It serves brick-oven pizza and beer on tap, and offers pool tables for the after-work or post-game hours. The men at this gay sports bar enjoy watching the hot barmen more than the sports on the screens. It’s now mostly a place to watch fierce drag performances. Website: Barracuda LoungeĪ popular bar since 1995, it has attracted celebrities and the most fabulous drag queens over the years. It’s now a place where every gay New Yorker and tourist wants to go, celebrating LGBT rights through dance parties and drag performances. The world’s most famous gay bar was where the gay pride movement got started, after it was raided by police in June of 1969. Popular cruisy gay bars are found down 8th Avenue in Chelsea and in Greenwich Village (which is also home to fun-spirited gay shops around Christopher St.), while other mixed venues are in the Meatpacking District and Hell's Kitchen. It’s the city where everyone escapes to for the freedom to be themselves, not just in one gayborhood, but in pretty much the entire island of Manhattan. It’s home to Stonewall and the reason why there are gay pride events all over the world in June. Sorry San Francisco, but New York is the gay capital of the world.