inn is the only guesthouse in Lausanne that takes men only. It sits on Avenue de Tivoli, the street that carries the city's gay addresses, ...

Lust Vintage

Funchal, Portugal

Lust Vintage is the only bar on Madeira that presents itself as an LGBTQIA+ venue. It is on Rua de Santa Maria in Funchal's old town, the street known ...

THEBOSS Sauna

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

The Boss is the gay sauna in the centre of Santa Cruz, on Avenida Tres de Mayo. It was rebuilt not long ago and the fit-out is modern rather than worn ...

Sauna Stonewall

Costa Adeje, Spain

Stonewall is the gay sauna for the south of Tenerife, on the ground floor of the Pueblo Canario centre in San Eugenio Bajo, walking distance from the ...

Q&K Cruising Gay Club

Costa Adeje, Spain

Q&K is a cruising bar in the Viña del Mar building on Calle Guatemala, at the Costa Adeje end of the Playa de las Américas strip. It works as a bar ...

La Bowie

San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain

La Bowie is a bar and small concert hall in La Laguna, in the La Cuesta district, and it describes itself as a diverse and inclusive space. It flies t ...

Kamaleón Pub

Puerto de la Cruz, Spain

Kamaleón is a dance pub on Calle Blanco in Puerto de la Cruz, on the same short street as the town's gay sauna and a few minutes from the bars on Aven ...

HEROES BAR by KATALEX

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Heroes is a karaoke bar on Calle Santiago in central Santa Cruz, open to the LGBTIQ+ crowd and run for locals rather than tourists. Karaoke is the ...

EXITO GAY CLUB

Playa de las Américas, Spain

EXITO is the gay club for the south of Tenerife, in the Verónicas 2 centre on the Playa de las Américas strip, next door to the Papagayo beach club. I ...

Pink Beach

Lausanne, Switzerland

Pink Beach is the largest gay sauna in Switzerland, two floors and a basement on Avenue de Tivoli, a few minutes on foot from the main station. The ...

Le Saxo

Lausanne, Switzerland

Le Saxo is one small room in a lane below Place Saint-Francois. It calls itself the oldest gay, queer and rainbow bar in Lausanne and counts 34 years ...

Bernstein

Stuttgart, Germany

Bernstein is a bar and restaurant in the Bohnenviertel, the old craftsmen's quarter east of the city centre. It calls itself the Spielebar: a shelf of ...

UTOPIA Kiosk

Stuttgart, Germany

The UTOPIA Kiosk is a queer art and culture space with a bar, tucked into the ground floor of the Züblin car park in the middle of Stuttgart. It is ru ...

Ruben's Home

Stuttgart, Germany

Ruben's Home is a bistro, bar and lounge in the middle of Stuttgart, on the small square around the Hans-im-Glück-Brunnen. It runs over two floors. Th ...

Jakob-Stube

Stuttgart, Germany

The Jakob-Stube is a Kneipe, and it is firm about the word: not a bar, not a lounge, not a pub, not a bistro. It sits in a listed baroque house in the ...

The Phoenix

Bristol, United Kingdom

The Phoenix is an independent, queer owned pub in Champion Square, at the Old Market end of the city centre. There has been a pub on the site since 18 ...

Queenshilling

Bristol, United Kingdom

Queenshilling is an LGBT+ nightclub on Frogmore Street, in the cluster of gay venues below Park Street. It calls itself one of Bristol's longest estab ...

OMG Bristol Club

Bristol, United Kingdom

OMG is a late opening LGBT+ nightclub on Frog Lane, in the run of gay venues just below Park Street. The dancefloor is the whole point of the place, w ...

OMG Bar Bristol

Bristol, United Kingdom

OMG Bar is the smaller half of the OMG pair in Bristol, on Frogmore Street a short walk from the club on Frog Lane. It is a gay bar with a light up da ...

Old Market Tavern

Bristol, United Kingdom

The Old Market Tavern is a traditional pub on Old Market Street, in the middle of Bristol's Old Market quarter. It describes itself as an old style pu ...

Old Castle Green

Bristol, United Kingdom

Old Castle Green is a pub on Gloucester Lane, a step off the main run of Old Market. It calls itself a welcoming and inclusive community hub open to a ...

Bristol Bear Bar

Bristol, United Kingdom

Bristol Bear Bar is on West Street in Old Market, the part of the city that has carried the gay scene for decades. It calls itself the first purpose b ...

Crisco Club

Florence, Italy

Crisco is a men-only club in the centre of Florence, a few minutes behind the cathedral, and it has been the city's cruising venue since the 1980s. ...

Apollo Sauna

Zurich, Switzerland

Apollo is the oldest gay sauna in Zurich, on Seilergraben in the old town and about five minutes on foot from the main station. It is a small place ...

Ministry of Kink

Zurich, Switzerland

Ministry of Kink, or MoK, is a fetish shop on Magnusstrasse in Kreis 4. The company took the business over in November 2015, and what it took over had ...

ErotikFactory

Zurich, Switzerland

ErotikFactory is a large erotic shop on Badenerstrasse in Kreis 4, spread over two floors. It is a mixed shop rather than a gay one, and it is the cru ...

Paragonya Wellness Club

Zurich, Switzerland

Paragonya is the largest gay sauna in Zurich, around 600 square metres over two floors on Mühlegasse in the old town. The wet side has a sauna that ...

Sauna Mylord

Zurich, Switzerland

Mylord is a small sauna on Seebahnstrasse in Kreis 3, near Lochergut, and it has been in the same building for more than fifty years. It does not comp ...

Männerzone

Zurich, Switzerland

Männerzone is a sex shop for men on Hohlstrasse in Kreis 4. The entrance is not on the street: go through to the inner courtyard and look for the MZ-S ...

KWEER Bar

Zurich, Switzerland

KWEER sits on Spitalgasse in the Niederdorf, in the rooms that have held the Barfuesser since the mid-1950s. It calls itself one of the oldest queer b ...

Heaven Club

Zurich, Switzerland

Heaven is Zurich's queer nightclub, on Spitalgasse in the Niederdorf and a few doors from the old Barfuesser rooms. It is the one address in the city ...

Cranberry Bar

Zurich, Switzerland

Cranberry opened on Metzgergasse in the autumn of 1997 and has been part of Zurich's queer nightlife ever since. It is a cocktail bar before anything ...

Spartan Health Club

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Spartan is the longest-running gay sauna in Birmingham, open since the early 1980s. It is a converted terraced house in Erdington, a few miles north o ...

Missing Bar

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Missing is a party bar on Bromsgrove Street, a corner off the main Hurst Street strip, and it has been part of the Birmingham scene for decades. The b ...

Glamorous

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Glamorous sits at the top of Hurst Street and is where the Gay Village goes when the rest of it shuts. It opens around the time other bars are calling ...

Equator Bar

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Equator is a small independent bar in the middle of the Hurst Street strip, run by the same family for over twenty years. It works as a cafe in the da ...

Eden Bar

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Eden is a cabaret and club bar on the corner of Gooch Street and Sherlock Street, at the southern end of Birmingham's Gay Village. It began in 2008 ne ...

Bar Michel

Palma, Spain

Bar Michel is a small corner bar on Avinguda de Joan Miró, the street below Bellver castle where most of Palma's gay venues have sat for decades. It w ...

NiL Café & Bar

Munich, Germany

The NiL is one of the oldest gay venues still running in Munich and sits on the corner of Hans-Sachs-Straße, in the thick of the quarter. The fit-out ...

Stargayte

Leipzig, Germany

A club sauna in the middle of Leipzig, open since 1996 and generally named as the largest of its kind in Germany, spread over some 2,500 square metres ...

Olivias Show Club

Hamburg, Germany

Olivias Show Club is a small travesty and comedy cabaret in a backyard off the Große Freiheit, one of the last cabarets of its kind on St. Pauli. The ...

Man Moviethek

Essen, Germany

Man Moviethek is a gay cinema, cruising bar and adult shop on Vereinstraße, a few streets from Essen main station. It has been the city's main cruisin ...

Café [iks]

Essen, Germany

Café [iks] is the cafe of Aidshilfe Essen on Varnhorststraße, and one of the few places in the city where queer people meet over a table rather than a ...

PLUTO Sauna Essen

Essen, Germany

Pluto is one of the largest gay saunas in Germany: around 1,600 square metres over three floors of a former 1960s department store, a few minutes on f ...

Bar Lola

Düsseldorf, Germany

A cocktail bar in Carlstadt, a few minutes from the Altstadt, that calls itself a "Cocktail Lab" and a "Salon Electrique". Deep red buttoned leather c ...

Café Remé

Düsseldorf, Germany

A café on Kronprinzenstraße in Friedrichstadt, in the building called The Sparkle, with a plain modern room and a good deal of space in it. It is a ...

Paradise Dresden

Dresden, Germany

Paradise is the only gay sauna in Dresden, on Friedensstraße at the northern edge of the Neustadt, and it has been part of the city's scene since 1999 ...

caféplus

Dortmund, Germany

caféplus is the event café of aidshilfe dortmund, near the Gnadenort in the city centre. It began as a meeting place for people living with HIV and th ...

Zum Pitter

Cologne, Germany

Zum Pitter sits on Alter Markt in the middle of the tourist Altstadt and has been part of the Cologne gay scene for a long time. The terrace on the sq ...

Schampanja

Cologne, Germany

Schampanja has been open since 1985 and is the small, dark, alternative bar of the Bermudadreieck. Indie, rock and punk on the sound system rather tha ...

QUEENS & Tom's Welt

Bremen, Germany

QUEENS calls itself the oldest, best known and most popular gay bar in Bremen, and by the standards of a city with a small scene that is not much of a ...

La Gougnotte

Toulouse, France

La Gougnotte is a feminist queer bar in Saint-Cyprien, on the far bank of the Garonne from the old centre, and the name is a French slang word for a l ...

US Video

Helsinki, Finland

US Video is an adult shop on Malminkatu in Kamppi, directly behind the Radisson Blu Royal hotel, with a deliberately discreet door onto the street. Th ...

HUNGR

Tallinn, Estonia

HUNGR is a queer-owned community club in Noblessner, the old submarine yard north of the city centre. It shares the Peetri 6 building with the techno ...

But Bar

Brno, Czech Republic

But Bar is a small music bar on Husova, at the foot of the Špilberk hill and a few minutes from the middle of town. It describes itself as a bar for g ...

Sex Shop Lucky Bull

Zagreb, Croatia

Lucky Bull is a sex shop on Petrinjska, the same street as Hotpot and a few doors along from it. It has been there for years. Stock covers toys, fe ...

Café Hessenhuis

Antwerp, Belgium

The Hessenhuis is a warehouse finished in 1564, between the MAS museum and the red-light district, and since 1993 the ground floor has been Antwerp's ...

Pub Tempe

Murcia, Spain

Tempe is a small cocktail bar on Calle Victorio, in the tascas quarter of central Murcia. It opened in 2006 as Temperatura Ambiente and traded under t ...

Le Phare

Geneva, Switzerland

Le Phare is a small cafe-bar on a pedestrian street in Saint-Gervais, a few minutes from Cornavin station. It calls itself an LGBTIQ+ cafe-bar, and th ...

The Zone Bar

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Zone sits next door to the Bulldog in the middle of St James's Street and takes a lighter approach than its neighbour. Live music, cabaret, karaok ...

The Queens Arms

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Queens Arms is on George Street in Kemptown and has been doing the same thing for over forty years: cabaret, and a lot of it. The bar calls itself ...

The Marine Tavern

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Marine Tavern is one of the smallest pubs in Brighton and has stood on Broad Street since the late nineteenth century. Its interior is old enough ...

The Kemptown Klub

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Kemptown Klub is a private members' bar rather than a pub, which sounds more exclusive than it is: membership is free, anyone over 25 can join, an ...

The Grosvenor Bar

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Grosvenor sits on Western Street, well away from the Kemptown bars and towards the Hove end of the seafront, which gives it a different feel: quie ...

The Brighton Sauna

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Brighton Sauna is on Grand Parade, directly opposite the Royal Pavilion, about ten minutes on foot from the station and a short walk from the Kemp ...

The Brighton Birdcage

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Brighton Birdcage opened on Gloucester Road in the North Laine in May 2019 and describes itself as an LGBTQIA+ boutique specialising in drag, tran ...

The Boiler Room Sauna

Hove, United Kingdom

The Boiler Room is the second of the area's two gay saunas and the more intimate of them, a few minutes on foot from Hove station and about three minu ...

The Birdcage

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Birdcage opened in 2026 on the seafront at Kemptown, in the ground floor of the Amsterdam Hotel building where the hotel's own bar used to be. It ...

The Bedford Tavern

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Bedford is a small pub on Western Street, a few doors from the Grosvenor and on the same stretch between Brighton and Hove. It is proudly and open ...

The Actors

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Actors occupies one of the oldest pub buildings in Brighton, opposite the Royal Pavilion, and was known for decades as the Marlborough. It reopene ...

Prowler Brighton

Brighton, United Kingdom

Prowler is the best known gay retailer in Britain and this is its Brighton branch, on St James's Street in the middle of the Kemptown scene. It is one ...

Nautilus Lounge

Brighton, United Kingdom

Nautilus occupies the basement on St James's Street that spent years as Subline, Brighton's dedicated gay cruise club. The room has been turned into s ...

Legends

Brighton, United Kingdom

Legends sits on the Kemptown seafront with a wide terrace facing the Channel and the Palace Pier. Big windows run along the front of the bar, so it wo ...

Club Revenge

Brighton, United Kingdom

Revenge has been running since 1991 and is the largest LGBTQ+ club in the city. It spreads over three floors. The main room downstairs has LED screens ...

Bulldog

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Bulldog has been on St James's Street since 1979 and calls itself Brighton's longest running LGBTQ venue. It is not a polished room and does not t ...

Brighton Cruise Bar

Brighton, United Kingdom

Brighton Cruise Bar is a men-only private members' bar in the same building as the Brighton Sauna on Grand Parade, opposite the Royal Pavilion. Member ...

Bottom's Rest

Hove, United Kingdom

Bottom's Rest is a corner pub dating from the 1860s, tucked into the Hove backstreets just behind the Old Market theatre. It describes itself as queer ...

Bar Broadway

Brighton, United Kingdom

Bar Broadway is a corner bar on Steine Street, a few steps off St James's Street, built entirely around musical theatre. Show tunes play on a big scre ...

Amsterdam Hotel Brighton Seafront

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Amsterdam is a gay-owned hotel on Marine Parade, directly across the road from the Palace Pier and in the middle of the Kemptown bars. For anyone ...

Affinity Bar

Brighton, United Kingdom

Affinity is a small bar on St James's Street that runs an unusually full programme for its size. Cabaret and drag most nights, plus bingo, karaoke and ...

G.I

Nice, France

A sex shop in the Old Town with a cruising area behind it, on the short flight of steps that is descente Crotti. It is both things at once, and neithe ...

Sauna du Chateau

Nice, France

A sauna at the foot of the castle hill, on the seaward side of the Old Town and a few steps from the Cours Saleya market. It calls itself a non-confor ...

Rendez-Vous Underwear

Nice, France

A men's underwear and swimwear shop in the Old Town, on the small street behind the Cours Saleya. It has been part of the Nice scene long enough to be ...

Ramdam Bar

Nice, France

The newest addition to the Nice scene, open near the port since late 2023, and the most ambitious of them in what it tries to be. The bar calls itself ...

Morgan Club

Nice, France

A naked cruising bar for men in the Bas de Gambetta district, west of the city centre and away from the Old Town cluster. The dress code is the point: ...

Les Bains Douches

Nice, France

The only gay sauna in Nice, running in the Petit Marais since 1997. It fills three floors of a building on rue Gubernatis, a few streets back from the ...

Le Swing

Nice, France

A gay bar on rue Defly that works as three things at once: somewhere to drink, somewhere to eat, and a small cabaret. The room is laid out like a mini ...

Le Provenciaga

Nice, France

A small bar on avenue Felix Faure, between the Old Town and place Massena, trading since 2023. It describes itself as a safe and convivial place, and ...

Le Klubber

Nice, France

The after-hours club on the Nice scene, in a cellar on rue Benoit Bunico in the Old Town. It opens when the other clubs are closing and runs on into t ...

Le Glam

Nice, France

The best known gay club on the French Riviera, and by its own count eighteen years in the business of stirring up the Nicois night. It sits west of th ...

Le Couloir

Nice, France

A small gay bar on rue Alberti, a step off the Promenade du Paillon, and one of the fixtures of the Nice scene: it has been going for close to three d ...

Le Code

Nice, France

A cruising bar and sex club for men, open since 2011 on rue Papon, between place Garibaldi and place du Pin. It bills itself as men only and over eigh ...

Le 6

Nice, France

A small gay nightclub and music bar in the Old Town, close to the seafront, and the longest-running club on the Nice scene: it calls itself the refere ...

La Cave Wilson

Nice, France

A cabaret bar in the middle of Nice that has been trading on this spot since 1904, which makes it the oldest address on the city's gay scene by a wide ...

L'Omega Club

Nice, France

A gay club on a narrow passage off rue de France, near the Promenade des Anglais. It opened in 2023 and has taken a good share of the city's weekend c ...

Coco Bar

Nice, France

A wine bar in the Old Town, on rue Droite near the Palais Lascaris, trading under the names Coco Bar and Coco Vin more or less interchangeably. It is ...

Club Le 7

Nice, France

A men-only cruising club in the city centre, laid out over three floors of a Nicois building. It began as one of the first gay saunas in Nice and kept ...

Pavoneo

Bilbao, Spain

Pavoneo is a small cocktail bar on Barrenkale in the Casco Viejo, a few doors from the other queer bars on the same street. It calls itself little but ...

Pub Key

Bilbao, Spain

Pub Key is a drag pub in Uribarri, north of the river and well away from the Bilbao la Vieja cluster. The house show is transformism, the Spanish drag ...

Modesto

Bilbao, Spain

Modesto is a drinks bar on Barrenkale, the same Casco Viejo street as Pavoneo and Manolita La Primera. Vermouth is the house drink early on and cockta ...

Manolita La Primera

Bilbao, Spain

Manolita La Primera is a small bar on Barrenkale, the Casco Viejo street where most of the old town's queer nightlife sits. It calls itself LGBTIQ+ an ...

The Santu Bear

Bilbao, Spain

The Santu Bear is Bilbao's bear bar, on Maiatzaren biko kalea in Bilbao la Vieja, close to the Merced bridge. It is a quieter room than the clubs a fe ...

Sauna Ego

Bilbao, Spain

Sauna Ego is the larger of Bilbao's two gay saunas, around a thousand square metres in the galleries under Plaza Zabalburu. The entrance is through th ...

Pogled Community Centre

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Pogled Community Centre is the LGBTI+ space in Plovdiv, on the third floor of a building on Отец Паисий in the Kapana quarter. It is run by Pogled Fou ...

Schankwirtschaft Marlene

Wuppertal, Germany

Marlene is a queer bar on the Ölberg, the hill quarter above Elberfeld's Nordstadt. It is named after Marlene Dietrich and the room says so before any ...

KitKatClub

Berlin, Germany

The KitKatClub is a sex-positive club in Berlin Mitte. It calls itself an association for the promotion of hedonistic life culture, and its own line o ...

Jails

Mannheim, Germany

Jails is a gay fetish bar in the basement of the MS Connexion complex in Mannheim Neckarau. It has been running for more than thirty years and calls i ...

Atemlos Queer Bar

Malmö, Sweden

Atemlos opened at the start of 2026 and calls itself Malmö's only queer bar. It sits at Bergsgatan 29, in the same building as the culture house Inkon ...

SLM Malmö

Malmö, Sweden

SLM Malmö is a members' club for men who like men and male fetish, leather and BDSM. It sits at Sallerupsvägen 30 in Ellstorp, north east of the centr ...

PAGE 28

Malmö, Sweden

PAGE 28 is an LGBTQ+ bookshop and a queer cultural venue in the same room, run as a non-profit association by volunteers. It moved into the MittMöllan ...

The Brewers Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

The Brewers sits at the Princess Street end of Canal Street. It is a bar at the front and a club behind, and it holds a late licence, so it takes the ...

The Rembrandt Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

The Rembrandt is a corner building on Sackville Street holding three things at once. REM Bar has the ground floor, Club Tropicana is the basement nigh ...

The Thompsons Arms

Manchester, United Kingdom

The Thompsons Arms is on Sackville Street, on the Village side of Sackville Gardens. It is one of the longest-running independent LGBTQ+ venues in Man ...

The Church

Manchester, United Kingdom

The Church is on Chorlton Street, a corner off Canal Street. It was called Churchills for years and older listings, and plenty of locals, still use th ...

Queer Lit

Manchester, United Kingdom

Queer Lit is an LGBTQ+ bookshop on Great Ancoats Street, entered through Social Refuge. It started online and opened the physical shop in October 2023 ...

ON Bar Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom