About Gay Venues

Gay Venues is a directory of LGBTQ+ friendly bars, restaurants, hotels, gyms, shops, bathhouses, arts venues, and heritage sites across the US. We built it because finding a current, accurate list for a given city usually means piecing together several out-of-date sources. Our goal is one place with the basics right: address, hours, contact info, and what to expect.

How listings are put together

Every listing starts from public data — gaycities.com and Yelp — covering address, hours, phone, ratings, and reviews. Our editorial team writes the summary and highlights you see on each page from those facts. The rule we hold ourselves to is simple — never invent a phone number, an address, hours, or an attribute a venue doesn't have. If a fact isn't in the source data, the page leaves it out rather than guessing.

Keeping listings current

Venues open, close, move, and change hands, and our source data lags behind that. Most venue pages show a "Content last updated" date near the top — that's when our team last wrote or refreshed the page, not a phone call confirming the venue is still open. If you run a venue and something's wrong, use the "Claim or update this listing" link on its page, and we'll fix it.

Who's behind this

Gay Venues is built and maintained by a small editorial team. We're not a large media company — this is an independent project focused on getting one thing right for the LGBTQ+ community. Questions, corrections, or removal requests can go to hello@gay-venues.com, and we handle them ourselves.