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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia's iconic Gayborhood nightclub, open for over 40 years.
Woody's has anchored Philadelphia's Gayborhood on 13th Street for more than forty years, named for founder Bill Wood and grown over the decades into a small empire of connected rooms. Two floors hold five distinct spaces: an open pub bar up front, a main dance floor, and themed lounges running everything from EDM and hip-hop to pop remixes and disco throwbacks. Rosewood is its Art Deco cocktail lounge for a slower drink, and Globar, the newer dance space, sits around the corner at 13th and Walnut. It's the default big night out in Philly's queer scene, the place that draws a broad cross-section of the city rather than one tight clique, and it has stayed standing through the AIDS crisis and decades of change in Center City. Whether you want a quiet pint or a full dance floor, you can find a version of the night you're after under one roof. For a visitor, it's the obvious anchor to build a Gayborhood evening around.
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