Gay Bars

Gay resources

The Abbey
536 Driggs Ave
(Between 7th & 8th Streets.
Take the L Train to Bedford Ave.)

Very cool mixed bar that attracts a more hip crowd. Occasional DJ or live music. Happy hour 4-8pm week days.

Bar 4 Park Slope
444 Seventh Ave (15th St)
Swanky neighborhood lounge with a coffee-bar ambiance and a sexy mixed crowd. Open noon-4am daily. Sat: DJ Zero Pressure. Never a cover. Call for live-music updates.

Excelsior Park Slope
390 Fifth Ave (Sixth St)

Mixed gay and lesbian cocktail bar with a porch and outdoor garden. Fiercely eclectic jukebox. Open seven days a week. Happy Hour: 6-8pm Mon-Fri; 2-7pm Sat-Sun. Thurs: Women+s Night with Cheryl and drink specials.

Ginger’s Bar Park Slope
363 Fifth Ave
Park Slope’s lesbian and gay bar with a sexy, Brooklyn crowd. Open seven days a week. Pool table, video games, killer jukebox, monthly drink specials.

Metropolitan is Williamsburg’s only bar for gay men and women and their straight friends (and it truly is mixed). Come in and enjoy the two fireplaces, nightly drink specials, weekly dj parties and so much more!
Metropolitan is located at 559 Lorimer St (btwn
Metropolitan & Devoe) in Williamsburg.

Metropolitan is open daily from 3pm-4am

R bar presents
“Mikey’s Big Gay Pajama Party” 9:pm
Every Tuesday Night/Free
Come clad in P.J.’s for a complimentary drink!
451 Meeker Ave@Graham Ave/718-486-6116

Roxbury Lounge
Gay Bar Club
DJ/Live music
Karaoke
315 93rd Street
Btw. 3rd & 4th Avenue
Bay Ridge
myspace.com/roxburybar

TOYBOX
256 Grand St (btwn Driggs & Roebling)
Williamsburg

ACLU – Lesbian & Gay Rights Project

Brooklyn AIDS Task Force
Founded in 1986, offers AIDS/HIV services, case management, support groups, outreach, education and advocacy. Call 783-0883.

Brooklyn Arts Exchange
Formerly Gowanus Arts Exchange, BAE is home to Brooklyn’s Center for Lesbian & Gay Arts & Artists and regularly features lesbian and gay performers. Located at 421 5th Avenue, you can call 832-0018 for a calendar and upcoming events.

Brooklyn College Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alliance
Founded in the early 1980’s by a few Gay and Lesbian students of Brooklyn College that wanted an organization to help other students who are Gay. This provided Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender students in Brooklyn College counseling and help for those who need it. No one is ever excluded for becoming a member of LGBTA, ever. LGBTA has events all throughout the school year for recreational enjoyment and information. To find out more call 951-4234.

Brooklyn Gay Network of Friends
A social club for gay men in Brooklyn, founded and facilitated using Yahoo! Clubs on the world wide web. Monthly meetings and on-line chats as well as various social events and outings organized by members.

Brooklyn NOW
Local chapter of the National Organization for Women, a grass roots, civil rights organization dedicated to women’s rights issues including lesbian/gay rights. Call 951-7441.

Brooklyn Pride
A multicultural group organizing the borough’s annual lesbian and gay parade and street festival. Meetings are the first Monday of the month. Call 670-3337 for further details.

Brooklyn Pro Choice Network
BPCN supports the right of all women to protect and determine their own mental and physical health. Through activities such as tabling, petitions, demonstrations, and clinic escorting, BPCN works especially for the maintenance of access to safe, legal, and funded abortion services. Winner of a Brooklyn Lambda Award!

Circle of Voices Inc. is a non-profit, Womyn of African Descent and Womyn of Color, organization which will provide multi-cultural artistic informative events.
To establish a creative arts environment where Womyn of African Descent and Womyn of Color who reflect all orientations can exchange information, herstories, knowledge and skills amongst each other and the community at large through performances, workshops, music festivals and seminars to communicate issues that affect our environment. Phone: • Email

Dignity/Brooklyn
Dignity is a group of gay and lesbian Catholics and meets the 3rd Saturday of the month at St. Anne and the Holy Trinity parish house at 122 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights. Call for details.

DYKE-TV
airs in Brooklyn every Tuesday at midnight Time Warner Cable channel 34 and Brooklyn-Queens Cable channel 67.

Gays and Lesbians of Bushwick Empowered
GLOBE is a newly formed group and the only resource for LGBT youth in Bushwick. It offers workshops, counseling and community. Call 418-7690, extension 202 for more information.

GRIOT Circle
GRIOT (Gay Reunion In Our Time) Circle is a community-based organization which seeks to create and maintain a safe space for older lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two spirit (LGBTT) people of color. We provide emotional support and quality programs and services to counteract the effects of ageism, racism, sexism, gender identity and homophobia on this fragmented and marginalized population.

Homovisiones
Airs in Brooklyn the fourth Saturday of the month at midnight on Time Warner Cable channel 56 and Brooklyn-Queens Cable channel 69

Gay Mens Health Crisis

Gay Roommate Information Network

Homo Xtra

Integrity/ Brooklyn
The local organization of and for LGBT Episcopalians and their families and friends. Call 680-1276 for information.

Lambda Independent Democrats
Brooklyn’s Lesbian and Gay democratic organization.

Lavender Bookshelf
A reading group for Lesbian’s in the Park Slope/Windsor Terrace area.

Lavender Pride
An online social group for women in the tri-state area.

Park Slope Geriatric Day Center’s FAMILY CAREGIVER PROJECT provides supportive services to caregivers of the elderly, with specific programs and services designed for either lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (LGBTQ) caregivers, or those who provide care for LGBTQ seniors. Services include individual and group counseling, benefits and entitlements assistance, information and referral, training and education, subsidized home care and supplemental services. If you are involved in caring for an older person, and one or both of you is a member of the LGBT communities of Brooklyn or Staten Island, the Family Caregiver Project may be able to help ease your stress and strain. For more information visit our website, www.psgdc.org or call.

The Lesbian Herstory Archives
Making its home in a Park Slope landmark brownstone since June 1993, it is the nation’s oldest and largest archival collection of lesbian herstory. Open to researchers and visitors. Call 368-3953.

The Audre Lorde Project
ALP is a non-profit center established by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Transgender (LGBTST) People of Color community. Located at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 South Oxford Street in Forte Greene, the Project was first brought together by Advocates for Gay Men of Color (a multi-racial network of gay men of color HIV policy advocates). Call 596-0342.

MatchedUpGay.com Are you tired of being “matched up” with all the wrong people? The people behind MatchedUpGay.com have been matching up people since 1985 and bring years of experience to MatchedUpGay.com to offer members the easiest and most fun way to meet like-minded people!

New York Blade

News Weekly

NYC Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center

NYC Lesbians FUN

PFLAG/Brooklyn

Rainbow Roommates

Sage

Shades of Lavender
A space in Park Slope created by a multicultural group of lesbian and bisexual women and youth. They offer self-help groups, discussion groups, workshops and referrals. Look for their newsletter throughout the Slope or call them at 622-2910.

Sing Out! Brooklyn
A chorus for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender singers of all colors. Meets Mondays from 7:30-9:30 pm at the First Unitarian Church, 50 Monroe Place at Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights. No longer accepting new members, but call 769-1421 or email

singoutproud@yahoo.com for more information about the next open auditions.

Hugh Simmons Psychotherapist in Boerum Hill, works with individuals and couples. Runs a gay men’s psychotherapy group. Co-producer and co-host of BCAT television show about psychotherapy called Frontiers: The Brooklyn Cable Psychotherapy Journal.

The Center for Anti-Violence Education
Strengthen Your Body, Focus Your Mind, Energize Your Spirit
Self-Defense and Martial Arts classes for Youth, Women, and Transgender People
421 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
info@cae-bklyn.org

Volunteer Prevention Group is a non-profit HIV/AIDS prevention organization in Brooklyn offering educational, support and counseling programs for prevention, serving youth and families.

Unity Fellowship Church
A non-denominational lesbian and gay church in the African-American tradition, worships every Sunday at 3 p.m. at 2578 Atlantic Avenue (Between Georgia and Alabama Avenues). Call 385-2406.