Gay Lisbon has established a reputation as one of Europe's main clubbing cities. Whether your preference is dancing to house or to the sounds of a live band, the city provides a full range of clubs.
Since most locals begin the night with a long dinner and bar-hopping for hours, the dancing clubs only really get going after 2AM, and no real hard-core reveler leaves before dawn. During the week admission is often free, but can cost anywhere between 10 and 20 euros on weekends.
Some club entrances are extremely low-key and you must ring a bell to get in, as is the case with Fragil and Incognito.
Bric A Bar is a cruisy gay bar-disco with a resident DJ, a "darkroom", and several bars. Gay videos play at a bar upstairs while the techno, house, and dance-pop music is danced to on the lower level.
Finalmente is a very small, yet very popular gay club. It can get quite crowded at the end of the night (meaning early hours of the day in Lisbon), but you can squeeze into the tiny dance floor and dance to some classic gay anthems or watch the regular drag shows.
Maria Lisboa, which started as a lesbian club is now one of Lisbon's top gay hotspots where you'll meet as many guys as gals. The drag shows have become a popular attraction, with Fridays having a soundtrack of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and Saturdays becoming packed for the lively ambience and music by the resident DJs.
Mr Gay is a huge club housed in a former warehouse lies outside Lisbon, on the other side of 25 de Abril Bridge on the road to the Costa da Caparica beaches. It has a large dance floor and is known for its eccentric drag shows. Located on Quinta Da Silveira, Via Rápida Costa da Caparica
,you will need a car to get there, as the club is located at the expressway from the A2 highway to the Costa da Caparica, south of Lisbon.
Trumps is the largest gay club in Portugal consisting of several bars and two dance floors that get packed on weekends. Lesbians make up about a quarter of the crowd, but most are gay males and a few of their straight friends who join in the upbeat atmosphere. The music is pop hits on the smaller dance floor, and dance and house on the main, larger floor.
Lux, partly owned by Hollywood actor John Malkovich, this is Lisbon's hippest club and one of Europe's most fashionable (especially when it comes to the interior decoration), having attracted visiting stars like Cameron Diaz and Prince. It couldn't be a more stylish place, with a spacious interior decorated with funky and retro furniture.
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