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** Hawk takes Tim to an underground LGBT+ night club in Washingon DC at which drag acts are performed, with an alarm light that is set to go off in the event of police raids.
** Hawk later takes Tim off to the Nomad tavern outside DC, a notorious gay hangout.

* ''Series/FellowTravelers2023'':

* ''Series/FellowTravelers2023'': Hawk takes Tim to an underground LGBT+ night club where drag acts are performed, with an alarm light that is set to go off in the event of police raids.

Lesbians are, depending on who is to be believed, either less scene-obsessed or less willing to support their spaces than gay men, so it's not unusual for a city to have one or two lesbian bars while having a dozen bars for gay men, each catering to a different crowd. Still, lesbian bars will be filled entirely with broad-shouldered, cigar chomping, work-booted [[ButchLesbian diesel dykes]] or [[GirlOnGirlIsHot young, nubile]] {{Lipstick Lesbian}}s. And the two shall never meet, even if it's the only dyke bar in town.

* [[''Series/HilaryTamar'' The Shortest Way to Hades'' features a club called Vashti's, described by one character as "a place frequented by females of unnatural propensity, seeking companions in disgraceful conduct" and another as "an agreeable little establishment where single women may enjoy one another’s company in relaxed and convivial surroundings". Ragwort is amazed to hear that Julia got kicked out of it, since he didn't think they actually had any rules to break.

** Delirium wandered into one of these at the beginning of the "Brief Lives" arc of ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.

* ''Series/FortyFourHundred'': Doc and his partner (both transgender-he's a trans man, she was a trans woman, though none of the terms even existed at the time) went to an LGBT+ club in 1920s Harlem, with other queer people there.

* ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'': Subverted in "Kasumi". Nicole takes Thelma to an underground lesbian bar in New York City where the clientele are all {{Lipstick Lesbian}}s, fitting with the retro 1940s aesthetic of the series.

* Babylon in ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' is one of the more well known examples, which follows every bit of this to a "T". Note: Babylon is this to a T for a reason - this was an accurate portrayal of gay life in Manchester at the time. Although this was most certainly not the case for the Americanized show set in Pittsburgh. The city's and the state of Pennsylvania's fairly strict regulations for bars and clubs would not allow anything like the fictional bar to stay open. This led to some very confused and depressed visitors. Not to mention that Pittsburgh's gay community would not be large enough to support a club the size of Babylon. To clarify, there's a very big difference between the two versions of Babylon; one simply being a huge (if flashy) club while the other had even set up at back room for the more intimate dancing and, from time to time, featured elaborate show and strippers. Male strippers of course.

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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Louis de Pointe du Lac and Daniel Molloy met in a San Francisco gay bar named Polynesian Mary's c. 1973. Louis and Rashid were there to do GayCruising.

* ''Series/{{Vida}}'': Though not a full on example as isn't aimed solely at them, Lyn and Emma (who's bisexual) start hosting LGBT+ events in their bar (with largely queer Latinas or AFAB Latinos) along with getting more as customers overall. Emma's girlfriends Cruz and Nico, along with lesbians whom they know, often hang out there with her.

* ''Series/TippingTheVelvet'': Nan brings Florence to a lesbian pub after they get together, though at first Florence thinks some of the women there are men, given they're cross-dressing. It's mostly filled with {{butch lesbian}}s, although some feminine ones are seen too (like the aforementioned two).

* ''Film/AllAboutE'': E starts out as the DJ at a night club which it appears cater to LGBT+ people, with drag acts and barechested male dancers as well.

* ''Series/TheWire'': the extremely homophobic Lamar is trying to track down {{Gayngster}} Omar Little by scouting out local gay bars. One of the gay bars he looks through features shirtless patrons, guys coming on to Lamar, a thumping bass track playing through the speakers and gay porn playing on the monitors.
** And if you look closely enough, [[ArmouredClosetGay police commander Bill Rawls]].

* The first episode of ''Series/WireInTheBlood'' had a classic example, right down to the hapless straight cop getting hit on by ''two'' ManlyGay types in quick succession.
** Justified in that they deliberately went looking for that type of bar as Tony said (correctly) it would be the type of place the killer would hang out in

* [[StraightGay Agent Smecker]], a self-hating homosexual, of ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'' gets drunk at one of these places shortly before heading to the church for a {{confessional}}. This trope is partly averted, however, in that it's portrayed as just a somewhat upscale bar with non-stereotypically gay patrons. Most of the other guys at the bar and wearing nice suits.

* ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' has very stereotypical one of these, [[spoiler:though it's more of a nightclub, in one episode. Alex takes Gene, Ray and Chris to it when she's undercover and they follow her, she doesn't tell them what type of club they are going to and freak out. Ray then has to pretend to be interested in a suspect and plays along till the suspect whispers something in his ear that makes him flip out so he starts a BarBrawl. We never find out what he said.]]