Arq
Darlinghurst
A great sound system and light shows have made Arq a standout disco club in town since 1999. The two-level club offers drag shows, special events and DJs spinning...
- LGBTQ
- Nightclub
Frankie's Pizza By the Slice
Central Business District
Frankie's is a pizza joint with craft beer, pinball and a rocking house band. Tuesdays it's rock 'n'roll karaoke, Thursdays it's bands and DJs, Fridays and Saturdays...
- LGBTQ-friendly
- Pub
The Scary Canary
Central Business District
Next to the Town Hall Station, the Scary Canary is a raucous favorite among young backpackers. Partying goes late with cheap drinks, pub grub, DJs and themed nights
- LGBTQ-friendly
- Nightclub
The Midnight Shift
Darlinghurst
The Midnight Shift on two levels has been in business since 1981, making it one of the oldest gay bars in town. A venue for Pride events, it has a ground-floor bar...
- LGBTQ
- Nightclub
Stonewall Hotel
Darlinghurst
The Stonewall Hotel is a bar with three levels and live entertainment seven nights a week into the wee hours. Open since 1997, it is a local institution, featuring...
- LGBTQ
- Bar
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Slyfox Hotel
Enmore
The old dive bar Slyfox has been relaunched as a late night music venue with a new front lounge, a dance floor and a Funktion-One sound system. The action includes...
- LGBTQ-friendly
- Nightclub
357 Sydney City Steam
Central Business District
With four floors and an elevator, 357 is the city's largest gay sauna with a busy lunchtime office crowd and round the clock on weekends. It has regular towel-free...
- For Men
- Sauna
Club Exile
Darlinghurst
Club Exile features top DJs playing progressive house, tribal beats and rhythmic sounds on the third Saturday of most months and sell-out holiday specials like New...
- For Men
- Party
Palms on Oxford
Darlinghurst
Gay-owned and -operated, the unpretentious Palms on Oxford plays classic gay dance anthems with music ranging from 70s disco to latest hits. Live DJs only on Fridays...
- LGBTQ
- Nightclub
The Beresford Hotel
Darlinghurst
Formerly a famous gay bar, the Beresford still attracts a gay crowd, particularly on Beresford Sundays, a drinking/dance party that really gets going after sundown....
- LGBTQ-friendly
- Pub
The Colombian Hotel
Darlinghurst
The Colombian Hotel, in a former bank building on Oxford Street, is a straight-friendly gay bar that almost never sleeps. It has big windows on the street level for...
- LGBTQ
- Bar
The Flinders Hotel
Darlinghurst
The Flinders Hotel's roots go back to 1916, but by the late 20th century the pub was a well-known LGBT hangout. After some ups and down, it was relaunched under new...
- LGBTQ
- Pub
The Imperial Hotel
Erskineville
The Imperial Hotel where the opening and closing scenes of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" were filmed, features drag, cabaret, acrobatics, dance,...
- LGBTQ
- Bar
The Oxford Hotel
Darlinghurst
Open more than 30 years, The Oxford is an iconic gay bar on four levels, beginning with the underground nightclub in the basement. The street level is an open space...
- LGBTQ
- Bar
Bank Hotel
New Town
The hip and artsy Bank serves hearty pub fare and craft beer in a leafy beer garden. Waywards on the second floor is a no-cover venue for live music and on...
- LGBTQ-friendly
- Pub
Bear Bar
Haymarket
Opened in 2017 in the basement of the Burdekin Hotel with a back entrance on Liverpool Street, Bear Bar is styled old school neighborhood bar and done up in handsome
- For Men
- Bar
Green Park Hotel
Darlinghurst
The Green Park, an Old School Aussie tiled bar, has been a popular watering hole since 1893. It has retro cocktails, a smoking courtyard with a vertical garden, a...
- LGBTQ-friendly
- Pub
Kinselas
Darlinghurst
On Taylor Square, the multi-level Kinselas was a funeral parlor from 1933 to 1982, run by an undertaker named Kinsela. After a spell as a restaurant, it morphed into...
- LGBTQ-friendly
- Nightclub
Slide Lounge
Darlinghurst
Depending on the night, The Slide Lounge transports its dinner guests to a circus, a risqué Parisian cabaret or a 1920s speakeasy. The El Circo dinner show on...
- LGBTQ-friendly
- Nightclub
The Baxter Inn
Central Business District
World-ranked Baxter Inn is an underground whiskey cellar entered from an alley, through an unmarked door and down a fire escape, It boasts the nation's largest...
- LGBTQ-friendly
- Bar
The Lobo Plantation
Central Business District
The Lobo Plantation, named after Julio Lobo who once was the most powerful sugar baron in the world, recreates a little bit of Old Cuba by offering over 250...
- LGBTQ-friendly
- Bar
The Ox
Darlinghurst
The hip Ox with its stylish marble bar, dramatic lighting and dance floor is a popular space for birthday parties and other special events, but back in the late 70s,
- LGBTQ-friendly
- Music Venue