Gay/Lesbian entertainment in USA
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Club Try-Angles
Salt Lake City has Utah’s only gay scene, however limited. Pick up the free Salt Lake Metro for listings. The town’s gay-ish neighborhood is 9th and 9th (900 South and 900 East). Play pool and drink beer at Club Try-Angles
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Golden Gopher
This campy lounge manages to draw drinkers from all stripes to its somewhat sketchy neighbourhood. The furnishings cover all bases too, with chandeliers and Ms Pac-Man. Those who haven't had enough at closing time can stock up for later at the in-house liquor store.
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Bottom Line Lounge
Just north of Winkler Rd, Bottom Line has a predominantly gay crowd, with a good mix of lesbians, but all are welcome. Bar-top dancers gyrate and drag queens come out nightly except on Saturdays and Mondays. On Thursdays you can drink $5 mason jars of Long Island iced tea. Yowza.
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Hapa's Night Club
If you're looking to hit the dance floor, Hapa's has the best scene on Maui. The place rocks on Monday to the guitar work of local legend Willie K; hosts the gay community on 'ultra fab' Tuesday; has a DJ on Wednesday; and comes up with anything from salsa to reggae on other nights.
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Chi Chiz
A small Christopher St favorite, especially for African-American gays, Chi Chiz offers the best drinking deal in the Village: everything half price from 14:00 until closing on Sundays. Monday its karaoke, Tuesday its bingo, and it's a favorite late-night munchie hangout any day of the week.
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Titan
This crazy place (look for it above Dakota Cowgirl Restaurant) hosts gay Family Feud, wildly popular among the Dupont set. State Department and World Bank types - officially Gays & Lesbians in Foreign Affairs - meet here for happy hour the third Thursday of every month. There are nightly happy hours.
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Frank’s Place
For a quarter-century, Frank’s has provided the area’s gay community with a comfortable place to eat, drink, play pool and sing karaoke. No matter what the evening’s entertainment may turn out to be, there’s never a cover charge. Its birdcage room is not something you see every day.
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Amsterdam
Say hello to the gargoyles at this fun, cool and friendly bar with its over-the-top medieval decor. It’s a big player with the gay scene, but everybody’s welcome to hang on the patio and sample the mind-boggling martini menu (300 last we checked). Check out ‘Martini & Manicure Monday.’
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The Bar
Mini-playground for the Castro's mixed young and restless, this bar walks the line between trashy and cool. Hanging from ceiling poles you'll find cocktail tables, not strippers; cheesy red padded walls oddly counter the screensaver-esque backdrop at the bar. But the flirts here are more interested in each other than the decor.
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Commercial Center
In the same strip mall as the Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada you’ll find a few neighborhood gay bars, such as Spotlight and Old West–style Badlands Saloon; a couple of bathhouses purporting to be gyms and spas; and The Rack shop.
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Double Play
While New Orleans is a pretty integrated city where gays and straights tend to mingle on a regular basis, there is a strong gay scene here, primarily centered on the French Quarter and Faubourg Marigny. As bad as behavior gets, Double Play is where every envelope in the post office gets pushed. Needs to be experienced to be believed.
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Starlight Bar & Lounge
A funky mix of Chelsea boys and East Village artistes cross paths in this pleasantly overcrowded bar, with room to relax in the back lounge. The all-female bartender crew work the crowd and Sunday night ('Starlette') is widely considered one of the best lesbian events in the city. Wednesday is queer comedy night, hosted by funny man Keith Price.
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The Transfer
Once seedier than the guy trying to sell late-night Muni transfers out front, this divey joint has gotten prettified in a smeared-lipstick Courtney Love way. Your Muni ticket will expire long before you figure out the various orientations of the crowd gyrating to rock-hip-hop mash-ups. On Mondays, that defunct ticket will get you any drink half price.
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The Café
The pool tables were just replaced because go-go dancers tore them to shreds - uh-huh, it's that kind of place, has been for decades. The eclectic mix sometimes lapses into interminable house numbers; grab a test-tube shot and pace yourself until the samba whistles kick in. Anyone in hot pants is welcome, though Fridays favor fellas and every third Saturday is an all-lesbian tea dance.
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$3 Bill Cafe
Squishy couches, strong coffee, free wireless and smiley staff invite you to join San Francisco history in progress: sparkle subversively with Radical Faeries; organize Green Party bake sales with moms' groups; and stitch and bitch with SF's sharpest knit wits. Don't be shy about stepping up and out on Queer Open Mike, the second and fourth Fridays of the month - you're among friends here.
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Circuit
The classiest of the Boystown nightclub mainstays has a lovely rooftop deck where a highly stylized, sexually mixed, though gay dominated crowd, wile away the summer evenings – the perfect perch to look down their noses at the mobs of shirtless, crotch-grabbing twinks at the club next door. Don’t leave without trying the fat-free alcoholic slushies or visiting the Star Trek room.
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Country Club
There's no golf course here. Down in the Bywater, this historic mansion has been converted into a gay frat house, replete with a large swimming pool in the back yard. It's a low-key hangout by day and more of a clubby scene by night. Clothing is not altogether forbidden on the patio, where guys and dolls tend to strip down and erase those tan lines. Indoors things are a bit more refined, with frequent shows.
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Underground Sf
Underground SF is made for being yourself (be it hippie-dyke, trannie, pretty boy or college kid) and letting said self go. Highly danceable sounds range from new wave to dark electro to drum 'n bass. The small dance floor can get overpacked, but no one'll push you out, and you can always escape to the smoking patio. In darker corners of the club things can get even steamier. Saturdays, the hottest boys in town head to its infamously messy dance party, Drunk & Horny.
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Good Friends Bar
A quintessential Quarter gay bar, where the scene can go from casual drink to debauchery unleashed at the drop of a hat. The crowd of regulars really are good friends, partly because the bar stools are so damn comfortable. Easy-on-the-eye bartenders make the bar's famous drink, the 'Separator' (Kahlúa ice cream, milk, brandy and coffee liqueur). The upstairs piano area, the 'Queen's Head Pub,' heats up with show tunes on Sunday night. The balcony is a good spot to chill.
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Gay Bars & Clubs
What Cherry Grove is to its neighbor the Fire Island Pines, Fort Lauderdale is to South Beach - a little more rainbow-flag-oriented and a little less exclusive. And for the hordes of gay boys who flock here, either to party or to settle down, therein lies the charm. You don't need to be A-list to feel at home at any of the many gay bars, clubs or restaurants, and you won't have any trouble finding 'the scene'.
Fort Lauderdale is home to more than 25 gay bars and clubs, about a dozen gay guesthouses, and a couple of way-gay residential hubs including Victoria Park, which is the established gay ghetto, and Wilton Manors, more recently gay-gentrified and boasting endless…
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