A beautifully restored historical hamam where the management do their best to prevent any unseemly behaviour. But when your business is located at the bottom of a street of...

Bar Bahçe has been a fixture on the gay nightlife scene for over a decade, but it stays fresh by reinventing itself every couple of years. In its latest incarnation, you have...

A makeover several years ago did little to improve the forbidding appearance of this hard-to-find hamam, hidden among the backstreet hardware stores. The staff are apathetic...

One of the few clubs with room to wander and a crowd midweek, Déjà vu is inconspicuously tucked into a side street across from a 24-hour men's health club (and, handily for...

The only gay venue worthy of the title 'club', Love Point has a full-size dancefloor, a no riff-raff door policy, professional sound system and groovy DJs. It draws a mixed...

The latest addition to the club scene, Mon Key is housed in a three-storey building just across from a back street lined with tranny brothels. It's unusually roomy and...

What used to be Istanbul's first gay restaurant is now a club complete with house music, go-go boys and a tiny dancefloor. It's on the fourth floor of an apartment building;...

An after-hours club that used to mix the slightly sordid with the upmarket, Privé was the place where minor celebrities and socialites could slum in safety. Lately, the more...

Chamber of horrors or fun house? Sahra is three floors of get-it-here trannies basking in the tongue-lolling attention of young greasers, drooling hicks and aged toughs....

Under new management, Istanbul's first gay café not only offers smart decor, strong espresso and homemade Turkish sweets, but the chance for gay travellers to get an update on...

This is currently the most happening place in town, able to retain a few bears even as its new sound system, video screen and club tunes have begun packing in the clubbers,...

A neighbourhood hamam across from the Azapkapı Mosque at the base of the Atatürk Bridge. As good an introduction to the bathing scene as you'll get anywhere, with the added...