Männerzone

Heroically unreconstructed, the Männerzone bar, next door to its leather and fetish shop, is a gay men’s space like Daddy used to make, and draws a more mature crowd. Cloney, beardy and beary with an industrial garage-inspired look that runs to overalls on the bar staff, it’s also laid-back, friendly and utterly unpretentious. The busy Friday and Saturday nights are strictly men-only with occasional stage shows putting lots of the shop’s more out-there fetish items through their paces, and themed parties letting you unleash your inner cowboy, sailor or slave. Lesbians seeking a similarly exclusive environment can find it at the popular, regular Tanz Leila (www.tanzleila.ch) parties, whose longstanding format welcomes women, transgenders, inters and drag kings to dance the first Sunday night of every month away at Club Exil.