The Imperial, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desertįeatured in the opening scenes of one of THE all-time great drag movies, The Imperial looks more than a little rowdy, but also like a lot of goddam fun.
Please feel free to leave your own suggestions of any we may have missed at the bottom. With that in mind (and acknowledging that the bars and clubs depicted on this list are shamefully not that diverse, what with the cultural/media myth that every gay bar is basically a male leather biker bar) here's a short list of our favourite fictional gay bars from film and TV. Because, let's face it, an awful lot of people out there have absolutely no desire to ever visit a gay bar in the flesh, and the closest they will ever come to a gay bar is seeing one depicted on the big or small screens. Gay bars and clubs are, of course, very important for the LGBTQ community, but the depictions of gay bars (ie, spaces where homosexuals can gather and interact as we 'really are', without having to conform to the norms of straight society) can be just as powerful as the real life spaces that gays inhabit.
