Sorcery! Chauffering vacationing MeFites around is the closest I get to a meet-up.
#The oz gay bar new orleans code
My email address is in my profile.drop me a line and I'll hook you up with a secret numerical code that, when entered into your cell phone, will contact me. It's one of the few Marigny bars I go to. Mimi's, in the Marigny, isn't a gay bar, but it's definitely one of the more happening of the local joints. These last two bars have always struck me as a bit insular and even a bit dull, like all neighborhood bars I guess. You'll see the rainbow neon light in the window. Tell your hostess it's the blue building on the 2400 block of Chartres. To be fair, it doesn't have a sign out front. There's another neighborhood gay bar in the Marigny whose name I also can't remember. I don't know a lot about it.it's a local's bar, so most of the patrons walk home instead of take my cab. To which I can only say that I don't want my advice to get you into a bad situation.)Īround the Quarter from the Phoenix is another Western-themed bar I can't quite remember the name of. (I feel like I'm gonna get blasted for using the word "normal" to mean educated middle-class professionals who aren't coked-up disasters or tragic drama queens or rent boy meth addicts. I've never been inside, so I don't know what the atmosphere is, but the patrons I get in my cab are nice, respectful, and normal. It's also-I don't know a delicate way to put this-a bar where guys go to, uh, meet each other and relieve each other's stress. Pretty much any bar in the back half of the Quarter is, if not explicitly a gar bar, at least very gay-friendly.ĭown in the Marigny is The Phoenix, which is probably the closest thing to a bear bar we have. These are by no means the only gay bars in the Quarter, but these are the big ones. Over on North Rampart is a string of gay bars, like The Ninth Circle and a few others, that are probably not dangerous but are pretty sketchy.
(I'll put it like this.if you were my younger brother, I wouldn't mind you going to The Rawhide, but I'd be a little sketched out if you called me from The Roundup.) However, it also has a lot of old school Quarter types who seem like they've been going there for 100 years. The Roundup is a bit more iffy.I get a lot of users, losers, and abusers out of there. Based on the people I pick up or drop off, The Rawhide seems to be a club for normal dudes who are into a more "serious" scene and who don't want to hang out with the college kids and straight girls and tourists who gravitate to The Pub and the Oz. These are obviously a little rough around the edges, though I wouldn't exactly call them dangerous. I recommend it, though.) I'd hesitate to call them neighborhood bars, per se, because they're in the French Quarter and therefore susceptible to all sorts of random skeevy people coming through.Īlso around the bottom of the Quarter is Rawhide and The Roundup. (Don't confuse Lafitte's Landing with Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, which is right around there and isn't specifically a gay bar. Within a few blocks of there is Good Friends and Lafitte's Landing, which are a lot less crazy and not nearly as loud. These are really clubby.they're pretty much like any other Bourbon St club, except the drunken 20-year-olds dancing on the bars are skinny dudes instead of sorority girls. Ann and Bourbon is Parade (which most people still call The Pub) and Oz. The bottom end of the French Quarter-that is, the one closest to the Marigny-has a pretty high density of gay clubs and bars.
I'm not gay, but I do drive a cab in New Orleans, so I might have a little insight here.