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Best LGBTQ-Friendly Bar2025 Winner

Big Bar

The Basics

Opened: 2012
Neighborhood: Highlands
Self-description: “Gay bar in Louisville for more than a decade.”

Best of Louisville Stats

Total nominations: 1

From a LouMag x Queer Kentucky Collab

Big Bar gives a home for queer people, including nightlife gig workers — bartenders, bar staff, drag artists, etc. — and has enough going on that there’s usually a place for everyone to do what they want.