La Station — Gare des Mines

La Station — Gare des Mines is one of Paris's most exciting independent nightlife spaces, a convivial, festive laboratory for emerging music and art built into the ruins of a disused coal-freight station on the northern edge of the city, where Paris meets Saint-Denis and Aubervilliers. Channeling the spirit of Berlin clubbing across a two-level club and big open-air spaces, it isn't a gay venue every night, but it's a beloved queer-friendly home base and the site of some of the city's biggest queer and LGBTQ+ parties, from La Culottée and Aïe des Mines to the Queer Palm pre-Cannes bash and Drag Race France viewing parties. Volunteer-run and mission-driven, with a firm safer-space charter and zero tolerance for oppressive or discriminatory behavior, it's where Paris's experimental and queer club scenes collide, so check the calendar for the next queer night.