The Eagle

While it isn't the original article—what is in this city?—the second iteration of The Eagle, New York's premiere leather bar, continues the tradition of having the hottest men, the greatest atmosphere, and the assless-est chaps. Perennial cruising underscores a calendar of themed...

Eastern Bloc

The Soviet Union lives on—or has been revived, at least—at the former Wonder Bar. A smallish temple of cameraderie, or should we say comrade-rie?

Metropolitan

It would figure that Williamsburg's premiere gay bar would have only a MySpace page as its website—ah, the ironic retro internet—and this award-winning gay and lesbian oriented bar is one of the most popular in the borough, even moreso during the warm weather months due to its am...

Phoenix

This incredibly swinging bar always has great beers on tap, songs on the jukebox, and hotties wandering around the pool table. Check it out!

Pieces

Over ten years in business, Pieces features individual performers, special events, Karaoke sing-a-longs, costume contests, pool tournaments, body contests, fund raising events, the almost world famous annual event "the 12 Drags of Christmas" and many more events.

Therapy Bar

A really luxe two-story bar with hip decor and tranquil blonde wood, lots of cuties from Midtown and beyond hang out here for happy hour, exciting therapeutic cocktails and the evening shows. Favorite cutie Scott Nevins hosts a variety of events, and beloved drag queen divas make...

Uncle Charlie's

Midtown's "only full-time gay bar" comes equipped with decor from the Forties, with a great selection of contemporary tunes playing over the sound system. But the real attraction of Uncle Charlie's, of course, is its piano-drive showtunes showcases, with a large perform...

Cubbyhole

Tremendously fun place in the West Village with hundreds of crazy props hanging from the ceiling. Aside from their city-wide renown for being both the best lesbian bar and the best neighborhood bar, they also offer the Sunday Drunch, which is billed as the "drunkest Sunday b...

The Boiler Room

The Boiler Room is as far removed thematically as it is geographically from the Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea gay scenes—what New York lovingly calls a "post-gay gay bar"—where orientation isn't a good enough basis for conversation and being the most over-the-top bottom wo...

The Cock

With The Urge out of business—the two used to sit in adjacent spaces—The Cock has risen to become the undisputed, filthiest temple of sleaze the East Village has to offer, featuring a variety of DJs blasting everything under the sun, sometimes projecting video over its small stag...

Bum Bum Bar

That would be the Latin pronunciation of "boom boom," by the way, which makes sense for this South American-styled gay bar in Woodside. Not that the pun isn't intentional: this predominantly butch-femme watering hole makes no bones about its mission statement and its cl...

Industry Bar

Probably Manhattan's most inclusive gay club, Industry is a bit of an anomaly in Midtown nightlife, that rare place you aim directly for instead of happen to end up at. The drinks are stiffly poured, the dudes range from tight shirts to plaid button-downs, and the ages span gener...

Ginger's

While the inside looks like your standard, gritty neighborhood dive—think a gentler Jackie's or a newer Olde Carriage Inn—this Sapphic counterpoint to the nearby Excelsior is one for the ladies and the ladies who love them. That's not to say that it is an exclusively lesbian haun...

Stairs Bar

Multi-level gay bar with three differently themed rooms, from a banquette-stuffed lounge for dining and mingling, a simple but elegant bar, and a third for dancing and cruising.

Stonewall Inn

Henrietta Hudson

Downtown's hands-down best lesbian bar, and a stunning dive bar to boot, with a rough interior and a lack of all possible pretense: this is a bar for drinking and getting drink in, for making friends and making out, for throwing whatever caution there is to the nearest wind.

Flaming Saddles Saloon

Country & Western-styled saloon for the gay and lesbian crowd in Hell's Kitchen.