Worcester ma gay bars

Still, you can find a few gay bars here, as well as some others that aren't exactly gay-specific but have earned a favorable reputation among the queer community. Worcester is a college town, home to a whopping 11 higher education institutions, including Clark University, Worcester State University, and University of Massachusetts' Medical School.

Needless to say, the after-dark crowd is young, for the most part, especially on "Worcester Mondays," when students get drink discounts at the bars and clubs. Even with the high concentration of early somethings, though, Worcester's nightlife scene is pretty tame when you compare it to bigger places.

You won't find Vegas-style clubs or Manhattan-worthy martini bars in worcester humble city, but there are a few good watering holes to choose from, even for the LGBTQ community. When you look at Providence, Massachusetts—less than an hour away, with a few thousand fewer people and one of the most robust gay nightlife scenes in the country—Worcester's LGBTQ bar offering seems a bit, well, scanty.

Nonetheless, there is one dedicated gay bar in the city and a few mixed ones to boot. There's always something going on in Worcester that's catered to the gay community—whether it be brunch, a fashion show, or a screening of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"—but the mother of them all is, of course, Worcester Pride.

It's held every year in early September so that the resident college students can participate and it features so much more than run-of-the-mill pride events. Yes, there's a parade and a subsequent festival with food trucks, vendors, live music, and more, but there's also an annual pageant, drag shows, and a downright rowdy afterparty that's held at none other than MB Lounge.

If you can't bar it in September, then perhaps you'll be around for the annual Drag Brunch in May, which is hosted by royalty of the previous pride festival. On a more regular basis, there gay queer dance parties taking place at venues throughout the city such as Electric Haze, obviously courtesy of Airspray.

Keep your eye on the group's Facebook page to find out when and where the next rendezvous will be. By Andrew Collins. Andrew Collins. Travel's editorial guidelines.

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