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Cabaret Mado

2 reviews

1115 rue Sainte-Catherine Est

Cabaret Mado: legendary drag shows in Montreal’s Gay Village Located at 1115 Sainte-Catherine Street East, in the heart of Montreal’s Gay Village, Cabaret Mado is one of the city’s best-known LGBTQ+ nightlife institutions. Opened in 2002 by l...

2 reviews

1812, rue Ste-Catherine Est

2 reviews

1272 rue Sainte-Catherine E

Bar Renard is a bar located in the heart of Montreal’s gay village, opposite Beaudry metro station. Open daily from 3pm to 3am, a little earlier even during summer, with a terrace on St. Catherine Street. People stop there to drink, eat, relax. ”T...

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1181 Davie St.

 1181 is one of Vancouver’s most stylish gay bars, a small-but-mighty cocktail lounge that stands out as a beacon of finesse in the heart of Davie Village, the city’s gayborhood. Where much of the strip runs to beer-stained pub charm, 1181 go...

Black Eagle Bar (Aigle Noir)

Black Eagle Bar (Aigle Noir)

1 review

1315 Sainte-Catherine Est (angle Visitation)

Gay bar with regular theme nights.

1 review

1474 rue Sainte-Catherine Est

3 levels, cabaret dance club Fri-Sat, T-dance Sun

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858 rue Sainte-Catherine Est (angle Saint-Andre)

After-hours, Friday to Sunday only.

1171 Sainte-Catherine (angle Montcalm)

For more than 20 years, Stock Bar is one of the main gay bars on Sainte Catherine Street, Montreal’s gay neighborhood. A place not to be missed!This 100% male strip club presents nude dancers live on stage, every night from 9pm. 60+ strippers undr...

553 Church St

Boutique Bar is back on Church Street, a beloved cocktail bar that was forced out of its original home in 2022 when the building was sold to developers, and returned two years later with a grand Halloween-night reopening at a new address just down...

Bovine Sex Club

Bovine Sex Club

542 Queen St W

The Bovine Sex Club, despite the name, isn’t a sex club at all; it’s one of Toronto’s most legendary rock ’n’ roll dive bars, a Queen West institution that’s anchored the city’s punk, metal, glam and alternative music scenes since 1991. Moody, art...

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

12 Alexander St

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a true landmark of queer culture, founded in 1979 and still the largest, longest-running queer theatre company in the world. Beyond staging edgy, provocative new Canadian works that aren’t for the faint of heart, it...

489c Church St

Bunker is the newest dance floor in gay Toronto, a basement club beneath the Church Street strip built around one thing above all: the sound. Fitted with a Funktion One system that you feel as much as hear, it’s quickly become a proper home base f...

508 Church St

Crews Tangos is Toronto’s number one drag bar, a Church-Wellesley Village institution housed in a pair of converted Victorian townhouses since opening in 1994. ”Two clubs for one,” it spans five bars and two distinct dance floors, each energized ...

600 Gerrard St E

Farside is a cute, laid-back queer-owned cocktail bar out in Toronto’s far east end, run by the same queen who used to helm Handlebar, so the pedigree for good music and easy charm runs deep. A smaller, more design-forward room than the Village’s ...

463 Church St

Flash on Church is two bars in one, right in the center of the Church-Wellesley Village gayborhood. On the ground floor, the main bar hosts a packed weekly calendar of events, drag shows, Latin Pop nights, drag bingo, and karaoke, while upstairs, ...

1042 Davfie Street

The only place where Karaoke night is every night. It’s a good place for a laid back crowd. Drink some beers around the pool table to mingle with the locals. 

Pegasus On Church

Pegasus On Church

489B Church St

Pegasus On Church is the Village’s beloved neighborhood bar, running since 1993 and one of the longest-standing gay bars in Church-Wellesley after Woody’s itself. A fully licensed two-floor space just south of Wellesley, it trades the big dance-fl...

Storm Crow Manor

Storm Crow Manor

580 Church St

Storm Crow Manor is Toronto’s self-proclaimed geekiest bar, a sprawling Church Street mansion packed with sci-fi and fantasy-themed rooms, secret doors, catacombs, a cyberpunk lounge, and even a glowing, tentacle-strewn cocktail list. It doesn’t i...

13 Ossington Ave

Sweaty Betty’s is an unpretentious, much-loved dive bar on the Ossington strip, an LGBTQIA+ fixture that’s been pouring strong drinks since 2004 in the heart of what was once Queen West’s gayborhood. True to its dive-bar roots, it’s all mismatched...

The Bishop and Belcher

The Bishop and Belcher

175 Bloor St. E

The Bishop and Belcher is a classy, old-school British-style pub at the corner of Church and Hayden, a Toronto institution since 1995 that spent years as a Queen West staple before settling into its current permanent home uptown. One reviewer sums...

459 Church St

The Drink is Church Street’s hidden second-floor gem, a social space that’s equal parts coffee shop, cocktail bar and drag venue, tucked above the bustle of the Village strip with a window overlooking the gay village below. By day, it’s all fabulo...

518a Church St

The Lodge is Toronto’s bear and otter headquarters, a warm, unpretentious bar tucked upstairs above the beloved O’Grady’s Restaurant, right in the heart of the Village. With wood-paneled decor that feels like a cabin retreat from the cold, a centr...

Three Dollar Bill

Three Dollar Bill

1592 Queen St W

Three Dollar Bill is Parkdale’s queer bar, a community room first and a party second, run by owners Castle, Maro and Meaghan, who are genuinely present on the floor every night. Named after the old phrase ”queer as a three dollar bill,” it’s one l...

505 Church St

Understory is a trans-owned and operated café in the heart of Toronto’s historic Church-Wellesley Village, built by partners Dani and Rowan as the cozy, quiet ”third space” the neighborhood had been missing since Glad Day Bookshop moved on. Named ...

Woody's / Sailor

Woody's / Sailor

465-467 Church Street

Woody’s is Toronto’s most famous gay bar, a landmark that’s anchored the heart of the Church-Wellesley Village since opening in June 1989. Connected inside to its equally beloved sister bar Sailor, together they form a massive, cavernous five-bar ...

2093 rue de la Visitation (angle Association Sportive)

Country music. Special events Sat, T-dance from 3:30pm Sun, also lessons

District Video Lounge

District Video Lounge

1365 Ste-Catherine Est

The District Video Lounge is a bar and restaurant located in the heart of the gay village of Montreal, at the Beaudry metro station, opposite the Oasis sauna. Open Wednesday to Sunday from 3pm to 3am. With your mobile phone, send your requests fro...

Foufounes Electriques

Foufounes Electriques

87 Sainte-Catherine Est (angle Saint-Laurent)

Patio

1111 rue Sainte-Catherine Est (angle Amherst)

nude dancers, ladies night Sun

1167 Davie St

PumpJack Pub is one of Vancouver’s best-known gay bars and a true institution of Davie Village, the LGBTQ+ heart of the city’s West End. Located at 1167 Davie Street, this lively community pub has been welcoming queer Vancouverites and visitors si...

1 review

4483 boulevard Saint-Laurent

DJs, bands, comedy; dance alternative outside the Gay Village; gay ‘Mec Plus Ultra’ party monthly

1171 rue Sainte-Catherine Est (angle Montcalm)

9pm-close Fri-Sat only, 3 floors and great rooftoop terrace, biggest gay club in Montreal

6744 rue Hutchison

Open from 9am to 5pm, closed on weekends, cakes, coffee and light mealsclsd wknds, cakes, coffee and light meals

1673 rue Sainte-Catherine Est (angle Papineau)

Bar Rocky, also known locally as Taverne Chez Rocky, is one of those increasingly rare gay bars that has kept its old-school neighborhood personality. Located on Sainte-Catherine Street East, toward the Papineau end of Montreal’s Gay Village, this...

445 Saint-Pierre (dans le vieux Montréal)

8am-4:30pm, clsd wknds, salads and soups

Circus After Hours

Circus After Hours

915 rue Sainte-Catherine Est

Thursday and Sunday from 2am, Friday and Saturday from 1am. 2am-8amTh Sun, 1am-10pm Fri-Sat

Cirque du Boudoir

Cirque du Boudoir

Différents lieux

opulent quarterly theme parties

Club Date Piano Bar

Club Date Piano Bar

1218 rue Sainte-Catherine Est (angle Beaudry)

Le Date Karaoke, formerly known as Club Date Piano Bar, is one of the great survivors of Montreal’s gay nightlife. Located at 1218 Sainte-Catherine Street East, just steps from Beaudry metro station, this proudly unpretentious institution has occu...

Faggity Ass Fridays

Faggity Ass Fridays

5656 Avenue du Parc (angle The Playhouse)

last Fri only, raucous dance party raises money for Head Hands, queer-positive sex ed organization

1151 rue Ontario Est (angle Wolfe)

Poker machines

1450 rue Sainte-Catherine Est (angle Plessis)

1309 rue Sainte-Catherine Est (angle Visitation)

Open to the street--as the name implies, a good place to relax and people-watch

815 rue Saint Augustin

1295 Amherst (angle Sainte-Catherine)

Terrace, one of Montréal’s oldest taverns, popular happy hour

783 Mont-Royal Est (angle Saint-Hubert)

Cupcake boutique

1680 rue Saint-Denis (angle Ontario)

3 floors, large terrace

308B 17th Avenue SW

Twisted Element

Twisted Element

1006 11th Aveneue SW

Closed

167 rue Bossé

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