Gay Dublin

Pantibar

Bar e Club Gay

Owned by Panti Bliss — Ireland's most famous drag queen and LGBTQ+ activist. The social hub of Capel Street, Dublin's…

Grogan's Castle Lounge

Bar e Club Gay

Much-loved mixed Dublin pub on South William Street — beloved by artists, writers and the broader creative community.…

The George

Bar e Club Gay

Ireland's oldest gay bar — open since 1985 on South Great George's Street. Sunday bingo nights with Shirley Temple Ba…

The Workman's Club

Bar e Club Gay

Indie music venue on Wellington Quay with regular queer nights — mixed creative crowd, live music and club nights. Th…

Sweat

Saune Gay

Dublin's premier gay sauna — located in the Temple Bar area. Well-maintained facilities including steam room, sauna, …

Sauna 4

Saune Gay

North Dublin gay sauna convenient to Capel Street — compact facilities, local clientele, affordable entry. The north-…

Dublin, Ireland

Dublin Gay Pride 2026

Dublin Gay Pride is Ireland's national LGBTQ+ celebration, held each June in the city that voted overwhelmingly for marriage equality in the world's first same-sex marriage referendum by popular vote, in 2015. The parade through the city centre draws hundreds of thousands to the streets of Dublin, passing landmarks like Trinity College, the Spire on O'Connell Street, and the Temple Bar cultural quarter. The pride festival includes a week of cultural events, the popular BeLonG To youth programs, the International Mr. Gay Ireland competition, and the Saturday parade — one of the most emotional in Europe given Ireland's profound journey from criminalization of homosexuality (until 1993) to constitutional marriage equality.

Dublin, Ireland

International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival

The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival is the world's largest festival of LGBTQ+ theatre, held each May in a city with one of the world's great theatrical traditions. Over two weeks, dozens of productions from Ireland and internationally fill venues across Dublin with queer stories from the stage. The festival has been running since 2004 and has become an important part of both the global queer cultural calendar and Dublin's broader theatre scene.

Dublin, Ireland

Dublin Pride

Dublin Pride is held each June, celebrating Ireland's remarkable journey from criminalising homosexuality in 1993 to becoming the first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote in 2015. The parade through central Dublin is joyful and emotional, and the city's pubs and clubs add their own extended celebrations. A week of film, culture, and community events surrounds the main parade day.

Dublin, Ireland

Gaze LGBT Film Festival Dublin

Gaze is Ireland's leading LGBTQ+ film festival, held each August in Dublin and drawing queues of enthusiastic filmgoers to its programme of international queer cinema. Since 1992 the festival has been bringing LGBTQ+ stories to Irish screens, predating marriage equality by more than two decades. The programme mixes celebrated international titles with new Irish queer filmmaking, and the atmosphere at screenings is always warm and engaged.