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Sircuit

2 reviews

103-105 Smith St

Sircuit is the biggest and longest-running queer venue in Fitzroy, a beloved gay bar and club right on the buzzing Smith Street gayborhood strip, a short 86 tram ride from the CBD. Predominantly a gay men’s bar but genuinely inclusive, it’s a fun,...

2 reviews

16 Flinders St

ARQ is one of Sydney’s most iconic nightlife venues, a purpose-built club on Flinders Street just off Oxford Street in Darlinghurst that has been a pillar of the city’s queer nightlife and cultural landscape for over two decades. Now reopened unde...

1 review

46 Peel St

The Peel is one of the most iconic and longest-running gay clubs in Melbourne, a Collingwood institution that’s been the beating heart of the city’s Northside queer nightlife since 1990. Famous well beyond Australia, it made legal history when its...

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1 review

5 Synagogue Pl

Mary’s Poppin is Adelaide’s headline queer venue, a queer-owned bar and nightclub that has been the city’s go-to LGBTQ+ party spot since opening in April 2016. Climb the stairs, and you’ll find a neon-lit, over-the-top room of mirrored walls and c...

Red Rattler Theatre

Red Rattler Theatre

1 review

6 Faversham St

 The Red Rattler, affectionately known as ”The Rat,” is one of Sydney’s most beloved queer cultural spaces: a community-owned, not-for-profit warehouse theater in Marrickville, founded in 2009 by five local queer artists who wanted a legal, l...

Stonewall Newtown

Stonewall Newtown

1 review

157 King Street

Stonewall Newtown is the Inner West revival of Sydney’s iconic Stonewall brand, opened in 2026 on King Street after the original Oxford Street hotel closed its doors. Carrying forward nearly three decades of legacy, it brings the same energetic mi...

Sunday Bears (Town Hall Hotel)

Sunday Bears (Town Hall Hotel)

1 review

326 King Street

Sunday Bears is Harbour City Bears’ relaxed weekly afternoon social, the laid-back Newtown counterpart to their Friday night. Held every Sunday from 4 pm at the Town Hall Hotel on King Street, it draws a friendly crowd of hairy gay men, their admi...

The Imperial Hotel

The Imperial Hotel

1 review

35 Erskineville Road

The Imperial is one of Sydney’s most iconic LGBTQ+ venues, an Erskineville institution that’s been the beating heart of the Inner West’s queer scene since 1983 and is now listed on the NSW State Heritage Register. World-famous as the pub from The ...

The Newtown Hotel

The Newtown Hotel

1 review

174 King St

The Newtown Hotel is one of the Inner West’s most iconic pubs, a King Street landmark serving the community since 1887 and long one of Sydney’s most famous gay venues. After a period as a broadly queer-friendly pub, it was bought in 2025 by longti...

1 review

97B Smith St

UBQ, short for UBQueer, is one of Melbourne’s favorite LGBTQIA+ venues, an owner-run queer bar and event space in the heart of Fitzroy’s Smith Street strip, the city’s buzziest gay nightlife precinct. Founded by Nick Ribbon to recreate the kind of...

1 review

383 Bourke St

Kinselas is a Taylor Square icon, a striking Art Deco landmark in the heart of Sydney’s Oxford Street gay village that was a funeral parlor (the headquarters of undertaker Charles Kinsela) from the 1930s until 1982, before its second life as a bel...

Marlbourough Hotel (Marly Bar)

Marlbourough Hotel (Marly Bar)

1 review

145 King St

The Marlborough Hotel, universally known as ”The Marly,” is a Newtown institution that’s been watering the Inner West since 1860, a big, characterful pub that’s all things to all people: a sun-drenched beer garden, a retro upstairs bar, live music...

1 review

149 Gipps St, , Australia

The Laird is a genuine Melbourne institution, Australia’s longest-running gay-owned and operated bar and accommodation, welcoming men since 1980. Housed in a handsome late-19th-century hotel in Abbotsford, near Collingwood station, it holds a rare...

Universal Sydney

Universal Sydney

1 review

85-91 Oxford St

Universal is one of Oxford Street’s most storied LGBTQ+ nightclubs, a multi-level dance venue that, for nearly four decades, was The Midnight Shift, Sydney’s legendary gay club that opened as a men’s disco in 1980 and became a hub of queer life, d...

116a Hindley Street

Ancient World is Adelaide’s hidden queer-friendly basement, tucked down an alley off Hindley Street next to an adult store and easy to walk past. It began as a pop-up for the 2014 Adelaide Fringe and grew into an artist-run, multi-purpose space kn...

386 Chapel St

Poof Doof is Australia’s biggest and best-loved gay party brand, and its Melbourne edition serves the city’s biggest queer Saturday night, running weekly at Chasers Nightclub on Chapel Street in South Yarra. Built from the ground up around a love ...

Pride of our Footscray

Pride of our Footscray

Level 1/86-88 Hopkins St

Pride of our Footscray, affectionately POOFS, is one of Melbourne’s most heartwarming queer venues: a community-owned, not-for-profit bar, nightclub and performance space in the multicultural inner west that’s collectively owned by around 200 part...

Sundaylicious is one of Melbourne’s longest-running and best-loved queer events—an iconic LGBTQIA+ Sunday session that’s been bringing bright, bustling, energetic parties to the city’s rainbow community for well over a decade. LGBTIQ-owned and ope...

29 Fitzroy Street

The Prince Public Bar is one of Melbourne’s oldest gay-friendly pubs, a St Kilda institution steeped in local history; in fact, the smaller bar of the grand Art Deco Prince of Wales Hotel was long Victoria’s oldest surviving gay bar. Freshly renov...

244–248 William Street (Kings Cross Hotel)

Furry Friday is Sydney’s weekly bear social, hosted by Harbour City Bears, the largest bear community group in the Southern Hemisphere. Held every Friday evening at the Kings Cross Hotel, it’s a warm, welcoming gathering for hairy gay men, their a...

Beresford Sundays

Beresford Sundays

1 review

354 Bourke Street (at Albion Street)

fun in the sun

324 King Street

Velvet Wednesday women’s party

Chinese Laundry

Chinese Laundry

111 Sussex Street

Chinese Laundry: an underground Sydney club reborn Hidden beneath the Slip Inn in Sydney’s city centre, Chinese Laundry is one of the most enduring names in the Australian electronic music scene. The legendary underground venue closed during ...

164 Church Street (angle Highett Street)

Pub, drag shows Sat, beer garden

Heaven Social Dance

Heaven Social Dance

166 Windsor Road (at Northmead Bowling Club)

bi-monthly drag shows, proceeds go to local charity organizations

101 Wheat Road

hosts Homesexual, www.homesexual.com.au

2 Oxford Street (dernier étage du Burdekin Hotel)

Lesbians meet there on Fridays

Manning Road (entre Fisher & Western, U of Sydney Union)

303 Marrickville Road (at Marrickville Townhall)

bi-monthly dance parties

3 Bridge Ln (derrière l'Establishment Hotel)

check locally for next DTPM gay party at this multi-award wining dance club on Sun nights

265 Oxford Street (at S Dowling)

pronounced “Bee-chum”

117-123 Oxford Street (at Crown Street)

trendy pub and cocktail bar, 2 levels, theme nights

134 Oxford Street (at Bourke Street, Taylor Square)

Right across from Taylor Square, on the legendary strip that’s been the beating heart of gay Sydney for over five decades, The Oxford Hotel stands as one of the city’s most iconic queer institutions. Opened as a gay venue back in 1982, it’s the ki...

The Palms On Oxford

The Palms On Oxford

124 Oxford Street (at Bourke Street, Taylor Square)

crowded late

The Polo Lounge/ Supper Club

The Polo Lounge/ Supper Club

134 Oxford Street

upscale lounge, jazz cabaret performances, burlesque

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