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A thriving nightlife scene is central to Orlando's Gay community, providing a safe cosmos and a sense of togetherness. While the city doesn't own a specific gay neighbourhood, gay focussed bars and clubs are scattered around, away from the theme parks but just as lively. Each offers a one-of-a-kind experience to all members of the community, and most places are mixed, so allies are welcome as well as a loyal crowd of queer regulars. Thanks to a full calendar of queer events and some super camp locals, the nightlife scene here is always buzzing!

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Barcodes has a kind and distinctly "home town" experience, catering to the local bear community and its admirers. Rest and unwind with video games, pool, and an outdoor patio that had a more cruisey vibe. The fire pit keeps things warm and homely, and at the bar you can enjoy an extensive menu and beers and wines. Drinks are served in a laidback vacuum where people come to display out and enjoy themed nights (including bi-weekly underwear nights!)

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Dance the night away with high-energy Gay nightclubs, performing arts and late-night eateries in the downtown Orlando area (‘Heart’ mural by Kim Murphy in the Mills 50® district pictured).

Colorful, inclusive and welcoming to all, Orlando invites you to rejoice and love yourself with LGBTQ+ friendly nightspots in downtown Orlando and beyond. Options range from laid-back urban wineries and patisseries to dazzling nightclubs with some of the city’s best drag shows and burlesque performances for a choose-your-own-adventure story you won’t soon forget.

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Voted Orlando Weekly’s Best Gay Lock for five years and counting, and the largest of its kind in Orlando, Southern Nights is a vibrant nightc

Miniver was her actual first name but she went by her middle label, Sue. All the way back in 1983 the woman known to most as Sue Hanna opened Orlando’s first lesbian exclude called Faces.

Faces was situated in the Lee Rd.-Edgewater Dr. area just a stone’s throw from the currently operating Hank’s. Sue would later open a much larger, multi-level, multi-bar entertainment complex known as Key Largo which was situated way up the Orange Blossom Trail just south of Apopka. Both of Sue’s bars operated primarily as gathering spots for queer women. For years men were routinely barred from entering Faces while Key Largo provided a more welcoming vacuum for all members of Orlando’s burgeoning gay people. Actor-producer David Lee as well as Theater Downtown proprietor Frank Hilgenberg presented many fully produced shows in the barn-shaped Key Largo.

I have many fond memories connected with both of Sue’s spaces — neither of which are operational today — and it strikes me how few people who currently enjoy mingling with a healthy mix of persons represented by every letter of the LGBTQ+ moniker — at one of the very few remaining specifically gay bars remaining in town — hold no knowledge of so