Twist means trouble – the good kind of trouble, that is. The bar’s one-syllable name communicates the same thing whether uttered by a sunburned Eurotrash visitor or a hunky Venezuelan college student. After all, Twist is not only the longest-running gay bar on Miami Beach, it’s gay Miami’s ground zero, the roux in Miami’s gay gumbo. On any given night you’ll: a) get sloshed b) make out with an out-of-towner c) meet an interesting stranger or d) all of the above. The charm of Twist, the sprawling, storied Miami Beach gay nightclub is its predictability. Slip into your moonboots, spike up that faux hawk, and get ready to explore. Anything is bound to happen in SoFla’s glittery gay vastness.
There’s leather world, attitude atmospheres, muscle-bound supernovas, wacked-out black holes, and of course, Planet Botox. Fashionista twinks clink drinks with straight-acting Cuban cowboys. Planet Hip-Hop thumps down-low style alongside glamorama drag.
Are you a star in South Florida’s gay nightclub universe, or are you merely an alien passing through? Gay South Florida is a vast, and at times, unwieldy galaxy with several worlds spinning in chaotic orbits.
