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In Instanbul, the gay community is spread throughout the city there are many bars, clubs, restaurants and cafes to enjoy yourself.
Close to the Taksim District gay nightlife is the elegant boutique hotels where any gay traveler is going to feel right at home with pampered service and upscale rooms. These hotels offer uniquely different and stylish rooms to choose something for every vacation budget. The Taksim district of Beyoglu town on the European side of Istanbul is hailed as the center of almost all major gay activities. In fact, this district is also the center of general local nightlife. You can find modern or traditional gay clubs, bars, saunas and hamams near the Taksim/Beyoglu area. This neighborhood is also frequented by many (mostly bisexual) rent-boys.
Gay activities are becoming more and more visible especially during the recent years. The number of the gay night spots has increased rapidly especially during the past decade. If you're looking for ideas on where to travel, you can browse through the selection of travel guides for gays. Once you start bar-hopping around Taksim you'll see that in some gay venues, you should find yourself very colourful gay travel stories, as you can expect to encounter both trendy gay clubs as well as traditional ones near one another.
Here are some bars that should appeal to the audience:
-> KEHRIBAR is a good place to sample the latest in Turkish music - it has live pop and jazz. (Divan Hotel, Cumhuriyet Cad. 2, PHONE: 212/231-4100)
-> HAYAL KAHVESI attracts a mostly young crowd for live (and loud) rock and blues. (Büyükparmakkapi Sok. 19, Beyoglu, PHONE: 212/224-2558)
-> HARRY'S JAZZ BAR occasionally hosts live blues and rock acts. (Hyatt Regency Hotel, Takisla, Taksim, PHONE: 212/225-7000)
-> JAMES JOYCE offers live music everynight and Irish tunes on weekends. (Zambak Sokak 6, Istiklal Cad., Beyoglu, PHONE: 212/244-0241)
For those who wish to travel and to buy travel guides to learn more about Turkey, Istanbul with its cosmopolitan culture is the a mixture of east and west. The gay life in the city is one of the best ways to experience Istanbul's highly cosmopolitan atmosphere and diverse cultural fabric that is stretched from East to West.
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