It’s been around for more than 30 years and still attracts a block-long line of gays waiting to get inside. It’s either a Madonna concert or Club Café, the ’83-born, still-pounding heart of Boston’s LGBT community: a go-to gathering spot for orgs planning activism over alcohol, a steward of gay cabaret culture in its front lounge and a default dance destination in its rear club, where coming out to bump and grind remains a rite of passage.
Club Café
209 Columbus Ave., Boston • (617) 536-0966
clubcafe.com
Other Winners
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Gay Scene
2014 Winner: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell At Great Scott
Every month, this sickening (that’s good) soiree thumbs its glitter-speckled nose at more mainstream gay nights dominated by neatly pressed polo shirts...
- 1222 Comm. Ave., Boston
- (617) 566-9014
- pleasedontaskdonttell.blogspot.com
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Gay Scene
2015 Winner: Hot Mess! Sundays at Candibar
If your Saturday night wasn’t wild enough, come to this recently revamped club for sloppy weekend seconds, courtesy of a weekly party hosted by New England’s longtime LGBT nightlife kingpin Chris Harris…...
- 279 Tremont St., Boston
- (617) 292-0080
- candibarboston.com
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Gay Scene
2016 Winner: Fuzz at The Alley
This downtown dive was a somewhat slumbering den of Boston bears...
- 14 Pi Alley, Boston
- (617) 263-1449
- thealleybar.com
Photo Credit: Sam Waxman -
Photo Credit: Arlan Fonseca
