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Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland's consistently voted best LGBTQ+ bar in Edgewater, since 1999
Twist Social Club has anchored Cleveland's Edgewater neighborhood since 1999 and is routinely named the city's best gay bar. The draw is the entertainment: high-production drag shows on Thursdays and drag brunches on weekends, plus trivia nights and RuPaul's Drag Race watch parties through the week. An adjoining smokehouse turns out scratch-made barbecue, so the kitchen is a real part of the night rather than an afterthought. It's a polished, upbeat room — more nightclub energy than dive — and it pulls a mixed, social crowd that fills the patio in summer. For a traveler deciding where to land on the West Side, this is the dependable anchor: the place with the fullest calendar and the surest crowd. Twist also plays a community role beyond nightlife, hosting LGBTQ+ Browns watch parties and lending a hand to the Gay Games' run in Northeast Ohio.
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