Badlands in the Castro is the Bay’s perennial dancing hotspot. If cheap drinks and a decent dance floor are what you’re looking for you then Badlands is the place you want to go, on pretty much any given night of the week. Also: 2 for 1 drinks!
The club promotes itself as a “Video Dance Club” which apparently is there way of saying: We have TVs everywhere that show the music videos of the songs we’re playing! Which also guarantees two things: 1. You will see Lady GaGa in a body suit at some point during the night and 2. They mostly play typical top 100 fare. Which isn’t to say the music’s bad (well sometimes they do go on an 80’s trip which results in the dance floor clearing out pretty rapidly) but it isn’t spectacular either. However did I mention 2 for 1 drinks?
The crowd is pretty diverse, which is nice. Given the sort of Neapolitan nature of the gay community, sometimes its rare to find a place where all different flavors can congregate and not tear each others weaves out. People run the gamut from twinks to bears to drag queens. There’s even a few straight people, which I’ll choose to overlook. Also: two for one drinks.
All-in-all Badlands isn’t exotic and it’s really nothing special but they are pretty good at what they do and it does seem to be the one bar in the Castro that you can rely on to not be deserted, which is a perk. Oh and their bartenders are all rather attractive and have a propensity to wear tank tops or no shirts at all. Which is nice cause you’ll be seeing a lot of them if you want to take advantage of the two for one drinks…
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