sydney gay bars, pubs & discos

 

Most of the bars listed are mixed gay/lesbian, but some are more gay or more lesbian oriented.

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Annie's Bar
Carrington Hotel, cnr Bourke St and Arthur St, Surry Hills

Just off the main drag, the intimate and cosy back bar is a popular little place with the trendy crowd. Also has drag shows most nights.
ARQ
16 Flinders St, Surry Hills

Phone: (02) 9380 - 8700
New late night dance venue bringing new interest to the Taylor Sq end of Oxford St. Both the downstairs Vortex Bar and the upstairs Wine Bar are popular. Open Tuesday - Saturday, downstairs from midday, upstairs from 5:00 PM. Check their
website for details of special functions and regular events.
Bank Hotel
342 King St, Newtown

Mostly women, but popular new venue for the area.
Bar Cleveland
Hershey Bar, cnr Bourke St and Cleveland St, Surry Hills
Phone: (02) 9698 - 1908
Younger dance crowd trying to escape the main bars.
Barracks Bar
1 Flinders St (behind Taylor Sq Hotel), Taylor Square
Popular leather/denim/bears bar, older crowd, mercifully "dance free" but cruisy and hot if you're into butch!
Beauchamp Hotel
267 Oxford St, Darlinghurst
Phone: (02) 9331 - 2575
Just across from the Albury, but gets a more general crowd - is a popular pub without the need to be trendy! Crowded on the weekends, particularly in the afternoons.
Beresford Hotel
354 Bourke St, Surry Hills
Friendly atmosphere, pool tables, beer garden, loud loud music, Always popular pub for "recovery" after main events or for late nights when you don't want to go home!
Caesaes Bar
Petersham Inn, 388 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
Away from the main drag, but has popular drag shows (and strippers!) weekends. Older crowd, some leather, friendly and relaxed place with nice beer garden.
Castaways
Parramatta Club, 37 Hunter St, Parramatta
Email:
castaways_c@hotmail.com
From 8:00 PM on the second and fourth Saturday of each month, the gay west comes alive from 8:00 PM with live entertainment.
DCM
33 Oxford St, Darlinghurst
Has been a late late dance club for as long as I can remember, and still packs them in, also has popular drag shows.
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Eden
88 Oxford St, Darlinghurst
Phone: (02) 8354 - 1711
Now gay owned and operated, 2 floors, has bar and nightclub downstairs, also has pool tables, Gaze club nights Saturdays, karaoke on Wednesday, 80's music Sundays, women's nite every second Sunday
Exchange Hotel
34 Oxford St, Darlinghurst
Phone: (02) 9331 - 1936
So many bars, so many hets, so much noise, so why do people bother! But Phoenix ("tribal dance music", dancing, downstairs Weekends) and Lizard Lounge (cocktails 7 days a week for those who can't be seen at Gilligans!) seem to get them in!
Flinders Hotel
63 Flinders St, Darlinghurst
Phone: (02) 9360 - 4929
Now more into dance, dance and dance, but in a relaxed way, and they still have the pool tables. Great DJs, great music, great shows, even has a small dancefloor! Packed till late.
Gilligans
134 Oxford St (upstairs at the Oxford Hotel)
Phone: (02) 9331 - 3467
The fashionable place to be seen sipping cocktails with the beautiful people while watching the swarming masses down in Taylor Square! Has Happy Hour from 5:00 - 7:00!
Green Park Hotel
360 Victoria St (cnr Liverpool St)
Still trying to be a straight pub, but hey! what can you do in this area!
Icebox
2 Kellet St. Kings Cross
S&M one day, lesbian the next - a versatile venue. Dance, dance, dance with the daring and the deviants or even the girl next door at the Milk Bar on Fridays and Saturdays!
Imperial Hotel
35 Erskineville Rd, Erskineville
Phone: (02) 9519 - 9899
From high drag to hot and sweaty, the Imperial has it all from pool and poker machines in the front bar, to cruising in the back, and dancing downstairs and drag shows, drag shows and drag shows! Open till late so gets the stayers!
Landsdowne Hotel
2-6 City Rd, Broadway
Popular Fridays and Saturday, mixed.
Leichhardt Hotel
126 Balmain Road, Leichhardt
Lesbian pub, friendly relaxed local atmosphere, has pool tables, beer garden and restaurant. Women's pool competition Thursdays.
Midnight Shift
85 Oxford St, Darlinghurst
The legend of Oxford St! Upstairs for serious dancing if you are young, cute and only dance with your shirt off - and if you can manage to get in - the queue is usually long! Downstairs for serious everything and no-one ever wants to go home - dancing, pool, videos, scene queens! THE place to go these days, but I can remember back fondly to when it was a nice quiet little bar downstairs for those who wanted to escape the noise!!
Newtown Hotel
174 King St, Newtown
Phone: (02) 9557 - 1329
In the heart of Sydney's "other" gay street, a great friendly pub with popular resident DJ, crowded dancefloor weekends, regular drag shows. Upstairs bar offers a quieter alternative and has a pool table. the restaurant out the back has a great selection of food and wine!
Oxford Hotel
134 Oxford St, Darlinghurst
Phone: (02) 9331 - 3467

Central location right on Taylor Square, the downstairs bar is trendy but not over-done, friendly and certainly cruisy. Popular DJs and all the current music.
Rainbow Room
1st Flr, 77 Oxford St, Darlinghurst
Phone: (02) 9754 - 1469

A friendly party club for lesbian and gay Asians and friends, have event every second Friday, 9:00PM till 4:00AM - admission $5. Is now officially a "Drag Free Zone" - come x-dressed and you get in free!
Stonewall Hotel
175 Oxford St, Darlinghurst
Phone: (02) 9360 - 1963
Dance the night away with the groovy crowd upstairs till late or relax downstairs in the pub.
Sublime
242 Pitt St, City
New mixed dance club.
Sydney Globe Hotel
cnr Elizabeth St and Park St, City
Cocktails in the heart of the city, mixed.
Taxi Club
40 Flinders Street, Darlinghurst
Another Sydney tradition that keeps mutating to keep up, the pokies and cheap drinks attract some of the more mixed elements of the crowd, but it is the tv/ts/tg/drags and their admirers that keep the place interesting - "
a place for those who dare to be different and walk on the wild side of life" according to one of the regulars!
Venus Room
2 Rosyln St, Kings Cross
Smaller more intimate nightclub with shows, shows and more shows, and in between dance, dance and more dance, open Thursday - Monday 8:00 PM - 6:00 AM
X-cite - Soho
171 Victoria St, Potts Point
Hot women's bar, busy weekends.

 

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