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Ximen is Taipei's largest gayborhood, with over two dozen gay venues including gay hotels, bars, saunas, shops and restaurants. Many of the bars and shops are clustered around the heritage complex known as Red House. Easy access by subway and everything here is within a short walking distance.
Friendly bear den, owned and run by a hunky couple, Angus and Ken. Cocktails, coffee, tea and snacks in a spacious, modern, well-lit space with a clubhouse feeling. Crowd is 20+, bears and friends. Not much English spoken, but there's usually someone around who can. Open Tue-Fri 9am-4pm and 6pm-midnight; Sat/Sun 9am-noon. Closed Mon.
Foreigner-friendly gay bar located at the Red House courtyard, in the heart of Taipei's most hopping rainbow neighborhood. This al fresco bar is open during the day until late at night. Good music. Cocktails, coffee and more. Open daily 7pm-2am.
Second branch of this BDSM/fetish-themed bar is the hard gay hang out in town. Super design in black and red with bar and table seating. No smoking inside. Lot's of play spaces including racks and restraints, dark area, and jail cell. The bartender is excellent and making stiff drinks is his cocktail philosophy, including some inventive Absinthe concoctions. On the 3rd Sat of each month they throw their specialist D Day parties. Recent themes have included Mummy, Dogs & Trainers, Torture the Captive, Boots & Sneakers. Have your safeword prepared. The first gay bar in Taipei to have a no-smoking policy (smokers go out on the stairwell or outside to smoke). The crowd is generally younger, with a few people up to their early 40s as well. Open daily from 9:30pm until 3am on weeknights and 5am on weekends. Dark room is open on Fri and Sat.
Pandas (Asian bears) and monkeys (chasers) take note: this chub and bear-popular tea drink stall has a bar, sidewalk seating and a 2/F aircon bear den upstairs. They serve jumbo, non-alcoholic drinks in oversized jars and pitchers which make the pandas and chubs look even cuter. Open M-F 11am-midnight, Sa/Su 12:30pm-midnight.
Basement gay bar combining an industrial look with casual style. Bed seating in a private space. The excellent bartenders are friendly and like to chat. On weekends it is smoke-free inside. On the 2nd Sat of each month, they hold Hunting Season theme parties with shower shows, hunky workmen, and musclebound firemen, as well as other sexy hunks to set the atmosphere. Hot erotic events include lube-wrestling, Towel Day, Briefs Party, and Socks Covering your Cocks Day. Other parties include Fresh Meat Night, beer chugging, ski-shot and roulette stripping. Hunt's specialty drinks include Lamborghini, Death 3rd Episode, Wu Mei Niang, and lots of Absinthe cocktails to choose from. The crowd is primarily 20-35yo.
Drag, theme parties, gogo dancing. Open W-Su 9pm-late.
This heritage cultural complex houses is a de facto gay shopping center with more than a dozen LGBT and queer-friendly bars and shops. To get there take the Metro to Ximen Station Exit 1, and it's right in front of you. There are two floors. G/F has a series of bars and restaurants starting with the BAD.TW gay shop and ending with the busy Sol bar. Between these you have a dozen rainbow establishments. And don't overlook the venues on 2/F. It is mainly al fresco and can get cold and wet in the winter, so wrap up well if you visit then. Some of the bars have no toilets and this means a walk to public bathrooms. Lively most nights and packed on weekends. The partying runs into the wee hours.
Gay and lesbian-friendly bar that hosts LGBT parties on occasion. The cocktails here are creative and fun. A good place to drink and chilax with friends, old and new.
Dance, drag bar, and gogo with local music, Korean pop. Lots of young Taiwanese.
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