Looking for queer havens for celebrating this Pride Month? We've rounded up this list of LGBTQ bars, clubs, and shops in Seattle and have listed their current opening status, so you can plot out your party plans. For more ideas, check out our pride calendar.
CLUBS
Pony
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The only gay bar in Seattle with an outdoor fire pit also has fantastic bartenders, clever DJs, and vintage gay porn (i.e., huge dicks) wheat-pasted to the walls. Plus, there's a photo booth. Plus, a gloryhole in the bathroom. What more do you want? Go-go dancers? They have go-go dancers on weekends. A tea dance? Sundays at 4 p.m. Once I showed up on a Tuesday, and the entire cast of a touring production of The Book of Mormon was there, singing their hearts out at karaoke. A word to the wise: The later you show up to Pony, the more crowded it will be. CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE
Queer/Bar
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This bar is trying to do something unique by being a bar for the entire queer community—including trans folks, nonbinary people, lesbians, and good-old-fashioned gay men. They also have regular drag performances.
Neighbours
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This is where the dancing happens. Raised platforms, disco lights, etc. Once a stalwart testament to enduring gayness, Neighbours these days welcomes more and more bachelorette parties. But with more than 30 years under its belt—the place is older than most of its clientele—Neighbours still hosts plenty of queer nights.
Kremwerk, the Timbre Room, and Cherry Nightclub
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Kremwerk, located downstairs, is sometimes like a Berlin techno club and sometimes like a punk drag performance venue. Go on the drag nights—but be prepared to get a little blood on you if you sit in the front row. (Or white paint. True story.) Upstairs is the tiny, fun Timbre Room, with a small bar and small dance floor that plays host to popular house music parties and drag events. And, as of February 2022, there's also Cherry on the ground level, the "most spacious and femme-iest club of the bunch," per Jas Keimig.
The Comeback
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Newly opened by the former general manager of R Place, the recently shuttered anchor of Capitol Hill queer nightlife, this new SoDo bar is its spiritual successor, but it's also more than that. At around 9,000 square feet, the new space allows a bar to spread out in a way that might not be possible in more tightly packed areas. There’s room to seat 150 to 200 people, with tables that can easily move on and off a dance floor. Modular walls allow the space to accommodate different needs on different nights, and there’s a gaming area with pool tables and dartboards near gender-neutral restrooms. Since the location is so close to the Lumen and T-Mobile sportholes, they’ll plan to cater to “the game crowd” with game-day food (nachos, chicken wings, hot dogs) and team-colored lighting.
Supernova
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SoDo's new club is not queer per se, but it's home to many a drag show. At the opening, The Stranger "found a mish-mash of attendees: investors, investor-types, Burners, straight men in lamé, sexy disco ball-headed go go dancers, members of the Marshall Law Band, government employees, a dude who looked exactly like Tony Bennett having the time of his life, a dude who looked exactly like Joe Biden also having the time of his life, musicians, people dressed for the club, people dressed for the grocery store, etc. On the periphery, very hot drag queens served alcohol to the VIP tables."
BARS
Crescent Lounge
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Seattle's venerable Crescent Lounge is a seedy, wonderful dive with a colorful host of regulars and the best karaoke on Capitol Hill.
Madison Pub
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A sports bar for men who like men. They have TVs, darts, pool, video games, and pull tabs. It's popular, crowded, and unpretentious.
Diesel
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Just steps away from Madison Pub and Pony, this bar caters to bears and the cubs who love them.
Wildrose
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The only bar in the city for women who date women has a screaming deal on tacos on Tuesdays—$1 for beef or bean tacos, $2 for chicken tacos, and $2 Tecates. On Wednesday night, there is karaoke at 9 p.m.
The Cuff
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A leather bar that’s frequently crowded with kinksters, jocks, pups, poz socials, and subs willing to shine your shoes, it also has a large outdoor patio. Seattle Men in Leather meet at the Cuff, and lots of gay sports teams have their social functions there. There are several different areas to hang out in, which makes hiding from your ex much easier.
The Eagle
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They have a urinal trough, video projections, an outdoor patio with a string of Christmas lights overhead, and screamingly fun parties.
CC Attle's
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The best night to visit this gay bar is a theme night—fetish night, leather night, underwear night. Guys dress up in the most amazing stuff (or sometimes almost nothing at all). On other nights, go for the slide show of naked men on the TVs, the pool table, and the darts. CC's also hosts the Seattle GAYmers on Wednesday and whiskey nights on Thursdays.
Changes
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This is North Seattle’s gay bar—the closest gay bar to the University of Washington, the Ballard Locks, or Northgate. They have pool, darts, Seahawks parties, and karaoke on Wednesdays.
TEMPORARILY CLOSED: The Lumber Yard Bar
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This White Center gay bar is lumberjack-themed. Logs are omnipresent: logs wrapped around the cords of Edison bulbs, logs chained to walls, log benches, log stools, log pictures, etc. The menu includes “wood pellets” (olives in cheese breading served with marinara) and a mashed potato bar.
Union Bar
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This gay bar and cocktail lounge comes from gay-bar-scene-dream-team Steve Nyman and Nathan Benedict (former owners of Inside Passage and Thumper’s) and Mark Engelmann (former manager of C.C. Attle’s). The bar features outdoor seating and a menu of appetizers, flatbread pizzas, paninis, burgers, salads, and sandwiches, along with spirits, wines, and beer on tap.
SHOPS
Babeland
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Vibrators on display, classes on everything from rope bondage to strap-ons to erotic massage, and a friendly staff, Babeland is perfectly suited to women who date women—but gay guys, straight couples, and folks across the spectrum are also welcome.
Doghouse Leathers
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A must-stop shop for kinky guys, this place has handmade leather apparel, pup supplies, bondage toys galore, dirty magazines, and a sexy staff.