Gay and Queer Clubs in NYC: Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, Brooklyn and Queens

New York's gay and queer clubs are spread across four areas: Chelsea (Club Rawhide, The Eagle), Hell's Kitchen (Industry Bar, HUSH, Hardware), East Williamsburg and Bushwick in Brooklyn (3 Dollar Bill, ANIMAL, House of Yes) and Astoria and Jackson Heights in Queens. Much of the dancing happens in bar-clubs, where you walk in at the door.

Quick answer

Chelsea: Club Rawhide and The Eagle

Club Rawhide, at 250 W 26th St, opened on June 12, 2026 with The Carry Nation and Junior M. It is a roughly 160-person house and disco club from the owners of Boxers NYC, with no phones on the dance floor, Friday nights and Love Sensation, a Sunday tea dance. It has no link to the old Rawhide bar that closed in 2012.

The Eagle, at 554 W 28th St, is Chelsea's leather and fetish bar-club, with dance floors and a roof deck. It opens every night (Monday until 3am, other nights until 4am), with Monday SINday, Twisted Tuesday and a Sunday beer blast; on weekends the dress code is leather, rubber, denim or uniform. It is listed as cash only.

DJ dance floor; theme nights such as Monday SINday and Twisted Tuesday · ChelseaSee The Eagle NYC →

Hell's Kitchen: Industry Bar, HUSH and Hardware

Hell's Kitchen is Manhattan's gay corridor, along 9th Ave between 42nd and 57th Streets. Industry Bar, at 355 W 52nd St, opens every day at 5pm, with pop, a drag show around 11pm every night and DJs on Friday and Saturday. Across the street, HUSH (348 W 52nd St) is a queer club in the former Therapy space, closed on Mondays and open from 5pm the rest of the week. Hardware, at 697 10th Ave, mixes drag with late Friday dance parties.

Pop, with drag shows every night · Hell's KitchenSee Industry Bar →

West Village and Harlem

Playhouse, at 100A 7th Ave S, opens daily from 2pm with top 40 remixes, drag, go-go competitions, Ruby Tuesdays and Showtunes Sundays. The Monster, at 80 Grove St, has a piano bar upstairs and a dance floor with shows downstairs. Uptown, Lambda Lounge (2256 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd) is a Black-owned queer bar-club with Wet Wednesdays and FNF Fridays, open Tuesday to Sunday.

· HarlemSee Lambda Lounge →

Brooklyn: 3 Dollar Bill, ANIMAL and House of Yes

3 Dollar Bill, at 260 Meserole St in East Williamsburg, has been a queer club since June 2018, with drag, pop and Latin nights, its sister room 9 Bob Note next door and Bushwig, the drag festival, at the end of September. ANIMAL, at 307 Meeker Ave, is a queer bar with a dance floor and a patio, house DJs and bear and fetish nights, open every day. House of Yes in Bushwick brings drag and cabaret into its themed weekend parties.

Queer club nights: drag, pop and Latin · East WilliamsburgSee 3 Dollar Bill →

House DJs; bear and fetish nights · East WilliamsburgSee ANIMAL →

Queens: Astoria and Jackson Heights

Icon Bar, at 31-84 33rd St in Astoria, does drag and theme parties with an open stage on Mondays. Roosevelt Ave in Jackson Heights is the Latin queer strip: Hombres Lounge (85-28 37th Ave, DJs and go-go dancers), Viva La Heights (78-13 Roosevelt Ave) and Friend's Tavern (78-11 Roosevelt Ave, a drag bar open since 1989). Nights there change often, so message us before you go.

Drag shows, theme parties and DJs · AstoriaSee Icon Bar →

In the Bronx, Solera opened in Port Morris in June 2026 and calls itself the only gay nightclub in the borough, according to the Bronx Times.

What closed

• The Q in Hell's Kitchen closed on March 27, 2023.
• Black Flamingo in Williamsburg closed on March 1, 2025.
• The Spot Bar in Hell's Kitchen closed in 2025.
• Club Lambda in Brooklyn held its last party on Feb 28, 2026; Lambda Lounge in Harlem stays open.

Pride

NYC Pride is at the end of June; in 2026 the March ran on June 28. Dates for 2027 are not out yet, and almost every club on this page runs Pride parties that week.