Bars

Alexbar

Eivissa, Spain

Alexbar is a small cocktail bar on Carrer de la Mare de Déu, Eivissa's main gay nightlife street. A handful of stools line a short counter just inside ...

Das GLEIS

Zurich, Switzerland

Das GLEIS is a bar and event space inside the Zollhaus building on Zollstrasse in Zürich's Kreis 5, close to the Sihlquai. It calls itself a kulturbar ...

Bar Milk

Rouen, France

Milk is an LGBT+ bar in the historic centre of Rouen, on Rue du Père Adam, open since February 2015. It has a heated outdoor terrace and plays electro ...

Ludwigs Bier und Brot

Düsseldorf, Germany

A pub in the Altstadt, on a side lane off the Bolkerstraße crush, serving Altbier and small food alongside it. The name is the whole concept. Düsse ...

Mandalyns

Bath, United Kingdom

Mandalyns is a gay bar on Lansdown Road, a couple of minutes uphill from George Street, in a terrace called Fountain Buildings. Its own site calls it ...

Lokarria

Lille, France

Lokarria has been on rue des Postes in Wazemmes since 2015 and calls itself a cultural bar for everyone. The programme runs to concerts, exhibitions, ...

Lo de Carmen

Barcelona, Spain

Lo de Carmen is a gay bar on Avinguda del Paral·lel. The room is lit red, with neon slogans on the walls (one of them reads "present is queer"), and t ...

Little Ku

London, United Kingdom

Little Ku is the smaller sibling of Ku Bar, a gay bar on Frith Street a few steps from Old Compton Street. Where the big Ku on Lisle Street is about t ...

Le Duplex

Paris, France

Le Duplex is one of the older gay bars in Paris, set a little back from the main strip in Le Marais. It calls itself relaxed and built around convivia ...

Le Comptoir du Trésor

Paris, France

Le Comptoir du Trésor is a cocktail bar and restaurant at 7 rue du Trésor in the Marais. It calls itself a gay friendly bar, and its logo is striped i ...

Pub Women 2.0

Zaragoza, Spain

Women 2.0 is the third of the three bars on Calle Bernardo Fita, at number 11, between Imán at number 1 and Urano at number 9. The crowd is mixed L ...

Pamela

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Pamela is a queer bar and eetcafe in Oud-West, open since January 2020 and started by a queer trio. It describes itself as a queer and BIPOC safe spac ...

OYA Bar

Berlin, Germany

OYA is a queer-feminist bar in Berlin-Kreuzberg, run as a collective. It describes itself as a soft glow, loud laughs and a safer space for a night ou ...

One Way

Paris, France

One Way is a gay bar with cruising at 28 rue Charlot in the 3rd arrondissement. In its photos dozens of caps hang from the ceiling. The bar has hos ...

Neo Versache's

Oviedo, Spain

Neo Versache's is a gay bar on Calle Campoamor, the street that carries most of Oviedo's late-night traffic. It is the current form of Versache's, tak ...

Melitta Sundström

Berlin, Germany

Melitta Sundström is a queer bar and café on Mehringdamm in Berlin-Kreuzberg. It calls itself one of the oldest and best-known gay bars in Berlin and ...

Le Bunker

Paris, France

Le Bunker is a bar and party space built around Paris's queer, POC and ally community, describing itself on its own page as a club for queer people of ...

Le Barlone

Paris, France

Le Barlone is an inclusive bar at 13 rue Bergère in the 9th arrondissement. It calls itself a bar inclusif, and its website carries the Progress flag. ...

Himmelreich

Berlin, Germany

Himmelreich is a queer café and bar on Simon-Dach-Straße in Berlin-Friedrichshain. It calls itself the queer institution in Friedrichshain and a safe ...

Gspot Benidorm

Benidorm, Spain

Gspot is a small gay bar on Carrer de Sant Vicent, one street back from the busiest part of the Benidorm gay village. Cocktails are what it is known f ...

La Fierté

Paris, France

La Fierté is a queer bar and cantina on Rue de Sambre et Meuse in the 10th arrondissement. It is a new bar, opened in 2026 and run by a collective, an ...

K6

Berlin, Germany

K6 is a neighbourhood gay bar on Kleiststraße in Schöneberg, in the Motzstraße and Eisenacher Straße quarter, about 500 metres from KaDeWe. It calls i ...

ILOsBAR

Berlin, Germany

ILOsBAR is a gay cocktail bar with a mini club on Motzstraße in Berlin-Schöneberg, in the gay quarter around Nollendorfplatz. It describes itself as a ...

H₂O₂

Helsinki, Finland

H₂O₂ is a pop-up gay bar in Helsinki's Kallio neighbourhood, on Kaikukatu, with the entrance at the back of the courtyard. It describes itself as a te ...

Dreizehn

Berlin, Germany

Dreizehn is a small gay pub on the corner of Welserstraße and Fuggerstraße in Schöneberg, a few minutes from Wittenbergplatz. Its own words are good m ...

City of Quebec

London, United Kingdom

The City of Quebec is an Art Deco pub in Marylebone near Marble Arch that has been a cornerstone of London's gay community since 1946. It describes it ...

City Bar

Vienna, Austria

City Bar is a stylish cocktail bar on Tiefer Graben in Vienna's 1st district. It calls itself an LGBTQ+ friendly bar and says it is queer, warm-hearte ...

Olympe

Pantin, France

Olympe, also known as Chez Olympe, is a festive bar, bistro and cabaret at 37 rue Hoche in Pantin, just outside Paris. It sits in a restored brick and ...

Chez Mylène

Paris, France

Chez Mylène is a waterside guinguette at 67 boulevard de la Bastille, on the Arsenal basin near Bastille. It combines a terrace, a bar, a pizzeria res ...

Café Rosa

Lyon, France

Café Rosa is a feminist, cultural and activist community venue in Lyon's 7th district, run as an association, at the crossroads of queer, Black and ra ...

Betty F***

Berlin, Germany

Betty F*** is a cocktail bar on Mulackstraße in Berlin-Mitte. It presents itself as a safe space and runs DJ nights and events, among them a Pre-CSD p ...

Bar Saint Jean

Berlin, Germany

Bar Saint Jean is a gay bar with a French touch on Ziegelstraße in Berlin-Mitte. It is a dark, minimalist room with a cocktail menu, aperitifs and sna ...

Bar Buka

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bar Buka is a lesbian and queer bar in De Pijp in Amsterdam, on Albert Cuypstraat, with the motto where girls meet. It calls itself one of the few ded ...

Café Voulez-Vous

Paris, France

Café Voulez-Vous is a café, bar and restaurant at 18 rue du Temple in the Marais. It calls itself a gay friendly café bar and restaurant, and the inte ...

Le Cactus

Paris, France

Le Cactus is a small bar and bistro on Rue des Archives in the Marais, running under this name since 1910. It has a narrow street-side terrace that fi ...

Cabaret des Merveilles

Paris, France

Cabaret des Merveilles is a queer feminist cocktail bar at 25 rue de l'Hirondelle in the 6th arrondissement, close to Saint-Michel. It says it is for ...

Bonjour Madame

Paris, France

Bonjour Madame is a militant feminist and queer cultural bar on Rue de Montreuil in the 11th arrondissement, near Faidherbe-Chaligny. It calls itself ...

Blond

Berlin, Germany

Blond is a gay cocktail bar at Motzstraße 28 in Schöneberg, in the gay quarter around Nollendorfplatz. It calls itself a gay bar for gay men and lesbi ...

À la Folie

Paris, France

À la Folie is a bar, restaurant, club and terrace at the entrance of the Parc de la Villette, on the side of the Cité des Sciences. It has an indoor h ...

Rosa Bonheur Buttes Chaumont

Paris, France

Rosa Bonheur is a guinguette in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, in a converted railway pavilion with a covered terrace and a busy bar counter. It descri ...

RedZone

Paris, France

RedZone is a gay cruising bar near the Palais Royal, spread across two levels. It runs a dress code built around underwear and naturist attire, and it ...

Les Souffleuses

Paris, France

Les Souffleuses is a queer bar in Le Marais, on Rue de la Verrerie. It occupies two floors under a row of vintage hanging lamps, with a DJ playing mos ...

Les Aimant·e·s

Paris, France

Les Aimant·e·s is an LGBTQIA+ bar on rue Saint-Martin in the third arrondissement, wheelchair accessible and open every day of the year. It replaced B ...

Le Secteur X

Paris, France

Le Secteur X is a gay cruising bar in the Marais district of Paris, open every day from 3pm with a free entrance policy.

Le Keller

Paris, France

Le Keller is a gay fetish and hard-sex club in Paris's 11th arrondissement, on rue Keller near Bastille, running under the same name for more than fif ...

Le Dirty Queen

Paris, France

Le Dirty Queen is a cocktail bar in Paris's 10th arrondissement with an 80s theme: neon signs, a disco ball and karaoke, alongside a run of craft beer ...

La Champmeslé

Paris, France

La Champmeslé is one of the oldest lesbian bars in Paris, open on Rue Chabanais since the early 1970s. A blue-painted facade with a neon sign and clim ...

Krash

Paris, France

Krash is a gay cruising bar in the Marais, on rue Simon Le Franc, reserved for men over 18. It calls itself a cool, friendly cruising bar with everyth ...

Curly Bar

Berlin, Germany

Curly is a queer bar in Wedding. Its own tagline describes it as open to everyone but straight, and it runs a regular weekly programme of nights and e ...

Besenkammer

Berlin, Germany

Besenkammer is a tiny bar just off Alexanderplatz. The room is very small, holding only a handful of people at a time, and it has run as a gay bar sin ...

Bärenhöhle

Berlin, Germany

Bärenhöhle is a small bar in Prenzlauer Berg built around Berlin's bear scene, though everyone is welcome. Karaoke nights are part of the regular l ...

Ajpnia

Berlin, Germany

Ajpnia is a members' club for gay men in Schöneberg, run as a registered association since 2000 by an all-volunteer team. It sits just south of Bayeri ...

Twins Chill Out

Palma, Spain

Twins Chill Out is a lounge bar a few streets off Avinguda de Joan Miró, open since 2006 and laid out with low seating and cushions rather than tables ...

Suedblock

Berlin, Germany

Suedblock is a queer cafe, bar and event space at Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg, a few doors from Moebel-Olfe and SO36. It runs from breakfast through t ...

The Fountain Inn

Birmingham, United Kingdom

The Fountain Inn is a traditional pub at the edge of Birmingham's Gay Village, a few streets from the Hurst Street strip, with letting rooms above it. ...

The Swallow

Plymouth, United Kingdom

The Swallow is an LGBTQ+ bar and show venue on Bretonside, at the edge of the Barbican in Plymouth. It calls itself Plymouth's original LGBTQ+ bar, an ...

West End Showbar

Benidorm, Spain

West End Showbar is a cabaret bar in the Rincón de Loix part of Benidorm, away from the old town gay village and closer to the Levante beach end of th ...

Tr3eme Lieu

Limoges, France

Tr3eme Lieu is a bar on Rue Raspail in La Cite, the old quarter of Limoges, two streets from the cathedral. It opened in 2019 and describes itself as ...

The Fox

Birmingham, United Kingdom

The Fox is a Victorian corner pub one street back from Hurst Street. The building has been a pub since 1901 and a gay bar for more than twenty-five ye ...

The Flying Handbag

Blackpool, United Kingdom

The Flying Handbag is a gay bar on Queen Street, a short walk from Blackpool North station. It opened in 1994 and calls itself Blackpool's only purpos ...

The Cockatoo Club

Manchester, United Kingdom

The Cockatoo Club is a cocktail and cabaret bar on Richmond Street, done in an art deco style with a gilded cockatoo crest over the door. It is a smal ...

Sunrise Ibiza

Ibiza, Spain

Sunrise is the bar with the swings. They hang from the ceiling inside, under neon, and they are the first thing anyone mentions after a night on Calle ...

Silverfuture

Berlin, Germany

Silverfuture is a small queer bar on Weserstraße in Neukölln, open since 2007. It describes itself as a gathering place for Kings, Queens and Criminal ...

Prisma Pub

Albacete, Spain

Prisma Pub is an LGBTIQ+ bar in the centre of Albacete, on Calle Cruz. It opened in spring 2026 and describes itself as an espacio seguro, a safe spac ...

Petra's Tip Top Bar

Zurich, Switzerland

Tip Top is a Schlager bar on Seilergraben, below the university at the edge of the Niederdorf. Schlager is the whole point here: German-language pop, ...

Oscars Bar

Manchester, United Kingdom

Oscars is a theatre-style bar on Canal Street, and the theme is musical film. Screens run clips from classic and modern musicals through the evening, ...

Oscars

Blackpool, United Kingdom

Oscars is a late-night lounge bar right next to Funny Girls, and hosts that show's official cabaret aftershow. It calls itself the heartbeat of Blackp ...

Mon Amour Bar

Nice, France

Mon Amour is a cocktail bar with a street terrace in Vieux Nice's old town, on Rue Francis Gallo. It opened in June 2026 and describes itself with DJ ...

Duplex Bar

Paris, France

Duplex is one of the first gay bars to open in the Marais, tucked slightly off the main strip on Rue Michel le Comte. Its own description is one word, ...

D'Night Pub Karaoke

Pamplona, Spain

D'Night is a karaoke bar in San Juan, west of Pamplona's old town, and singing is the whole proposition. It calls itself the place to let your inner s ...

CUD

Paris, France

CUD is a night bar in Le Marais that has been open since 2001, built for people who come out after midnight. It has three bars across two floors, with ...

Bear's Den

Paris, France

Bear's Den is a gay bear bar in the Marais district of Paris, open since 4 April 1999. It serves drinks daily from 4pm, with a regular programme of ka ...

Location 25

Lübeck, Germany

Location 25 is a small event room in the old Stecknitzfahrer guild house on Hartengrube, a quiet old town street that runs down towards the water. It ...

Man Bar

Blackpool, United Kingdom

Man Bar is a traditional gay bar on Dickson Road, in the gay quarter near Blackpool North station, with drinks offers and a pool table. It is a weeken ...

Madrediosa

Montpellier, France

Madrediosa is a queer and feminist bar in the Beaux-Arts quarter, just north of Montpellier's old town. It describes itself as a bar for queers and al ...

Luclà Cafè

Verona, Italy

Luclà is the only dedicated gay bar in Verona. It sits on a side street off Corso Porta Nuova, a few minutes from Piazza Bra and the Arena, and is a c ...

Lovers Benidorm

Benidorm, Spain

Lovers is on Carrer dels Quatre Cantons, the street that gives the Benidorm gay village its other name. It calls itself a meeting point for gay men an ...

Hempels

Oldenburg, Germany

Hempels is the pub-cafe on the ground floor of Oldenburg's queer centre, in the Ziegelhof quarter north of the old town. It is the part of the house a ...

The Closet

Weymouth, United Kingdom

The Closet is a bar and nightclub on Maiden Street in Weymouth, calling itself one of the South West's most iconic LGBTQ+ venues. It hosts drag shows, ...

The Basement Club

Barcelona, Spain

The Basement Club is a private gay club for men in a basement near Arc de Triomf, on the edge of Sant Pere and El Born. It is a sex club rather than a ...

Maricon Ghetto Friendly Bar

Barcelona, Spain

Maricon Ghetto Friendly Bar sits on Carrer d'Aribau, and the graffiti across its front window asks whether you are ready for it. Behind the glass it i ...

Madame Jasmine

Barcelona, Spain

Madame Jasmine is a bar on the Rambla del Raval that calls itself the genderfuck house. The inside is a jumble of patterned tiles, old framed photogra ...

Elvira Cafe

Barcelona, Spain

Elvira Cafe is a queer goth bar on Carrer del Consell de Cent, and it takes the theme seriously. It calls itself a queer monster bar and the fun dark ...

Titanic Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain

Titanic is a lesbian bar on Carrer de Muntaner, in the Gaixample. It calls itself a bar by women and for women, and the branding runs with the film: t ...

Rectum

Barcelona, Spain

Rectum is a private gay fetish cruising club for men on Carrer de Balmes, in the Eixample. It is members only, and it describes itself as a place to f ...

Men Factory

Barcelona, Spain

Men Factory is a private cruising club for men on Carrer de la Diputació, in the Gaixample. It is run as a members' association, and the space is buil ...

Friedrich Kaffee & Bar

Heidelberg, Germany

Friedrich Kaffee & Bar is a cafe-bar in Heidelberg's old town, just off Bismarckplatz, open from breakfast through to late at night. By day it serves ...

Hampshire Boulevard

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Hampshire Boulevard opened in 2002 and is the only dedicated LGBTQ+ venue Portsmouth has. It stands on Hampshire Terrace, at the edge of the universit ...

Jupi Bar

Hamburg, Germany

The Jupi Bar sits on the corner of the Caffamacherreihe and the Speckstraße in the Gängeviertel, the collectively run quarter in Hamburg's Neustadt. I ...

Hannya Club

Valencia, Spain

Hannya is a club for women on Carrer de Sueca in Ruzafa, and the only venue in Valencia built around that. Its own claim is bigger: that it is the onl ...

Labeerinto Gate48

Modena, Italy

Labeerinto Gate48 is a small brewpub on Via San Giacomo, inside the walls of Modena's old town. It pours the beers of the Labeerinto brewery, which ha ...

Die Schlucke

Marburg, Germany

The Schlucke is a small pub in the Renthof, in the lanes below Marburg castle. It describes itself as a centre for conventional, meditative and excess ...

La Luna

Los Llanos de Aridane, Spain

La Luna sits in an old Canarian townhouse a few steps from the Plaza de España in Los Llanos de Aridane. The room you want is the courtyard at the bac ...

Paraiso Beach Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

Paraiso is the second of the two gay beach clubs on Playa del Bajondillo, a little along the promenade from Eden. Sun loungers, umbrellas, food and dr ...

Le Privilège

Lille, France

Le Privilège has been on rue Royale in the Vieux-Lille since 2005, which makes it the longest-running gay bar in the city. It runs over three levels a ...

Le Pride

Nîmes, France

Le Pride is an LGBTQIA+ bar in the centre of Nîmes, a few streets from the Maison Carrée. It is a cocktail bar before anything else, and the counter c ...

Le Plumeau Bar

Bordeaux, France

Le Plumeau is a queer bar in the Chartrons, north of the centre and a short walk from the Émile Counord tram stop. It calls itself a queer bar but not ...

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 ...

Le Mixø

Brest, France

Le Mixø opened in February 2026 at the Octroi, in the rooms an English pub used to hold on rue Jean Jaurès. It calls itself a queer venue and opened w ...

Le Buster

Bordeaux, France

Le Buster is a gay bar on Rue de Cursol, a few minutes from Place Pey Berland. It is British run and pulls a mix of Bordeaux regulars and visitors pas ...

La Sal

Granada, Spain

La Sal has been open on Calle Santa Paula since 1988 by its own count, which makes it the oldest queer venue in Granada. It is a small, dim room rathe ...

La Dama de Ella

Palma, Spain

La Dama de Ella is a women's bar on the pedestrian stretch of Carrer de la Fàbrica in Santa Catalina. It runs as a café with food during the day and f ...

La Ciclatera Sotto il Mare

Bari, Italy

La Ciclatera Sotto il Mare sits on the old city walls on Via Venezia, with a terrace over the water looking across to the old port. It is the only bar ...

La Ciclatera

Bari, Italy

La Ciclatera is one of the oldest bars in Bari and now runs from Strada Angiola, a pedestrian lane in the old town, having moved there from its previo ...

La Casa de la Pradera

Barcelona, Spain

La Casa de la Pradera is a queer bar on Carrer de les Carretes in the Raval. It has been going for more than ten years and is a relaxed neighbourhood ...

La Camionera

London, United Kingdom

La Camionera is a lesbian bar on Well Street in Hackney, and it says so in its name and at the top of its own site. It works as a café and bar, walk-i ...

L'Ultim Bar

Sabadell, Spain

L'Ultim Bar is a bocateria and vermuteria on Carretera de Terrassa, out towards the northern edge of Sabadell. The food is what a Catalan neighbourhoo ...

L'Happy Café

Brest, France

L'Happy Café has been the gay bar in Brest since 2004, on rue Jean Jaurès a little east of the centre. Google files it under gay bar and so does every ...

L Bar food & drink

Lyon, France

The L Bar is the lesbian bar of Lyon, on rue du Garet just off place des Terreaux, and the French guides tend to call it the only one. It works as a b ...

Café Klatsch

Mannheim, Germany

Café Klatsch opened in 1990 behind the Nationaltheater and is the oldest gay bar in Mannheim. When it started, the people running it took the blackout ...

Kings Arms Soho

London, United Kingdom

The Kings Arms is a traditional pub on Poland Street, at the Oxford Street end of Soho. It calls itself Soho's oldest gay bar and London's favourite b ...

Jimmy's Bar Benidorm

Benidorm, Spain

Jimmy's Bar is on Carrer d'Alacant, one of the four or five old town streets that make up the Benidorm gay village. The front is a neon rainbow sign, ...

Im Briefkasten

Essen, Germany

Im Briefkasten is a gay pub opposite the main post office at Essen main station, and one of the oldest addresses in the city scene. The room is a trad ...

Iconic Bar

Manchester, United Kingdom

Iconic Bar sits on Richmond Street, a quieter back street just behind Canal Street in the middle of Manchester's Gay Village. The building was a haird ...

Flirt Cafe & Bar

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Flirt has been on The Triangle since 2011 and is the daytime half of Bournemouth's gay scene. It is a cafe first, doing breakfast, cake and coffee, an ...

Flamingoos

Breda, Netherlands

Flamingoos is a gay café on the Sint Janstraat, a narrow street in Breda's old centre a short walk from the Grote Markt. It has been open since 2015. ...

EVA

Manchester, United Kingdom

EVA calls itself Manchester's premier LGBTQ+ late night karaoke and party bar, on Sackville Street in the heart of the Gay Village. It is spread over ...

El Tremendo

Gijón, Spain

El Tremendo is on Calle Buen Suceso, in the middle of the Ruta de los Vinos, the run of bars that Gijón works its way along on a night out. It describ ...

El Abanico de La Ogra

Cartagena, Spain

El Abanico de La Ogra is the gay bar of Cartagena, on Calle Asdrúbal in the Ensanche, a few streets north of the Roman theatre and the old town. It ca ...

Divinity Karaoke Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Divinity Karaoke Bar is a karaoke and drag bar in the Yumbo Centrum in Playa del Ingles. The microphone comes out on the quieter nights and the drag s ...

Diversos Bar

Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

Diversos Bar is a Brazilian bar in Vila Nova de Gaia, on Rua do Cabo Borges in the Devesas part of Santa Marinha. It stands a short walk from the Jard ...

Fico d'India

Cagliari, Italy

Fico d'India is a beach bar, restaurant and club on the Poetto, the long city beach of Cagliari, where the seafront meets Via dell'Idrovora. It calls ...

Eiffel Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Eiffel Bar is a cocktail bar on the ground floor of the Yumbo Centrum in Playa del Ingles. The name and the Eiffel Tower on its sign are the French pa ...

Eden Beach

Torremolinos, Spain

Eden Beach is the LGBTQ+ beach club on Playa del Bajondillo, at the bottom of the drop from the town centre. It calls itself a chiringuito, which unde ...

Eclipse

Granada, Spain

Eclipse opened on Plaza de los Lobos in August 2021 and describes itself as a pub LGTBi in the centre of Granada. It is the newest of the city's gay b ...

Dorothy's Drag Bar

Groningen, Netherlands

Dorothy's is a drag bar on Pottebakkersrijge, in the rooms that carried the Groningen gay scene for decades under an earlier name. New owners took the ...

Den Enghel

Almere, Netherlands

Den Enghel is a bar and eetcafe on Zadelmakerstraat in Almere Stad, running since 2003. It is a brown cafe: dark wood, a long bar, a stamtafel for peo ...

De Kurk

Arnhem, Netherlands

De Kurk calls itself a queer café, and it is meant for the whole LGBTQ+ community rather than one corner of it. It opened in March 2024 on the Steenst ...

DD's Bar

Benidorm, Spain

DD's Bar is on Carrer de la Santa Faç, the street that carries most of the Benidorm gay village. It describes itself as an open bar with a calm atmosp ...

Carita Bonita

Barcelona, Spain

Carita Bonita is a music bar on Carrer de Balmes, in the stretch of the Eixample known as the Gaixample. It calls itself a women's music bar for lesbi ...

Guapatini's Show Bar

Puerto del Carmen, Spain

Guapatini's is a drag and comedy show bar on the ground floor of the Centro Comercial Atlántico, on the Puerto del Carmen seafront. The room is small, ...

Gaststätte Harlekin

Duisburg, Germany

The Harlekin is the last gay bar in Duisburg, a corner pub of about a hundred and thirty square metres in the Dellviertel, and it carries the whole sc ...

Garlands

Blackpool, United Kingdom

Garlands is an LGBTQ+ bar on Talbot Road in the centre of Blackpool, newly refurbished and free to get into. Drag is the main event: the bar lists ten ...

Zum Pümpchen

Essen, Germany

Zum Pümpchen is a gay pub on Kopstadtplatz, a small square a few steps off Essen's main shopping street. It is one of the older and plainer bars in th ...

Construction Bar

Lisbon, Portugal

Construction Bar is a gay bar on Rua da Rosa, in the upper part of the Bairro Alto. Its nights are built around DJs, with themed parties such as Triba ...

Confusion Open Gaypub

Osnabrück, Germany

Confusion is a queer pub on Pottgraben in the centre of Osnabrück. It calls itself a home for the LGBTQIA+ community and for anyone open-minded, and a ...

Café Queers

Arnhem, Netherlands

Café Queers is a gay café on the Jansplein in the centre of Arnhem. It opened in March 2025 in the premises of Café Colours, the gay bar that had run ...

Barbanarama

Madrid, Spain

Barbanarama is a gay bar on Calle de San Bartolomé, in the middle of Chueca. It describes itself as a drinks bar with good prices and current, fun mus ...

Bar Fibre

Leeds, United Kingdom

Bar Fibre has run on Lower Briggate since 2000 and spans three floors, from the main bar up to a members' area called the Penthouse. There's a courtya ...

Arch Clapham

London, United Kingdom

Arch Clapham is a gay cocktail bar in a railway arch on Voltaire Road, by Clapham High Street station. It opened in December 2020 and describes itself ...

Viaduct Showbar

Leeds, United Kingdom

Viaduct Showbar calls itself Leeds' number one venue for cabaret, and it has run choreographed drag shows on Lower Briggate for more than twenty years ...

The New Penny

Leeds, United Kingdom

The New Penny is Leeds' longest continuously operating gay pub. It began life as the Hope & Anchor in 1953 and took its current name in 1982, on Call ...

Queens Court & Pride

Leeds, United Kingdom

Queens Court has anchored Leeds' Freedom Quarter since the 1990s, and a six-figure refurbishment by its current operator relaunched the ground floor b ...

Flamingos Coffee House

Leeds, United Kingdom

Flamingos Coffee House is a cafe in Leeds' Central Arcade that describes its own mission as building community, centring queer voices and keeping thin ...

Blayds Bar

Leeds, United Kingdom

Blayds Bar sits in a courtyard just off Lower Briggate, tucked away from the main run of bars on the street. It describes itself as one of Leeds' reco ...

Bears Bar Torremolinos

Torremolinos, Spain

Bears Bar is a bar for bears and their admirers in La Nogalera, the complex of bars and clubs at the centre of the gay scene in Torremolinos. It calls ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ON Bar Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

ON Bar is on Canal Street near the Sackville Street end, on the canal side. It runs over three floors and has a convertible rooftop bar, which almost ...

G-A-Y Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

G-A-Y Manchester is the northern outpost of the G-A-Y chain, on Richmond Street with its entrance round the corner towards Canal Street, which catches ...

Boca

Torre del Lago Puccini, Italy

Boca is at the far end of Viale Europa, where the strip runs into the pine forest and the path to the beach. It is built as a chiringuito rather than ...

Baddy

Torre del Lago Puccini, Italy

Baddy sits a few doors along Viale Europa from Mamamia and is run by the same people. It is the smaller, more talkative half of the pair: a bar with a ...

Via Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

Via has stood on Canal Street since 1995 and is one of the biggest venues on the strip. It works as a bar, a club and a restaurant at the same time, w ...

Eagle Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

Eagle is a men-only members bar on Bloom Street, at the western edge of the Gay Village. Entry needs a membership card, which anyone who identifies as ...

Company Bar

Manchester, United Kingdom

Company Bar is a small basement bar on Richmond Street, a couple of doors from The Molly House and under the same ownership. It has been open since 19 ...

Bar Pop

Manchester, United Kingdom

Bar Pop opened on Canal Street in September 2013. It is independent and LGBTQ+ owned and run, and it shares an owner with The Church, a few streets aw ...

Bar Club H46

Brno, Czech Republic

Bar Club H46, known to everyone in Brno as Háčko, has been running since 1992 and calls itself the oldest gay and lesbian bar in the city. Its motto, ...

Oval Office Bar

Bochum, Germany

A queer basement bar in the Schauspielhaus Bochum, with a small stage at one end. The theatre houses it, but the bar itself is run by KosmoPolis, an a ...

Nathan Café

Geneva, Switzerland

Nathan Café is a gay bar in the Eaux-Vives, a short walk from the lake. It is larger inside than the front suggests: several lounge areas, two bookcas ...

Cruising Canyon

Geneva, Switzerland

Cruising Canyon is a men-only cruising club in the Pâquis, a couple of streets from Cornavin station. It describes itself as the first private gay cru ...

Velvet 79

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Velvet 79 is a queer cocktail lounge on Calle Veintinueve de Abril, in the Santa Catalina district of the capital. It opened in June 2026 and sums its ...

Comeback Bar

Bern, Switzerland

Comeback Bar sits in a vaulted stone cellar under the Rathausgasse in Bern's old town. It opened in 2000 and marked its 25th year in 2025. The bar's o ...

La Flamenca

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

La Flamenca is a small gay cafe and pub on Calle Secretario Artiles, on the edge of Parque de Santa Catalina. It works as a cafe during the day and a ...

Café Kalff

Utrecht, Netherlands

Cafe Kalff has been on the Oudegracht since 2011, a few doors along from Bodytalk, and between them the two make up Utrecht's gay bar scene. The motto ...

Bodytalk

Utrecht, Netherlands

Bodytalk opened on the Oudegracht in 1987 and is the oldest gay bar still running in Utrecht. It has had the same owner the whole time, which is rare ...

Instinto

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Instinto is a gay bar on Calle General Vives, a few streets back from Playa de las Canteras in the Santa Catalina district of the capital. Its own sit ...

Il Barattolo

Bologna, Italy

Il Barattolo is a small queer bar on Via del Borgo di San Pietro, a few minutes' walk from the two towers. It is one of the very few bars in Bologna w ...

Styx Club

Bologna, Italy

Styx is a gay club a short walk from Bologna Centrale station, opened under the ARCO association. The front of it is a proper bar: brick walls, a long ...

Fucktory Palma

Palma, Spain

Fucktory is a cruise club in Bons Aires, a few streets from Dark Cruising Bar, and between them the two make up most of Palma's cruising scene. The cl ...

The2 Palma

Palma, Spain

The2 is a gay pub in the Arxiduc district, a few minutes north of Plaça d'Espanya, open since October 2016. It calls itself a pub rather than a club, ...

Dark Cruising Bar

Palma, Spain

Dark Cruising Bar has been a meeting point for men in Palma for over fifteen years, on a side street in Bons Aires north of the centre. It is a fetish ...

HELLo! Bar

Tallinn, Estonia

HELLo! Bar opened in May 2023 at Väike-Karja 1, a minute off Tallinn's main Old Town drag. It calls itself a simple gay bar, and that is the size of i ...

Euforia

Milan, Italy

Euforia took over the Piazzale Lavater premises that were Blanco for years, one of the longest-running gay-friendly bars in the neighbourhood. It is r ...

Piscis Club

Murcia, Spain

Piscis opened in May 1980, when a gay bar in Murcia was something you found by word of mouth. It is still running, and the city eventually named the a ...

Valentino cafe & bar

Dresden, Germany

Valentino calls itself the gay cafe of the Dresden Neustadt, on Jordanstraße a short walk from Königsbrücker Straße. It works as a cafe in the afterno ...

Le Bear's Bar

Toulouse, France

The Bear's is the bear address of Toulouse, on boulevard de la Gare east of the centre, and it runs later than the bars in town. It calls itself a bar ...

MEN's Bar

Copenhagen, Denmark

MEN's Bar is the men-only bar in Copenhagen, a small dark room on Teglgårdstræde in the Pisserenden quarter, two minutes from the Town Hall Square. Wo ...

WunderBar

Maspalomas, Spain

WunderBar is one of the busiest German bars in the Yumbo Centrum, on the ground floor next door to Spartacus. The terrace seats around eighty in wicke ...

tête-à-tête

Valencia, Spain

tête-à-tête is a cruise bar in Quatre Carreres, south of the centre and away from the other two, which makes it the one you go to on purpose rather th ...

UnderGround

Munich, Germany

The UnderGround is the clubhouse of the Münchner Löwen Club, Munich's fetish association, and sits in Obersendling rather than in the Glockenbachviert ...

Tangerine

Frankfurt, Germany

Tangerine is the old pub of the Frankfurt gay quarter, a small room in Elefantengasse fitted out with heavy wooden furniture of the kind German pubs h ...

SLM Stockholm

Stockholm, Sweden

SLM stands for Scandinavian Leather Men. It is a leather and fetish club for men who have sex with men, founded in 1975, which makes it one of the old ...

Lokum Stonewall

Poznań, Poland

Lokum is the bar of Grupa Stonewall, the Poznań association behind the city's Pride, and it calls itself the most rainbow point on the map of Poznań. ...

Savoy Bar

Nuremberg, Germany

The Savoy calls itself the oldest still-running scene pub in the Nuremberg Südstadt, just south of the main station, and it has been going for over fo ...

The Vintage Inn

Dublin, Ireland

The Vintage Inn is a small pub on Irishtown Road in Dublin 4, run by a queer couple. It is a local rather than a scene bar, and it is one of the few p ...

The Muse Valencia

Valencia, Spain

The Muse is a disco pub in La Saïdia, north of the old centre and a short walk from Deseo 54. It is bigger than the Ruzafa bars, with a dancefloor, mu ...

The Boots

Antwerp, Belgium

The Boots is the fetish club of Antwerp, running for over thirty years and spread across six floors near the central station. It is one of the referen ...

The 3B - The Bearded Bear Bar

Cologne, Germany

The 3B is the bear bar of Cologne's Altstadt, in the room on Mühlenbach that ran for years as the Cox and made its name as a bear bar in the nineties. ...

Sui Generis Milano

Milan, Italy

Sui Generis is on the corner where Via Panfilo Castaldi meets Via Lecco, which puts it at the entrance to the Porta Venezia scene rather than in the m ...

Spijker Bar

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Spijker has been on the Kerkstraat since the late 1970s, opened in imitation of The Spike in New York and named after it. It started as a leather ...

Soho

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Soho is a cafe and club on the Reguliersdwarsstraat, built to look like an English pub: dark wood, a long bar downstairs, and a second floor with more ...

Taboo Bar

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Taboo is one of the busiest bars on the Reguliersdwarsstraat and takes a wide mix of people, young and old, locals and visitors. It shares a large str ...

Side Bar

Lisbon, Portugal

Side Bar sits on the corner of Rua da Barroca that Lisbon simply calls the gay corner, in the middle of Bairro Alto. Its own line for itself is an inv ...

Red Cafè Milano

Milan, Italy

Red Cafè is on the corner of Via Panfilo Castaldi and Via Lecco, in the middle of the Porta Venezia cluster. It is the cheap one: gin and tonics at a ...

Side Track

Stockholm, Sweden

Side Track is a basement bar on Södermalm, a few minutes from Mariatorget station. It has been running since 1998 and calls itself the oldest gay bar ...

Switchboard bar.cafe.kultur

Frankfurt, Germany

Switchboard has been on Alte Gasse since 1988. It was planned by Frankfurt gay groups together with AIDS-Hilfe Frankfurt, and it is still the associat ...

Thomaskeller

Hamburg, Germany

The Thomaskeller is a small gay basement bar in St. Georg, tucked on the Rostocker Straße between the Steindamm and the Lange Reihe. The space was onc ...

Tiki Boy

Maspalomas, Spain

Tiki Boy is a small cocktail bar on the second floor of the Yumbo Centrum, next door to Tom's Cruising Bar. The list runs to tiki drinks alongside the ...

Toom Peerstall

Hamburg, Germany

Toom Peerstall is a cosy queer pub on the Clemens-Schultz-Straße in St. Pauli, a traditional Schankwirtschaft run by and for the queer community, its ...

Café de Vink

The Hague, Netherlands

Café de Vink is the oldest gay bar in The Hague, on Schoolstraat just off the Grote Markt. It is a Dutch brown-cafe kind of room turned party bar: sma ...

TOP Club

Riga, Latvia

TOP Club is a gay and LGBT bar and nightclub in Riga's central district, on a quiet side street a few minutes' walk from the central station. The club ...

DIVINE Bar

Essen, Germany

DIVINE Bar is a wine bar, cafe and stage on Viehofer Straße in the middle of Essen, and the address for drag in the city. It opened in spring 2024 in ...

FRIENDS Bar

Bremen, Germany

FRIENDS is a gay cocktail bar in the Bahnhofsvorstadt, five minutes on foot from Bremen main station. It has been running for twenty years and calls i ...

Café 't Achterom

The Hague, Netherlands

Café 't Achterom is a gay bar on a narrow lane behind the shopping streets in the middle of The Hague, running since 2013. It describes itself as the ...

Street 66

Dublin, Ireland

Street 66 took over the old Front Lounge site on Parliament Street, at the Dublin Castle end of Temple Bar. It is a lounge bar rather than a club: low ...

Chez les Jumeaux

Toulouse, France

Chez les Jumeaux is a gay bar near the Carmes quarter, the part of Toulouse where the scene has been since the eighties, and it is one of the newer ar ...

UP&DOWN Bar&Club

Prague, Czech Republic

UP&DOWN is on Seifertova in Žižkov and is really two venues in one building. UP is the ground-floor bar, DOWN is the gay club in the cellar underneath ...

Café New Heaven

Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Café New Heaven is the queer café in Esch-sur-Alzette, on the Grand-Rue in the middle of the town's pedestrian shopping street. Esch is Luxembourg's s ...

Café KWEER

Bremen, Germany

KWEER is the cafe and bar of Rat&Tat, the queer centre of Bremen, in the Ostertor quarter. It changes character depending on the evening: a bar with a ...

Bronx

Bremen, Germany

Bronx is a small leather and fetish bar on a side street in the Ostertor quarter, and the only one of its kind in Bremen. The room is black, arched an ...

BOYS Bar Dresden

Dresden, Germany

BOYS is one of the oldest gay bars in Dresden and the usual first stop of a night in the Neustadt, on Alaunstraße in the middle of the quarter. It cal ...

Bar59

Nuremberg, Germany

Bar59 is a small gay bar on a quiet lane in the Nuremberg old town, open since 2012. The city's Green party group once described it, alongside Bert's ...

Bar Romantis

Hanover, Germany

Bar Romantis is a gay cocktail bar a few minutes' walk from Hannover main station, and the decoration is the reason people describe it before they des ...

Bar Saxxim

Dresden, Germany

Saxxim opened in October 2018 on Görlitzer Straße, inside what Dresden calls the Bermuda triangle of the Neustadt, where the nightlife runs into the d ...

Zone283

Bremen, Germany

Zone283 is Bremen's fetish club, in a courtyard off Kornstraße in the Neustadt. It has been going since 1996 and is run as a registered association ra ...

Pub Red Light

Gdańsk, Poland

Red Light is the pub people name first when someone asks where queer Gdansk goes. It hosts the Before party for the Trójmiejski Marsz Równości, the Tr ...

Room Bulevard

Helsinki, Finland

Room Bulevard, usually written Room BLVD, is a gay bar on Bulevardi that opened in autumn 2016. It is the quiet end of Helsinki's queer nightlife: pal ...

Samis Bar

Athens, Greece

Samis is one of the oldest gay bars in Greece, in Metaxourgeio near the main train station rather than in Gazi. It occupies a listed building of aroun ...

Dilema

Seville, Spain

Dilema is a queer bar on the Alameda de Hercules with a terrace and a room decorated to no particular scheme. Its own Instagram sums up the door polic ...

gentleM

Dortmund, Germany

gentleM is a queer café, bar and event lounge on Bornstraße, a few minutes north of Dortmund's main station. It started in Dortmund as a gay bar in 20 ...

Centre Stage CPH

Copenhagen, Denmark

Centre Stage opened in August 2024 in the Studiestræde room that held Cosy Bar for decades, and it does not pretend to be starting from nothing. The b ...

Jailhouse CPH

Copenhagen, Denmark

Jailhouse is the gay bar on Studiestræde built as a prison. Guests sit in cells, the walls are done in graffiti and bars, and the staff work in unifor ...

Masken Bar

Copenhagen, Denmark

Masken is one of the older bars on Studiestræde, the street that carries most of Copenhagen's gay nightlife, five minutes from the Town Hall Square. I ...

VOX Bar

Vilnius, Lithuania

VOX is the gay bar in Vilnius, in the singular: the city has one club, one sauna and this bar, at the edge of the old town on Teatro g. next to the Ru ...

FreeID – Queer Social Bar

Naples, Italy

FreeID bills itself as the first queer social bar in Naples. Antinoo Arcigay Napoli opened it and runs it, in Vico San Geronimo, a lane off Via Benede ...

Café Monroe's

Stuttgart, Germany

Café Monroe's is a gay bar in the middle of Stuttgart, on the pedestrianised Schulstraße between the Markthalle and the Rathaus. It is decorated aroun ...

Rågsveds Krog

Stockholm, Sweden

Rågsveds Krog is a pub in Rågsved, out at the southern end of the red metro line, fitted out like an American diner. It describes itself as a unique e ...

Elio

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Elio opened in April 2025 on Van Oldenbarneveltstraat, in the room where the gay bar De Regenboog had stood for twenty-two years. It is run by the peo ...

Café Vielfalt

Düsseldorf, Germany

A queer café and bar on Karlstraße in Stadtmitte, which opened in May 2025 after a difficult run-up its own first post described plainly. It works ...

Comeback

Düsseldorf, Germany

A small gay pub in Friedrichstadt, on the corner of Charlottenstraße and Bismarckstraße, with the door on the Bismarckstraße side. Queenz is a couple ...

Del Sol Cafe

Athens, Greece

Del Sol is a gay cafe bar on Voutadon in Kerameikos, at the top end of the Gazi square. It opens in the morning and runs through to late, so it works ...

Café KeerWeer

Rotterdam, Netherlands

KeerWeer is a small gay party café in the short alley of the same name, just off the Westblaak, and it has been there for around forty years. It calls ...

The Cuckoo's Nest

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Cuckoo's Nest is a cruise bar for men off the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, near the Dam. Upstairs it is an ordinary enough cafe. The reason people com ...

Café Strano

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Strano is a gay bar on Van Oldenbarneveltstraat, one side of the small block of streets that makes up gay Rotterdam. It has been open for more than tw ...

Lolita's

Málaga, Spain

Lolita's is a gay bar on the small Plaza de San Francisco in Málaga's old town, run by the team that had Lola's Copas a few streets away before it clo ...

reBOOTS

Stuttgart, Germany

reBOOTS is a western bar in Stuttgart-Süd, which is an unlikely thing for a queer bar to be and is exactly the point. Wood panelling, a saloon look, a ...

EAGLE Stuttgart

Stuttgart, Germany

The EAGLE is Stuttgart's leather and fetish bar, in Stuttgart-Süd rather than in the old town where the rest of the scene sits. It opened in 1989 and ...

Exit Drinks

Palermo, Italy

The bar of Palermo's LGBTQ+ community, in its own words, and it has been that since 1996. It sits on Piazza San Francesco di Paola, between the Polite ...

Pennylane

Dublin, Ireland

Pennylane opened in January 2019 as the sister bar to PantiBar, two minutes away on the other side of Capel Street. It is the quieter of the two: a co ...

El Carmen Bar

Málaga, Spain

El Carmen is the anchor of Málaga's LGBT quarter, on the Plaza de la Merced at the top of the old town. It has been open more than fifteen years and c ...

Kiss Kiss

Copenhagen, Denmark

Kiss Kiss opened in August 2014 at the quieter end of Studiestræde and settled into being the city's bear bar. It runs over two floors, which is unusu ...

Café de Estraperlo

Málaga, Spain

Estraperlo is a café bar in Soho, the arts quarter between the port and Calle Larios, and it is the LGBTQI+ address on that side of the city rather th ...

Café Bonaparte

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Bonaparte is a gay and drag café on the Nieuwe Binnenweg, west of the centre and a short walk from the Eendrachtsplein end of the gay quarter. It is a ...

Bee kök & bar

Gothenburg, Sweden

Bee is a restaurant and bar in the Stora Saluhallen market hall on Kungstorget, in the middle of Gothenburg and across the street from the Avalon Hote ...

Café naar Ons

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Naar Ons is a gay café on the Oude Binnenweg, the shopping street that runs west out of the centre. It opened in October 2022 and looks like a traditi ...

Big Bar

Athens, Greece

Big Bar is the bear bar in Athens, and has been since 2004, which makes it the first of its kind in the city. It is on Falaisias, at the far end of Ga ...

AromA Bar

Düsseldorf, Germany

A café and bar on Bunsenstraße in Friedrichstadt that opened in February 2023 and was reported at the time as a new bar for the queer community. It ru ...

Apart Bar

Leipzig, Germany

The city-centre gay bar in Leipzig, on Reichsstraße between the main station and the market square, and the one most visitors are pointed at first. It ...

Pixi Kollektivbar

Leipzig, Germany

A queer neighbourhood bar on Georg-Schwarz-Straße in Lindenau, run as a collective rather than by an owner: a group of people plan it, run it and deci ...

Havanna Club

Leipzig, Germany

Probably the smallest scene bar in Leipzig, and it says so itself. It sits in the Theaterpassage under the Krochhochhaus, a step off Augustusplatz, wh ...

COCKS Bar

Leipzig, Germany

A men-only cruising bar in central Leipzig, running since 2005 and billed as the largest in Saxony. It shares the Otto-Schill-Straße address and the o ...

Wirtshaus fesch am Kirchsteig

Dießen am Ammersee, Germany

Wirtshaus fesch am Kirchsteig is a Bavarian pub in the St. Georgen part of Dießen, up the hill from the Ammersee. The building had been empty for mont ...

Bar Studio 1

Düsseldorf, Germany

A small bar on Jahnstraße in Carlstadt, under a vaulted ceiling, with a vintage room that has been in place for more than twenty years. Its own descri ...

Beaver

Athens, Greece

Beaver is a women's cooperative running a cafe bar on Vasileiou tou Megalou, west of Gazi. It is run collectively rather than owned, and that shapes b ...

Bar Loge90

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Loge90 sits on the Schiedamsedijk, a couple of minutes from Beurs metro station, and has been part of the Rotterdam gay scene for over twenty years. T ...

SLM Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Denmark

Scandinavian Leather Men Copenhagen has been running since 1974 and is one of the largest gay fetish clubs in Europe. It is a members-only club: you j ...

Body Bio

Copenhagen, Denmark

Body Bio is a small, dark cruise club in a Vesterbro basement, ten minutes on foot from Central Station. It opens in the middle of the day, which is m ...

Street Pride Bar

Helsinki, Finland

Street Pride is a queer bar on Uudenmaankatu, between Kamppi and Punavuori. You cannot miss the front: rainbow stripes across the whole shopfront, a K ...

Pub Fairytale

Helsinki, Finland

Fairytale is a small gay bar on Helsinginkatu in Kallio. You ring a doorbell to get in and the windows are papered over, so from the street it gives n ...

Hugo's Bar

Helsinki, Finland

Hugo's Bar opened at the top of Annankatu in Punavuori on Christmas Eve 2025, in the room that held the FlyAF bar until earlier that year. It is a bee ...

Bar Struts

Helsinki, Finland

Bar Struts is a cocktail bar on Fleminginkatu in Kallio. It calls itself a very queer cocktail bar, run by the queers, for the queers and friends. The ...

El Bosque Animado

Seville, Spain

El Bosque Animado is a gay bar on Calle Arias Montano, the short side street off the Alameda de Hercules where most of Seville's gay nightlife sits. I ...

Exile

Cologne, Germany

Exile is the dance bar of Schaafenstraße, a few doors up from Ex-Corner. Two bars so the queue moves, a dance floor, and seating along the sides for t ...

My Lord

Cologne, Germany

My Lord is a bar and café on Mühlenbach aimed at older gay men and the people who like them. Bears and admirers make up most of the room, and the staf ...

Senzafronzoli

Turin, Italy

Senzafronzoli is the queer name of Pausa Cafe, a cocktail bar on the Dora embankment in Aurora, a few streets from the Porta Palazzo market. The bar h ...

La Boba y el Gato Rancio

Valencia, Spain

La Boba y el Gato Rancio is on Carrer de Cuba in Ruzafa, and it works as a cafe as readily as a bar. Coffee and desserts in the afternoon, cocktails l ...

Urano

Zaragoza, Spain

Urano sits on Calle Bernardo Fita, the short street between Cortes de Aragón and Doctor Cerrada that holds most of Zaragoza's gay nightlife. Imán is a ...

La Carmen

Valencia, Spain

La Carmen opened in November 2025 on Carrer de Roteros, in the Carme quarter of the old town and a few doors from the Axel hotel. It is the newest LGB ...

Pub Templo

Valencia, Spain

Pub Templo is a small LGBTQ+ music bar in Ruzafa, on the stretch of Carrer del Mossén Femenia that also holds Barber Club. Drag performances and live ...

Pride B4R

Seville, Spain

Pride B4R ran as Men to Men from 2002 until the rename, and the layout has not changed with the name. The ground floor is a bar with a DJ and room to ...

Mentiroso Cafe-Bar

Seville, Spain

Mentiroso is a gay cafe-bar a few steps from the Metropol Parasol, which puts it away from the Alameda de Hercules and the rest of the scene. It works ...

Coffee Planet

Wrocław, Poland

Coffee Planet was the LGBT+ cafe bar on the Rynek, Wrocław's market square, and for years the scene's daytime meeting point as much as its night one. ...

Cactus Club

Naples, Italy

Cactus is a cruising bar on two levels just off Piazza Portanova, a few minutes from Piazza del Gesù Nuovo in the old centre. The first level holds th ...

Barcelon Colonia

Cologne, Germany

Barcelon Colonia opened in 2011 in the Altstadt near Heumarkt and runs on a loose Barcelona theme. The drinks list is longer than the street needs, wi ...

PINK Frankfurt

Frankfurt, Germany

PINK is the loud one on Alte Gasse. A music bar with a narrow dance floor and a small raised stage, playing pop, chart music and remixes, with DJ sets ...

Na und?

Frankfurt, Germany

Na und? sits a few hundred metres from the Konstablerwache, off to one side of the bar cluster around Alte Gasse. That distance is the whole point: it ...

TWIST Bar Frankfurt

Frankfurt, Germany

TWIST is the LGBTQ+ bar of Alt-Sachsenhausen, on the other side of the Main from the Alte Gasse cluster. It reopened at this address in April 2025 aft ...

Flamingo Bar Sevilla

Seville, Spain

Flamingo is a cafe-bar on Calle Arias Montano, immediately next to El Bosque Animado. It took over the premises that were the bar Versalles and reopen ...

Pub Imán

Zaragoza, Spain

Imán is at the corner end of Calle Bernardo Fita, the street that carries Zaragoza's gay nightlife, with Urano at number 9 and Women 2.0 at number 11. ...

IYKYK Queer Bar

Kaiserslautern, Germany

IYKYK opened in March 2025 on Pariser Straße, out towards the western edge of Kaiserslautern, and calls itself the only queer bar in the KMC, the Kais ...

Hynes' Bar

Dublin, Ireland

Hynes' Bar is a neighbourhood pub on Prussia Street in Stoneybatter, north of the Liffey and well outside the city-centre gay circuit. It is run by a ...

Caffe bar Kolaž

Zagreb, Croatia

Kolaž is a small basement bar on Ulica Milana Amruša, a short walk south of Ban Jelačić Square. It works as a café through the day and turns into a ba ...

Exit Cafe

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Exit Cafe is a late gay bar in the middle of the Reguliersdwarsstraat, in the same building as Club NYX. It calls itself the nicest gay night bar in A ...

Zum Schwejk

Frankfurt, Germany

Zum Schwejk is the oldest gay pub still running in Frankfurt, a few steps off the Zeil in Schäfergasse. The room is small and covered in framed film s ...

Zur Kaiserin

Cologne, Germany

Zur Kaiserin is a small bar in the Altstadt, wedged between Barcelon Colonia and Baustelle4U near Heumarkt. One room, a few tables on the pavement in ...

Hotpot Bar

Zagreb, Croatia

Hotpot is the main gay bar and club in Zagreb, on Petrinjska in the city centre, a few minutes on foot from the main railway station. The entrance is ...

El Bunker

Seville, Spain

El Bunker is a men-only cruising and fetish club on two floors, around 220 square metres, a short walk from the Alameda de Hercules. It runs as a memb ...

Bohemia Bar

Seville, Spain

Bohemia is a small gay bar on Calle Amor de Dios, the street that also holds the club Itaca and the hotel Dona Lola. It is one of a handful of places ...

1987 Bar

Seville, Spain

1987 Bar plays music from the eighties and decorates to match. It calls itself the first eighties-themed discopub in Spain, which is its own claim and ...

Iron Cocktail Lounge

Cologne, Germany

Iron is the cocktail bar of Schaafenstraße, at the Rudolfplatz end of the gay quarter, directly next to Die Mumu. Darker and calmer than the bars arou ...

Denis Club

Zagreb, Croatia

Denis is a cruising club for gay men on Mrazovićeva, about ten minutes on foot from Zagreb's main railway station. Nothing on the street says so. Ring ...

Comeback Bar & Lounge

Frankfurt, Germany

Comeback sits on Alte Gasse, the short street that holds most of Frankfurt's gay nightlife. It is a small bar with a lounge at the front. At the weeke ...

Bubu

Valencia, Spain

Bubu is Valencia's bear bar, on Carrer del Botànic in Extramurs, a couple of minutes from the Àngel Guimerà metro. Its own description of the crowd is ...

Las Vegas

Valencia, Spain

Las Vegas is a drag bar in Ruzafa, on Carrer de Carles Cervera in the ground floor right-hand unit. Shows are the draw and entry to them is free, whic ...

Lucky's

Frankfurt, Germany

Lucky's has been part of the Frankfurt scene for more than forty years. It spent most of them in Schäfergasse and moved to Große Friedberger Straße in ...

Lindo Bar

Kraków, Poland

Lindo is an LGBT+ bar on Sławkowska, a couple of minutes' walk from the Main Square. It works on two levels. Upstairs is a small cafe and lounge that ...

La Barbería Night Club

Valencia, Spain

La Barbería is out in the Grau, the old harbour quarter, well away from the Ruzafa and old-town clusters. Trams 6 and 8 stop nearby. It is a drag and ...

Època

Valencia, Spain

Època is an LGBTIQ+ pub on Carrer de Borrull, west of the old centre between the Àngel Guimerà and Túria metro stops. Drag is the core of the programm ...

Bar Central

Frankfurt, Germany

Bar Central is the cocktail bar of the Frankfurt gay quarter, one street behind Alte Gasse in Elefantengasse. Black walls, a red floor and a lit spiri ...

Club Ciemnia

Kraków, Poland

Ciemnia is a cruising club in Kleparz, just north of the Old Town, and the layout says what it is for: bars, a run of corridors and darkrooms. It is a ...

Nachteule

Cologne, Germany

The Nachteule – Your vibrant LGBTQ+ living room in Cologne! Looking for a place where you can truly be yourself? Whether you are looking for a rela ...

Kattwinkel

Cologne, Germany

Kattwinkel sits directly beside the Eigelsteintorburg, well away from the Rudolfplatz cluster, and is the gay and lesbian bar of the Eigelstein quarte ...

Prik

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Prik has been on the Spuistraat since July 2006. The name is Dutch for fizz, which is a joke about the house drink: prosecco on tap, white or pink. Th ...

De Lellebel

Amsterdam, Netherlands

De Lellebel has been running just off Rembrandtplein since November 1997 and is Amsterdam's drag show bar. It is trans and queer women owned and run, ...

Ex-Corner

Cologne, Germany

ExCorner has been part of Cologne’s LGBTQ+ scene for **several decades**, combining the traditional atmosphere of a Cologne pub with a warm, welcoming ...

Ochsengarten

Munich, Germany

The Ochsengarten opened in 1967 and was Germany's first leather bar. It is still on Müllerstraße, in the middle of the Glockenbachviertel, and it is s ...

Bar BLEND XL

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bar BLEND XL is the bigger of the two BLEND bars on the Reguliersdwarsstraat, sitting across the street from the original at number 41. Homohoreca.ams ...

Bar BLEND

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bar BLEND is a gay bar on the Reguliersdwarsstraat, the street that has been Amsterdam's best known gay nightlife strip since 1980. It is one of three ...

Metrò Club Milano

Milan, Italy

Metrò is the sauna behind Milano Centrale, a few minutes from the station on foot, which makes it the one people find first. It has been there long en ...

Le Mineshaft

Marseille, France

Le Mineshaft is a gay leather and BDSM club on Rue Mazagran, about five hundred metres from the Canebière. It is the premises of the FSMC, a registere ...

Pullermanns

Cologne, Germany

Pullermanns opened on Mathiasstraße in 1972 and is the oldest of the gay fetish and cruising bars still running in Cologne. Men only. The front is ...

Le Pulse

Marseille, France

Le Pulse is a gay bar at the top end of Cours Julien, in the alternative quarter above the Vieux-Port. The room itself is small and air-conditioned, a ...

Lola

Milan, Italy

Lola is a small cocktail bar on Via Tadino, the street directly behind Via Lecco. Its own line is "ci stanno tutti", everyone fits, which is both a we ...

Free Willie

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Free Willie is a naked late-night bar for men on the Amstel, open since December 2023. Clothes come off at the door. The bar puts it as comfort with n ...

Dorothy's

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Dorothy's is an LGBTQI+ bar in the Rives de Clausen, the converted brewery site below the old town where most of Luxembourg City's late-night bars sit ...

Depot Napoli

Naples, Italy

Depot calls itself the first fetish cruising gay bar in Naples. It is on Via della Veterinaria, next to the botanical garden north of the historic cen ...

Mälarpaviljongen

Stockholm, Sweden

Mälarpaviljongen is a garden restaurant, café and bar built out over the water on Norr Mälarstrand on Kungsholmen. The pavilion itself dates from 1943 ...

Le Gléck

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Le Gléck is a gay bar on the Grand-Rue in Luxembourg City, in the room the capital's previous gay bar left empty when it shut. The name is the Luxembo ...

Le Trash Bar

Marseille, France

Le Trash Bar is Marseille's best known gay cruising bar, on Rue du Berceau in the 5th arrondissement. It has been running since the early 2000s and is ...

House of Q

Stockholm, Sweden

House of Q is a queer cultural house in Värtahamnen, in the old head office of the retail chain Indiska. It runs across three floors and a roof terrac ...

Cafe Montmartre XL

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Cafe Montmartre is a singalong bar, the Dutch meezingcafe: Dutch-language hits, the whole room joining in, and no pretence of being a club. It ran for ...

Zanzibar Café

Saint-Denis, France

The Zanzibar is a bar-brasserie on Rue Pasteur in central Saint-Denis, and it is the address the gay guides have pointed at for years as the main gay ...

L'Annexe Bar made in Marseille

Marseille, France

L'Annexe is a gay bar on Rue Saint-Bazile in the Chapitre quarter, a short walk from the Réformés-Canebière metro station. It calls itself gay, gay-fr ...

Cafe The Queen's Head

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Queen's Head has been on the Zeedijk since April 1998 and is the reliably sociable end of that street, a couple of doors from the water. The back ...

Dirty Dicks

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dirty Dicks is a fetish cruise bar on the Warmoesstraat, the street in the old red light district that has carried Amsterdam's leather scene since the ...

BOUM Marseille

Marseille, France

BOUM is an inclusive dance bar on Rue André Poggioli, a side street off Cours Julien in the Plaine quarter. It calls itself a bar culturel and puts LG ...

Baustelle4U

Cologne, Germany

Baustelle4U is a pub in Cologne's Altstadt, in the rooms that ran for years as the Zille. It got its name during the rebuild in 2010: people were alre ...

Deck 5

Cologne, Germany

Deck 5 is a small late-night cruising bar off Heumarkt, a few steps from the Altstadt bars. One room with a bar, screens showing porn, and a compact d ...

Bears Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bears Amsterdam calls itself the city's first bear den, and the claim holds up: Amsterdam has run big bear events for years without ever having a perm ...

Bar Replik

Stockholm, Sweden

Bar Replik has stood on Hornsgatan since 2004. New operators took it over in January 2025 and have run it as a queer bar since, and the bar's own fron ...

Amadeus

Cologne, Germany

Amadeus is a café bar in the Altstadt at the foot of the Klein Sankt Martin tower, painted pink almost throughout. It works as a café in the daytime a ...

Sirena - Drag Bar & Gay Café

Sliema, Malta

Sirena opened on Triq Windsor in Sliema in September 2025 and calls itself Malta's first drag bar. It works as a café by day and a show venue in the e ...

Patra

Prague, Czech Republic

Patra is a queer café and bar on Krymská in Vršovice, spread over two floors. It is the home venue of Mezipatra, the Czech queer film festival, and do ...

X Bar Prague

Prague, Czech Republic

X Bar is a gay strip bar on Pod Plynojemem in Libeň, out beyond the usual Vinohrady circuit. Pole dancing runs through the night and the dancers work ...

Prosecco

Munich, Germany

Prosecco is on a side street off Müllerstraße and has been running for more than three decades. Its own description is "queer all year". Part bar, par ...

Kween Queer Bar

Valletta, Malta

Kween opened in autumn 2025 on Triq il-Merkanti in Valletta, in the premises of the former Wild Honey Bar, and describes itself as a queer-owned bar a ...

Piano Bar

Prague, Czech Republic

Piano Bar sits on Milešovská just off the Vinohrady gay quarter and is one of the oldest continuously running gay bars in Prague. A century-old piano ...

Don't Tell Mama

Milan, Italy

Don't Tell Mama opened in NoLo in 2023 and calls itself the first drag bar in Milan. The claim rests on a distinction worth making: plenty of Milan ba ...

Cafe Society

Valletta, Malta

Cafe Society is run by a gay couple on the steps of Triq San Gwann in Valletta, at the corner of Triq San Pawl. The tables sit outside on the steps, t ...

Qcafé

Prague, Czech Republic

Qcafé is a small gay bar on Opatovická in Nové Město, close to Národní třída. It works as a café earlier on and as a bar later. The coffee list is ...

LeccoMilano

Milan, Italy

LeccoMilano sits on Via Lecco, the short street in Porta Venezia that Milan treats as its gay street. It opened in 2014 and took over the space next d ...

Bar GINGER

Prague, Czech Republic

Bar GINGER is a cocktail bar on Francouzská in Vinohrady, run by the same company as The Saints a few streets away. It is the more polished of the two ...

MONO Bar Milano

Milan, Italy

MONO opened in 2007 and was the first queer bar on Via Lecco, which is how Porta Venezia ended up with a gay street at all. It sits on the corner with ...

Kraftwerk

Munich, Germany

Kraftwerk is the large corner café-bar where Müllerstraße meets Thalkirchner Straße, which puts it at the entrance to the gay quarter and makes it the ...

Drei Glöcklein

Munich, Germany

The Drei Glöcklein has been on Hans-Sachs-Straße since 1972 and is one of the smallest gay venues in Munich. From outside there is nothing to mark it ...

Mardi Gras Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Mardi Gras is a cocktail bar on the ground floor of the Yumbo Centrum, refurbished in recent years and reopened with a changed concept. It is one of t ...

Club U Rudolfa

Prague, Czech Republic

U Rudolfa is a basement pub on Mezibranská, a short walk from the National Museum, and it bills itself as the oldest gay beer pub in Prague. It has ke ...

Klub 21

Prague, Czech Republic

Klub 21 is a cellar bar on Římská in Vinohrady, in the middle of Prague's gay quarter. It calls itself the oldest bar in the country still trading at ...

Drake's Club

Prague, Czech Republic

Drake's opened in 1993 on Zborovská in Smíchov and is the longest-running gay sex club in Prague. It stays open around the clock. The club runs ove ...

The Saints Bar

Prague, Czech Republic

The Saints is a small basement bar on Polská in Vinohrady, a few minutes from náměstí Míru and a long-standing fixture of Prague's gay quarter. It has ...

Factory Club

Prague, Czech Republic

Factory Club is a gay cruise and fetish club on Vinohradská, laid out over three floors and around 400 square metres of an old industrial building. Th ...

CAMP

Munich, Germany

CAMP is a men-only cruise bar on a quiet side street just south of Müllerstraße, a minute from the main run of gay bars. It was the first place in Mun ...

Edelheiss

Munich, Germany

Edelheiss is a small neighbourhood gay bar in the Glockenbachviertel, five tables and a few stools, with half-timbered walls, a wooden counter and a l ...

Club Garage

Prague, Czech Republic

Club Garage is a cruising and fetish bar on Balbínova in Vinohrady, for men over 18. It runs over two levels a few minutes from the museum end of Wenc ...

Café Bar Flirt

Prague, Czech Republic

Café Bar Flirt takes up two levels of a historic vaulted cellar on Martinská in the Old Town, a few minutes from both Můstek and Národní třída. Upstai ...

Bar Rendezvous

Munich, Germany

A small, unpretentious gay bar on Müllerstraße, a short walk from Sendlinger Tor. Cheap drinks, a disco ball, and Schlager and euro-pop loud enough to ...

The Corner Cocktail Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

The Corner is one of the newer bars in the Yumbo Centrum, on the ground floor at local 131-16 facing the central plaza. It is styled more formally tha ...

Spartacus

Maspalomas, Spain

Spartacus is one of the oldest gay bars in the Yumbo Centrum, on the ground floor next door to WunderBar, and it has been running for over twenty year ...

Pirates Terrace Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Pirates is a small terrace bar on the ground floor of the Yumbo Centrum, facing the square. Cocktails and cold drinks, no shows and no dance floor. ...

Tom's Saloon

Hamburg, Germany

Tom's is a gay cruise and leather bar in a cellar on the Pulverteich in St. Georg, going since 1974 and named after the artist Tom of Finland, whose w ...

Thor's Hammer

Bucharest, Romania

Thor's Hammer is a long-running gay bar just off the Old Town of Bucharest, by Piața Walter Mărăcineanu. It opened in 2017 and now trades as Fusion Ba ...

Why Not Cafe & Bar

Budapest, Hungary

Why Not is a cafe and bar on the Pest embankment at Belgrad rakpart, with a terrace looking across the Danube to Gellert Hill and the Liberty Bridge. ...

The Factory

Maspalomas, Spain

The Factory calls itself the largest cruising bar in Gran Canaria. It is men only and sits away from the Yumbo Centrum, behind the Spar in the passage ...

Sparkles Show Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Sparkles is a drag show bar on the second floor of the Yumbo Centrum with a resident cast rather than rotating guest acts, which is unusual in the cen ...

The Cube

Hamburg, Germany

The Cube is a gay café bar on the Lange Reihe in St. Georg, a relaxed, funky room that sits among the older names on the strip. It works as a café and ...

Ricky's Cabaret Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Ricky's has been running drag shows on the ground floor of the Yumbo Centrum since 2002, which makes it the longest-standing cabaret bar in the centre ...

S.L.U.T. Club

Hamburg, Germany

SlutClub has been part of St. Georg since 2004 and is the largest gay fetish club in Hamburg. Its name is known well beyond the city. The layout pu ...

Parrots Pub Gran Canaria

Maspalomas, Spain

Parrots Pub is the Gran Canaria outpost of the bar of the same name in Sitges, on the ground floor of the Yumbo Centrum. The room is fitted out in a m ...

Pulverfass Cabaret

Hamburg, Germany

The Pulverfass is a travesty cabaret on the Reeperbahn, going since 1973 and billing itself as Europe's largest travesty theatre. Since 2001 it has ru ...

Piccadilly Bar

Hamburg, Germany

The Piccadilly is Hamburg's oldest gay bar, open on the Silbersacktwiete off the Reeperbahn since 1958, and still one of the most honest little rooms ...

La Pose

Warsaw, Poland

La Pose sits on Mazowiecka in central Warsaw, a few minutes from Nowy Świat and the metro. It works as a brasserie and restaurant by day and a queer c ...

Junior

Maspalomas, Spain

Junior is a cocktail bar on the ground floor of the Yumbo Centrum, in the middle of the Six Pack corner. It works with proper spirits rather than the ...

Buddies Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Buddies is a bar and grill on the ground floor of the Yumbo Centrum, at local 131-12/13, and one of the longest-running places in the centre. Unlike m ...

Bar Kunterbunt

Hamburg, Germany

Bar Kunterbunt is a small gay bar in the basement of the Bremer Reihe in St. Georg, and true to the name the fit-out is as colourful as the crowd. It ...

Na Und

Maspalomas, Spain

Na Und has been in the Yumbo Centrum for over three decades and takes up four units on the first floor, which makes it one of the largest single venue ...

Macho Macho bei Andre

Maspalomas, Spain

Macho Macho is a Dutch bar on the second floor of the Yumbo Centrum, at local 261-19. The music is Dutch and German Schlager, which sets it apart from ...

Hummel Hummel Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Hummel Hummel is one of the oldest exclusively gay bars in the Yumbo Centrum; by the centre's own account it was the second of its kind to open there. ...

Eden Coffee Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Eden opened in the Yumbo Centrum in 2003 and moved to a larger space inside the centre in the summer of 2014. It is a French-run bar on the ground flo ...

Fiction Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Fiction is a cocktail bar on the ground floor of the Yumbo Centrum with one of the largest terraces on the plaza, which is the reason to go: it faces ...

Coco Loco

Maspalomas, Spain

Coco Loco is a late-night music bar in the Yumbo Centrum, next door to Terry Show. It runs themed music hours, with 80s and 90s blocks, drag entertain ...

Cruise Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Cruise Bar opened in 1994 and was the first bear and leather venue in the Canary Islands. It is on the second floor of the Yumbo Centrum and splits be ...

Chez Funny Boys

Maspalomas, Spain

Chez Funny Boys is a drag show bar on the second floor of the Yumbo Centrum. The shows lean hard on audience participation, so it is not a venue for s ...

Centre Stage

Maspalomas, Spain

Centre Stage is the musicals bar in the Yumbo Centrum. Show tunes, party music and sing-alongs, with video screens and nightly entertainment, in a roo ...

Blue Havana Lounge Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Blue Havana is a Cuban-themed cocktail lounge on the ground floor of the Yumbo Centrum. The drinks list runs to cocktails, smoothies, gin tonics and c ...

Adonis Bar

Maspalomas, Spain

Adonis is a bar and cafe on the ground floor of the Yumbo Centrum, running since October 1996. It is one of the German-leaning places in the centre, w ...

Bärenhöhle

Maspalomas, Spain

Bärenhöhle is the bear bar of the Yumbo Centrum and the longest-running one on the island. The name is German for bear's den, and the room is decorate ...

Pick Up Gay Bar

Hamburg, Germany

Pick Up is a small gay bar tucked on the Zimmerpforte in St. Georg, about five minutes on foot from the Hauptbahnhof. It is a glittery, low-key corner ...

Gran Cafe Latino

Maspalomas, Spain

Gran Cafe Latino is the Latin music bar on the ground floor of the Yumbo Centrum, on the corner known as the Six Pack where several of the busiest ter ...

Olivia Jones Bar

Hamburg, Germany

The Olivia Jones Bar sits on the Große Freiheit off the Reeperbahn, part of the little cluster of venues run under the name of Germany's best known dr ...

WunderBar

Hamburg, Germany

The WunderBar has been on the Talstraße just off the Reeperbahn since 1991 and is one of the loudest, most colourful gay bars on the Kiez. It calls it ...

Lodi Dodi

Warsaw, Poland

Lodi Dodi is a small gay cocktail bar in central Warsaw, on Wilcza just off the main shopping streets. It runs across three levels, with a mezzanine a ...

Instytut Bar

Warsaw, Poland

Instytut is a gay cruise bar in the centre of Warsaw, on Prosta near Rondo ONZ and a short walk from the central station. It runs over two floors, wit ...

M&V Bar

Hamburg, Germany

The M&V Bar has been on the Lange Reihe near the Hauptbahnhof since 1953, which makes it one of the oldest bars in St. Georg. Over the decades it turn ...

Kyti Voo

Hamburg, Germany

Kyti Voo is a craft beer and cocktail bar in the middle of the Lange Reihe in St. Georg, with a large street terrace that fills up as soon as it gets ...

Gaybar Extratour

Hamburg, Germany

The Extratour is a small gay corner pub on the Zimmerpforte in St. Georg, going since 1989. It is a simple, smoky Eckkneipe with a crowd of regulars a ...

Daniel's Company

Hamburg, Germany

Daniel's Company is a gay bar on the Kreuzweg in St. Georg, a short walk from the Hauptbahnhof, and one of the older addresses in Hamburg's scene. The ...

Daddys Bar

Hamburg, Germany

Daddys Bar is a Kiez bar on the Talstraße in St. Pauli, a dark, moody room with rough stone walls, leather booths and a neon sign over the bar. It is ...

Bellini Bar

Hamburg, Germany

The Bellini Bar opened in 2002 on the Danziger Straße, just off the Lange Reihe, and has become a fixture of the St. Georg scene. It runs on an Italia ...

Bar Eldorado

Hamburg, Germany

Bar Eldorado is a small queer music bar in a basement on the Wohlwillstraße in the Schanze end of St. Pauli, halfway between the Schanze and the Kiez. ...

The Duke of Wellington

London, United Kingdom

The Duke of Wellington sits on the corner of Wardour Street and Winnett Street, a dark green Victorian pub with the awnings out and a crowd on the pav ...

The White Swan

London, United Kingdom

The White Swan has been a gay venue on Commercial Road for more than forty years, which makes it one of the longest-running in London and by some dist ...

The William Morris Bar

London, United Kingdom

The William Morris Bar is a neighbourhood gay pub on Forest Road in Walthamstow, named after the designer who grew up in the area. It is a long way ou ...

The Divine

London, United Kingdom

The Divine opened in Dalston in February 2024, days after The Glory closed on Kingsland Road, and it is run by the same three people. The building was ...

The Two Brewers

London, United Kingdom

The Two Brewers has been a gay venue on Clapham High Street since 1981, and it is built around drag cabaret. There are shows every night of the year, ...

Menuda Lagarta Plaza

Alicante, Spain

Menuda Lagarta Plaza is the terrace half of a two-venue LGBTIQ+ operation in Alicante's old town. It sits on Plaza San Cristobal, a small square in El ...

The Yard Bar Soho

London, United Kingdom

The Yard sits back from Rupert Street down a short passage, which gives it the one thing almost no other Soho bar has: an open courtyard. It is heated ...

Spirit Bar Benidorm

Benidorm, Spain

Spirit Bar is on Calle 4 Cantones, the short street that links the two gay strips of Benidorm's old town, Carrer de Santa Fac and Carrer d'Alacant. It ...

La Casa delle Follie

Alicante, Spain

La Casa delle Follie is a drag and transformista show venue on Avenida Doctor Ramon y Cajal in central Alicante. It works as a theatre-bar: seated aud ...

Haddock Bar

Santander, Spain

Haddock Bar is a pub on Calle de Valliciergo, in the Tetuán quarter east of the centre. It won the Premio Aleguita in 2025, the annual award of the Ca ...

Covers

Santander, Spain

Covers is a bar on Calle del Río de la Pila, the street that carries most of Santander's late drinking. Alega's scene guide points it out by the Rolli ...

The Black Cap

London, United Kingdom

The Black Cap reopened on 21 March 2026, eleven years after it was shut and boarded up. It is one of the oldest pubs in Camden and had been running dr ...

Kurioos

Koblenz, Germany

Kurioos is a bar and lounge in the Koblenz old town, on Altenhof just off the Altstadt's pedestrian streets. It is the city's only dedicated queer pub ...

Village Soho

London, United Kingdom

Village opened on Wardour Street in 1991 and claims to have been the first bar of its kind in London, built as a gay bar rather than converted into on ...

Village Bar

Vienna, Austria

Village Bar is a small gay bar in a side street off the Gumpendorfer Strasse, a few minutes from both the Naschmarkt and Mariahilfer Strasse. One long ...

Villa Vida Cafe

Vienna, Austria

Villa Vida is the cafe, bar and restaurant on the ground floor of the Tuerkis Rosa Lila Villa, the queer house on the Linke Wienzeile that has served ...

Le Raidd

Paris, France

Le Raidd is a bar on rue du Temple in the Marais, a short walk from Hotel de Ville and the Pompidou. It has been open since 2003 and the thing it is k ...

Roses

Berlin, Germany

Roses is a small gay and lesbian bar on Oranienstr. in Kreuzberg, next door to the club SO36. It is known for its interior: pink fur on the walls, fla ...

Skyline Club Roma

Rome, Italy

Skyline is a cruising and fetish club in San Giovanni, near the metro of the same name and a short walk from Adam Sauna. It also goes by the name Blac ...

Rupert Street Bar

London, United Kingdom

Rupert Street Bar is one of the longer-running gay bars in Soho, on the corner opposite the Yard's passage. It is glass-fronted along two sides, which ...

Royal Vauxhall Tavern

London, United Kingdom

The Royal Vauxhall Tavern stands on its own at the corner of Kennington Lane and Goding Street, a free-standing Victorian pub left behind by the redev ...

Lab.oratory

Berlin, Germany

Lab.oratory is a men-only fetish and cruising club in the basement of the Berghain building, the former power station in Friedrichshain. The entrance ...

L'Etoile Opera

Lyon, France

L'Etoile Opera is a gay bar near the opera house in Lyon's first arrondissement, a short walk from Place des Terreaux. It has a lounge inside and a te ...

Achterspannerhof

Kobern-Gondorf, Germany

The Achterspannerhof is a private club for gay and bisexual men on a farm in the countryside west of Koblenz, on the road between Polch and Wolken. It ...

LL Show Bar

Madrid, Spain

LL Show Bar sits on Calle Pelayo, one street back from Plaza de Chueca, and has been putting on drag shows every night for close to three decades. ...

Ku Bar

London, United Kingdom

Ku Bar is on Lisle Street on the edge of Chinatown, a short walk from Leicester Square, and runs across three levels. The ground floor is the main bar ...

Puzzles - Pub Night Café

Trier, Germany

Puzzles is a queer bar in Trier-Süd, in the Nikolausstraße a few streets back from the Mosel. It calls itself a pub and night café and works as both: ...

Punto BCN

Barcelona, Spain

Punto BCN is a bar in the Gaixample, the few blocks of the Eixample where most of Barcelona's gay venues sit. It is run by Grupo Arena, the company be ...

Prinzknecht

Berlin, Germany

Prinzknecht has been on Fuggerstr. in Schoeneberg since 1999 and describes itself as a Maennerkneipe, a men's pub. The room is long, with a big bar do ...

Parrots Pub

Sitges, Spain

Parrots sits on the corner where Placa de la Industria meets Carrer de Joan Tarrida, which puts it at the exact point the Sitges gay scene starts. The ...

Moebel-Olfe

Berlin, Germany

Moebel-Olfe is a queer bar at Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg, in a former furniture shop whose name it kept. The entrance is easy to miss: it is in the p ...

Kuma Bar Benidorm

Benidorm, Spain

Kuma is a bar and cruise club at the northern end of Carrer de Santa Fac, the main street of Benidorm's old town gay village. It is the largest cruise ...

Heile Welt

Berlin, Germany

Heile Welt is a bar and lounge on Motzstr. in Schoeneberg, at the Nollendorfplatz end of the gay strip. It is the calmer option on a street otherwise ...

Halfway to Heaven

London, United Kingdom

Halfway to Heaven has been a gay pub since 1991, tucked beside St Martin-in-the-Fields just off Trafalgar Square. The name is geography: it sits rough ...

Habroló

Budapest, Hungary

Habroló is a small gay bar in District VII, near the corner of Dohány and Síp utca, a few minutes from Astoria metro. Karaoke is what it is known f ...

Freedom Bar Soho

London, United Kingdom

Freedom is a cocktail bar on Wardour Street with a club room in the basement, and it is the most polished-looking venue on the Soho scene. The ground ...

Queergarten Trier

Trier, Germany

The Queergarten is the open-air queer beer garden of SCHMIT-Z e.V., set in the Palastgarten between the old town and the Roman baths. It runs as a sum ...

Dalston Superstore

London, United Kingdom

Dalston Superstore is on Kingsland High Street and works as a cafe and bar at street level with a club in the basement. It opened in 2009 and is one o ...

Cafe Savoy

Vienna, Austria

Cafe Savoy has stood on the Linke Wienzeile since 1897, opposite the Naschmarkt, and the room still looks the part. High ceilings, dark wood, brass, a ...

Admiral Duncan

London, United Kingdom

The Admiral Duncan is a narrow blue-fronted pub on Old Compton Street. There has been a pub on the site since at least 1832, and it is one of the olde ...

Hafen

Berlin, Germany

Hafen is a gay bar on Motzstr. in Schoeneberg, a few steps from Nollendorfplatz and directly opposite the row of bars that has defined this corner of ...

Freedj

Paris, France

Freedj is a bar and club on two levels on rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie. The ground floor is a bar. The basement is a small club with its own boo ...

Comptons of Soho

London, United Kingdom

Comptons has traded as a gay pub on Old Compton Street since 1986 and calls itself the Grande Dame of the street. It is a pub before it is anything el ...

Circa Soho

London, United Kingdom

Circa opened on Frith Street in 2011 and sits at the quieter end of Soho's gay village, a couple of doors from Bar Italia. The frontage is glass with ...

My Bar

Rome, Italy

My Bar is the second of the two bars on Rome's Gay Street, immediately next to Coming Out and sharing the same stretch of pavement seating. It works a ...

Escape Bar Benidorm

Benidorm, Spain

Escape Bar is a music bar on Carrer d'Alacant, one of the two streets that carry Benidorm's old town gay village. It changed hands in April 2024 and t ...

Eagle Vienna

Vienna, Austria

Eagle Vienna is a leather and jeans bar in a cellar off the Gumpendorfer Strasse and one of the oldest of its kind in Austria. The walls are covered i ...

El Horno

Sitges, Spain

El Horno is one of the oldest gay bars in Sitges and one of the few that stays open through the winter rather than shutting when the season ends. It i ...

Divina Pub

Alicante, Spain

Divina is a small gay pub in Alicante's old town, on Calle Montengon. It opened in 1998 and belongs to the cluster of bars in El Barrio that fill up a ...

Dark Leather & Bear Bar

Alicante, Spain

Dark is Alicante's cruise bar, on Avenida Ramon y Cajal opposite the Parque de Canalejas. It is aimed at the bear and leather crowd, and the regulars ...

Man Bar Sitges

Sitges, Spain

Man Bar is a cruise bar on Joan Tarrida with a terrace out front and a darkroom and play zone at the back. The interior is done in industrial style, c ...

Cox

Paris, France

Cox is a bar on rue des Archives, the street that carries most of the gay nightlife in the Marais. The room is small, so the crowd spills out onto the ...

Copper Private Club

Benidorm, Spain

Copper was the first fetish cruising club to open in Benidorm. It is on Carrer de la Palma, a couple of streets from the main strips of the old town g ...

Company Club Roma

Rome, Italy

Company is Rome's bear club, on Piazza Manfredo Fanti a few minutes from Termini station. It opened in 2014 as the Roman branch of the Milan club of t ...

Coming Out

Rome, Italy

Coming Out sits on Via di San Giovanni in Laterano, the street Romans call Gay Street, a few steps from the Colosseum. It has been open since 2001 and ...

CC Blooms

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

CC Blooms has been on Greenside Place since 1994 and is the oldest gay venue still running in the city. It works as two things at once: a bar and rest ...

Canibal Pub

Alicante, Spain

Canibal Pub sits on the Explanada de Espana, the palm-lined promenade running along Alicante's port. It has been part of the city's gay scene since 19 ...

Cafe Rifugio

Vienna, Austria

Cafe Rifugio is a small gay day bar on the Schoenbrunner Strasse in the fifth district, a short walk from the Naschmarkt end of the scene. It runs ...

Brief Encounter Benidorm

Benidorm, Spain

Brief Encounter is a small bar on Carrer de Santa Fac in Benidorm's old town gay village. It has been part of the scene here for years and also trades ...

Black & White

Madrid, Spain

Black & White has been open on Calle de la Libertad since 1984, which makes it the oldest gay bar still trading in Chueca. It came through the neighbo ...

Bears Bar Sitges

Sitges, Spain

Bears Bar is the bear meeting point in Sitges, on the stretch of Carrer Bonaire that people call Bear Street. The crowd is bears, cubs, chubs, daddies ...

Bears Bar

Madrid, Spain

Bears Bar is the anchor of Madrid's bear scene, a few doors from Chueca metro on Calle Pelayo. The crowd is bears, cubs, chubs, older men and the peop ...

Bear's Bar Benidorm

Benidorm, Spain

Bear's Bar has been on Carrer de la Santa Faç for more than twenty years and marked its twentieth anniversary in 2024. It is the leather and fetish ad ...

Bar Comodin

Sitges, Spain

Comodin has been trading on Carrer d'en Taco since 1955, which makes it the oldest venue in the Sitges gay quarter by a long way. It works as a cabare ...

Purex Clube

Lisbon, Portugal

Purex is a queer bar and club on Rua das Salgadeiras in Bairro Alto. It has been a fixture of the city's alternative queer scene for years and pulls a ...

Woof X

Lisbon, Portugal

Woof X is a small cruise and fetish bar on Rua Manuel Bernardes in Merces. The door stays shut and you ring the bell to be let in. Inside there is ...

Shelter Bar

Lisbon, Portugal

Shelter Bar is a bear bar on Rua da Palmeira in Principe Real, on the same short street as Finalmente Club. It calls itself a cosy and friendly bear b ...

Finalmente Club

Lisbon, Portugal

Finalmente Club opened in the 1970s on Rua da Palmeira in Principe Real and has been putting on drag shows ever since. It works as a cafe concert duri ...

Construction Lisbon Club

Lisbon, Portugal

Construction opened in 2012 on Rua Cecilio de Sousa, in the space that used to hold Bric-a-Bar, one of the oldest gay venues in the city. The club ...

Bar TR3S Lisboa

Lisbon, Portugal

TR3S has been on Rua Ruben A. Leitao since 2010 and is bear owned and run. Bear World Magazine placed it among its ten best bear bars in the world. ...

Bar 106

Lisbon, Portugal

Bar 106 opened in 1990 on Rua de Sao Marcal in Principe Real and has stayed with the same owners since. It is one of the oldest gay bars still running ...

XS Bar

Lyon, France

XS Bar is a small gay bar on the Presqu'ile, the peninsula between the Rhone and the Saone where most of Lyon's queer nightlife sits. It opened in 201 ...

It Bar

Lyon, France

It Bar is a late-night gay bar on the slopes of the Croix-Rousse, uphill from the Terreaux quarter. It opened in December 2011 and is one of the few g ...

Broc Bar

Lyon, France

Broc Bar is a neighbourhood bistro on Rue Lanterne in the Terreaux quarter that has been part of Lyon's gay scene since 2005. The Lyon Tourist Office ...

The Street

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The Street stands where Broughton Street meets Picardy Place and has been open since 2004. Bar and kitchen run at street level, with a club in the bas ...

The Regent

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The Regent is a real ale pub on Montrose Terrace, east of the centre and away from the Pink Triangle. It calls itself an LGBT+ and straight-friendly p ...

einraum 2.0

Saarbrücken, Germany

einraum 2.0 is the last gay bar left in Saarbrücken. The name is literal: the place is one room, with a window front onto Mainzer Straße, a few seatin ...

Planet

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Planet is on Baxter's Place, next door to CC Blooms and a minute from the top of Leith Street. The bar calls itself the longest running gay bar in Edi ...

Mexxx Gaybar

Salzburg, Austria

Mexxx is a gay bar and small disco in the Andraeviertel, at the end of Linzergasse where it turns into Schallmooser Hauptstrasse. It is one of three g ...

Dark Eagle

Salzburg, Austria

The Dark Eagle is Salzburg's cruising bar, on Paracelsusstrasse in the Andraeviertel. It works as two separate things on two floors. The ground floor ...