There is a drag show with both kings and queens at 12:30 am every Saturday and the casts are usually from Ru-Pauls Drag Race or other noteworthy competitions. It is bigger than Gbar and hosts larger events such as glow, foam, pinup, and fetish parties. Honeypot (1507 E 7th Ave.) Open: 9pm-3am – Honeypot, sister club to Gbar, hosts their lesbian night on Saturday nights.
Local tip: go before 11 and get free cover! These are my favorite nights because titties. Gbar also tends to host a pretty good number of wet t-shirt contests where anyone can enter and the winner gets a $200 bar tab. Everyone from super femmes in pretty dresses to butches, bois, soft studs, punk rock girls, and everyone in between, all get hot and sweaty on the dance floor together where guest lady-DJ’s from Miami frequently spin awesome dance mixes. Friday nights at Gbar are Lesbian “tease” nights and is usually jam packed. The clubs flip flop with who gets to host the gay boys and who gets to host the queer ladies which night. Gbar (1401 E 7th Ave.) Open: 9pm-3am – Gbar and Honeypot, two of Ybor’s main LGBT clubs, are under the same management and are the top spot for lesbians who are 18+ to club in Tampa. Because come on people, dancing with the ladies is fun! Thankfully Tampa has a pretty good lesbian club scene, so your needs to get out and party are pretty much covered. Not gonna lie, the first thing I check for when I am traveling to an unknown city is the club scene. When most people think of Florida cities, they seem to think Miami, but always seem to forget about Tampa who just sits up here located on the water like “hey guys I’m pretty fab too!” Tampa is totally fun and fierce and fabulous and is super gay and then there is the beach and you are located like an hour and a half away from Disney! In addition, people living in Tampa are often lovingly called Tampons which is amusing and also the perfect label for this lady-loving city. I have lived in Tampa all of my 20 long years and have traveled a lot in my life, but still always classify Tampa as the best place to call home.
Great restaurant named Flor Fina and a nice bar with live music and a Cuban vibe. Hotel Haya is a fantastic new hotel on the North end of 7th ave ( the main street in ybor). Now the area is a hub of night life for young people after 10pm but is experiencing a shift into a residential area teeming with nice restaurants to attract all ages. Ybor (pronounced e bore) is an area that was the center of Tampa with Cuban immigrants making hand rolled Cigars. From vacant lots, new condominiums, apartments, hotels, and corporate headquarter buildings have risen. The old brick buildings left from the factories were renovated as retail shops, restaurants, and bars. Since 2000, the city of Tampa has invested a lot of money in developing Ybor for tourists. In the 1890s the area was rolling out tens of millions of cigars and after the turn of the century it was rolling out hundreds of milions of cigars. The cooler weather was ideal for cigar making. Martínez-Ybor and Ignacio Haya, formed a partnership to develop a cigar-manufacturing town near Tampa. One of the first manufacturers was Vicente Martinez-Ybor. History - At the turn of the 20th century, Tampa’s Ybor City was known as the “Cigar Capital of the World.” Political trouble in Cuba compelled Cuban cigar manufacturers to build factories in the US. This area is very modern while it developed to restore its history.
Learn about Tampa's history while you walk around an area full of restaurants, bars, cafe's and shops. This historic area is a great place to visit.