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My buddy is here for a week and wants to drag my wife and I to a gay club (or 2) to get his groove on and his drink on and his trick on!!! He is a model-type from New York City and wants to have a great time for his first visit to Munich... any ideas??? Needless to say, we just don't have a clue!!! THANKS ALL...
Take him down to near Sendlinger Tor, on Müllerstr. or Hans-Sachs Str. He'll probably be able to sniff something out around there. That or ask any of the extras from the Village People who you see walking around.
Bit late now, but Soul City is what you are looking for. Thursday night is open door night
Jesus, 1st post here and what a topic!
Anyway, more than a bit late but your mate would probably had the best time in either Together / Old Mrs Hendersons in Müllerstr (cosy, charts and disco) or New York on Sonnenstr (bigger, more housey and techno) on either Friday or Saturday nights.
The various gay clubs have between them stuff going on on Thursdays and Sundays too, often motto parties and shows / special events.
And the bars are always open. If your friend is a model, Morizz or Iwan might have been bars to go to to drink cocktails with the pretty boys... Not my cup of tea mind, I've refused to go in Morizz for years cos of their attitude.
Anyway, more than a bit late but your mate would probably had the best time in either Together / Old Mrs Hendersons in Müllerstr (cosy, charts and disco) or New York on Sonnenstr (bigger, more housey and techno) on either Friday or Saturday nights.
The various gay clubs have between them stuff going on on Thursdays and Sundays too, often motto parties and shows / special events.
And the bars are always open. If your friend is a model, Morizz or Iwan might have been bars to go to to drink cocktails with the pretty boys... Not my cup of tea mind, I've refused to go in Morizz for years cos of their attitude.
OK. For the record, my 'friend' who made this post was a fellow opera singer who was here on an audition trip and hijacked my computer whilst he was staying in my living room. He didn't bother to create his own login name but rather used mine and phrased it like it was me.
"OF COURSE I wouldn't have a problem with it because he was my friend" was his thinking but he ended up making it sound like I was the one who was pretending to be strait.
He then proceded to make another thread about trying on Lederhosen and getting his photo made which really put me in the grey area with the mates here.
Later on he told me about it and PS, we only 'sniffed out' 4 establishments. Two strait and two gay. Can't remember which ones but they sucked. The guys just sat around and not one person was speaking to anyone else. We all (wife included) just ended up going home and drinking our weissbeir and calling it a night.
For anyone else reading this thread for informative clubbing options, please direct any other questions to grtho or others. Yes, I do sing and dance and have friends in leather pants, but don't we all?
"OF COURSE I wouldn't have a problem with it because he was my friend" was his thinking but he ended up making it sound like I was the one who was pretending to be strait.
He then proceded to make another thread about trying on Lederhosen and getting his photo made which really put me in the grey area with the mates here.
Later on he told me about it and PS, we only 'sniffed out' 4 establishments. Two strait and two gay. Can't remember which ones but they sucked. The guys just sat around and not one person was speaking to anyone else. We all (wife included) just ended up going home and drinking our weissbeir and calling it a night.
For anyone else reading this thread for informative clubbing options, please direct any other questions to grtho or others. Yes, I do sing and dance and have friends in leather pants, but don't we all?
A fair number of English speaking left footers in Munich but a lot of them tend not to talk to know each other or speak to each other too much. I'm away for a bit but anyone up for a gay & lesbian Toytown meetup ?
Yeah, a lot of straights dress gay and a lot of gays dress straight, can be a bit funny re-tuning your gaydar like. And a LOT of Munich gays simply don't talk, especially in the posher pubs, though some of the bars are errrr, very contact friendly!
Me and a mate had a go at an English speaking kind of Stammtisch in the gay centre but it never really took off, so me and him just go and drunk there most Thursdays instead! €2.60 for Augustiner Edelstoff!!!
Just to add: If anyone new to Toytown wants to know what kind of gay bars and where, I can give info as I've been aroud a bit, PM me if you want.
Yeah, a lot of straights dress gay and a lot of gays dress straight, can be a bit funny re-tuning your gaydar like. And a LOT of Munich gays simply don't talk, especially in the posher pubs, though some of the bars are errrr, very contact friendly!
Me and a mate had a go at an English speaking kind of Stammtisch in the gay centre but it never really took off, so me and him just go and drunk there most Thursdays instead! €2.60 for Augustiner Edelstoff!!!
€2.60 for Augustiner Edelstoff!!!Just to add: If anyone new to Toytown wants to know what kind of gay bars and where, I can give info as I've been aroud a bit, PM me if you want.
Hello fellow Anglophones!
I am in a funny mood today, so I figured why not give this a go...
I have been living in Munich now for almost 3 years, but really have not found any gay, bisexual, or what the hell, metrosexual guys that like to go out to the gay scene and have fun.
I have been to Carmen's Lounge a few times and depending on my blood alcohol level, it can actually be fun, contrary to popular belief - however, other than that, I have not really found anything that strikes my fancy. I was in Selig once, but after standing alone for 10 minutes, I felt awful and left. It was also very empty. Why does everyone go home at 1 or 2AM here?
So if anyone can give me any tips of a timely nature (the Gay Bar Guide on Toytown Munich is a bit dated), I would be really grateful. And, if anyone might even venture a night out with me, well then, I would be very much open to the idea.
In that direction, I am 26 now, and I like very mainstream and 80s music. I hate "black music" nights and the like. I suppose I am quintessentially gay when it comes to body and dress - more of the trendy type I suppose. I speak fluent German and also Spanish if that helps communications.
HOWEVER, this is NOT a personal add. I'm just looking for fun and folks to go out with maybe, but most of all tips on where to go.
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I am in a funny mood today, so I figured why not give this a go...
I have been living in Munich now for almost 3 years, but really have not found any gay, bisexual, or what the hell, metrosexual guys that like to go out to the gay scene and have fun.
I have been to Carmen's Lounge a few times and depending on my blood alcohol level, it can actually be fun, contrary to popular belief - however, other than that, I have not really found anything that strikes my fancy. I was in Selig once, but after standing alone for 10 minutes, I felt awful and left. It was also very empty. Why does everyone go home at 1 or 2AM here?
So if anyone can give me any tips of a timely nature (the Gay Bar Guide on Toytown Munich is a bit dated), I would be really grateful. And, if anyone might even venture a night out with me, well then, I would be very much open to the idea.
In that direction, I am 26 now, and I like very mainstream and 80s music. I hate "black music" nights and the like. I suppose I am quintessentially gay when it comes to body and dress - more of the trendy type I suppose. I speak fluent German and also Spanish if that helps communications.
HOWEVER, this is NOT a personal add. I'm just looking for fun and folks to go out with maybe, but most of all tips on where to go.
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Also look Meeting gay guys - bars, clubs, and online.
...and see also the TT listing of Gay and lesbian bars in Munich
Profundo, As a self proclaimed fag hag renamed fruit fly by friends, I have gaydar baby and your so straight you squeak when you walk.
I just moved to Munich from NYC, USA. I am very curious to know where the best gay dance clubs are. I like hip-hop, reggae, dancehall and house music. Any suggestions? help a brother out please!!!
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I have a slight self-interest but I hope the people who know the places wil think I've given objective info
I don’t know of any gay locations that play reggae or dancehall in Munich.
I quite like hip-hop and there are quite a few gay hip-hop fans out there but the one night that tried to get going in Munich fell by the wayside.
I’m not hugely into house though a lot of gay men in Munich are.
Saturdays in Stud (VERY cruisy, slightly “leathery� ) is harder house.
Maybe try New York when it re-opens in October/November.
Some of the monthly/fortnightly events like Flikkers or Queer Kitchen perhaps, they are slightly more up the scale.
Oooops, yes it is a wee bit dated and I had it down on my �to do� list but the Toytowners who write those reviews have a lot of stuff going on at the moment.
Thanks for the reminder!
Carmen’s Lounge in the Theklastrasse does what it does really well.
Pissed up and want a cheeeeeeezy night out for very little money? That’s the place to go!
It gets VERY busy.
If it is a bit too full, the music a bit too cheesy or the crowd a bit too young you can go to their sister club “Carmens Hendersen� around the corner at Müllerstrasse 1. The club is just establishing itself but the basic music policy is dance music from the 80s till today but little / no German Schlager, house, RnB. The majority of the customers are gay but it is in a metrosexual direction.
Well on weeknights it’s because they have to go to work the next day with the bars emptying out noticeably after midnight though there Nil for example stays open until 3. There are also some club nights that run on Thursdays and Sundays.
At the weekend people who are just out to the pub head home around 1 or 2.
Early clubbers around 3 or 4. But Fridays and Saturday nights, well the respective next mornings, a lot of clubs will be open and full until 6AM and sometimes later. And after that, the hard core party animals head to after-hour parties or to one of the early-door bars in the gay village that open at 6AM. It’s likely to be raucous and your mother wouldn’t like it but the party goes on!
Now I must admit when it first opened I disliked Selig with a passion.
If I walk past in the early evening I can’t stand the “oh so sophisticated� posers sipping their coffees or having an exclusive tete a tete (and that’s your actual French!) over a glass of wine. It’s not very enticing and you are unlikely to get into a conversation. Later it’s a different story and a lot more relaxed. In the last few weeks it’s become one of my bars of choice to stop off at for a beer on the way home after a night out.
But this is the quintessential point that English speakers have about pubs and bars in Munich, that it is harder to make contact with people. Maybe it’s true, but it is maybe also just that the social rules and signals are slightly different. Anyway, that difficulty is multiplied tenfold on the gay scene where a fair bit of snobbishness in some bars gets added on. And to be honest it’s not just the “beautiful� queens in Prada doing it. One of the reasons I’ve gone off Bau and have dropped it for Selig for a “on the way home� drink is that in a supposed cruisy bar the men would just stand around staring at each other; daring each other to make the first move and get shot down in flames.
Now I get called for it sometimes but my local bar is SUB, the gay community centre at Müllerstrass 43. It’s not fashionable; it’s not trendy and is run not as a pure business but for the benefit of the community. It’s cheap beer, the most contact friendly bar on the scene and has the biggest mix of customers. You can also get information and flyers there for all the places to go, there’s no way we could get them all on TT. Rumour has it that you are quite likely to find native English speakers drinking in there and sometimes working the bar and info-desk too.
On a final note; you mentioned the 80s above. It is ÜBER Cheezy but a little bird tells me that in Carmen’s Lounge on Friday you are fairly likely to hear the DJ do a PWL / Stock Aitken and Waterman set sometime after 4AM (ie Saturday morning). I’ll be there giving it loads to Hazel Dean and Kylie’s “Better the Devil You know� etc etc. Maybe see you.
QUOTE (Blktanzer22 @ Sep 4 2005, 5:10 pm)
I am very curious to know where the best gay dance clubs are. I like hip-hop, reggae, dancehall and house music. Any suggestions? help a brother out please!!!
I don’t know of any gay locations that play reggae or dancehall in Munich.
I quite like hip-hop and there are quite a few gay hip-hop fans out there but the one night that tried to get going in Munich fell by the wayside.
I’m not hugely into house though a lot of gay men in Munich are.
Saturdays in Stud (VERY cruisy, slightly “leathery� ) is harder house.
Maybe try New York when it re-opens in October/November.
Some of the monthly/fortnightly events like Flikkers or Queer Kitchen perhaps, they are slightly more up the scale.
QUOTE (be001g @ Aug 27 2005, 8:36 pm)
the Gay Bar Guide on Toytown Munich is a bit dated
Oooops, yes it is a wee bit dated and I had it down on my �to do� list but the Toytowners who write those reviews have a lot of stuff going on at the moment.
Thanks for the reminder!
QUOTE (be001g @ Aug 27 2005, 8:36 pm)
I have been to Carmen's Lounge a few times and depending on my blood alcohol level, it can actually be fun, contrary to popular belief - however, other than that, I have not really found anything that strikes my fancy. I like very mainstream and 80s music. I hate "black music" nights and the like.
Carmen’s Lounge in the Theklastrasse does what it does really well.
Pissed up and want a cheeeeeeezy night out for very little money? That’s the place to go!
It gets VERY busy.
If it is a bit too full, the music a bit too cheesy or the crowd a bit too young you can go to their sister club “Carmens Hendersen� around the corner at Müllerstrasse 1. The club is just establishing itself but the basic music policy is dance music from the 80s till today but little / no German Schlager, house, RnB. The majority of the customers are gay but it is in a metrosexual direction.
QUOTE (be001g @ Aug 27 2005, 8:36 pm)
Why does everyone go home at 1 or 2AM here?Â
Well on weeknights it’s because they have to go to work the next day with the bars emptying out noticeably after midnight though there Nil for example stays open until 3. There are also some club nights that run on Thursdays and Sundays.
At the weekend people who are just out to the pub head home around 1 or 2.
Early clubbers around 3 or 4. But Fridays and Saturday nights, well the respective next mornings, a lot of clubs will be open and full until 6AM and sometimes later. And after that, the hard core party animals head to after-hour parties or to one of the early-door bars in the gay village that open at 6AM. It’s likely to be raucous and your mother wouldn’t like it but the party goes on!
QUOTE (be001g @ Aug 27 2005, 8:36 pm)
I have been living in Munich now for almost 3 years, but really have not found any gay, bisexual, or what the hell, metrosexual guys that like to go out to the gay scene and have fun. ………I was in Selig once, but after standing alone for 10 minutes, I felt awful and left.
Now I must admit when it first opened I disliked Selig with a passion.
If I walk past in the early evening I can’t stand the “oh so sophisticated� posers sipping their coffees or having an exclusive tete a tete (and that’s your actual French!) over a glass of wine. It’s not very enticing and you are unlikely to get into a conversation. Later it’s a different story and a lot more relaxed. In the last few weeks it’s become one of my bars of choice to stop off at for a beer on the way home after a night out.
But this is the quintessential point that English speakers have about pubs and bars in Munich, that it is harder to make contact with people. Maybe it’s true, but it is maybe also just that the social rules and signals are slightly different. Anyway, that difficulty is multiplied tenfold on the gay scene where a fair bit of snobbishness in some bars gets added on. And to be honest it’s not just the “beautiful� queens in Prada doing it. One of the reasons I’ve gone off Bau and have dropped it for Selig for a “on the way home� drink is that in a supposed cruisy bar the men would just stand around staring at each other; daring each other to make the first move and get shot down in flames.
Now I get called for it sometimes but my local bar is SUB, the gay community centre at Müllerstrass 43. It’s not fashionable; it’s not trendy and is run not as a pure business but for the benefit of the community. It’s cheap beer, the most contact friendly bar on the scene and has the biggest mix of customers. You can also get information and flyers there for all the places to go, there’s no way we could get them all on TT. Rumour has it that you are quite likely to find native English speakers drinking in there and sometimes working the bar and info-desk too.
On a final note; you mentioned the 80s above. It is ÜBER Cheezy but a little bird tells me that in Carmen’s Lounge on Friday you are fairly likely to hear the DJ do a PWL / Stock Aitken and Waterman set sometime after 4AM (ie Saturday morning). I’ll be there giving it loads to Hazel Dean and Kylie’s “Better the Devil You know� etc etc. Maybe see you.
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