Introducing Noiz: A Glittering, Decadent Lesbian Nightclub Open All-night, Every Evening | GO Mag

Whenever had been the last time you visited a lesbian dance club? Not a lesbian celebration. Perhaps not a lesbian bar. Not a lesbian night. I wish to discover large, throbbing, base-line working lesbian clubs, possessed by queer females and prioritizing queer ladies identities


all-night, each night.

In place of sit here watching the tumbleweed roll across our screens, I’ll risk a guess that the answer is never – with a few conditions. Either


you had been lucky enough to expend an untamed night at


London’s Lick The Club


, which launched for a very hot second in the summertime of 2019, and hung-up its dance boots – in this case, twerking shoes – within several months. Perchance you gallivanted in Colombia or Southern Korea inside time, and managed to celebration in La Moza (Bogotá) or Pink Hole (Seoul) before they shut down, too. Or you’ve gone to Noiz, a lesbian (had and priority) pub that has been throwing dance parties during Athens for 18 years.

The towering club sits on a busy path, beckoning you in along with her cushiony red carpet. You’re welcomed by large femmes at the doorway asking for IDs and evidence of vaccination (or bad quick examination). Once you’re in, within times of coats down, an obscenely sexy queer person – razor-sharp jawline, strong brown vision, short hair throughout the as well as edges – asks if you’d like a glass or two. Before you start looking up flights to Greece, no, it’s not that simple to hook-up here: the sexy individual offering you your first rounded is actually an employee, and this also prompt solution is part of Noiz’s charm.

“We have only gay people doing work for me personally,” owner Mary Psaroudaki tells GO. She in addition works two some other queer bars in Athens, creating this lady very the night life mogul. I fail to ask if she only employs very appealing gays, nonetheless it definitely seems this way.

The regal tone set from the red carpet goes on within the cavernous pub, with orange chandeliers and Grecian busts fulfilling disco testicle and neon-lit ‘dare getting rare’ signage. Every inch was designed by Mary’s companion of 13 many years and “very large really love” Tanya Papadaki. “she is my personal muse for doing business,” Psaroudaki  says. “she actually is an interior fashion designer, A-Z, everything you see in Noiz, is actually the woman concept. Make certain you mention the girl,” Psaroudaki adds sweetly, attempting to respect her muse.

“Every four decades we redesign my personal sites – with the help of Tanya without a doubt. Individuals get bored stiff easily, which means you have to hold circumstances fresh,” states Psaroudaki. “It is everything about respect. You must program regard toward lesbians, gays, queers, by constantly purchasing your sites, giving back once again to town. You can’t simply take.”

Looking around the lively venue, it surely feels like all that giving is actually paying. Women use plum lipstick while looking into peacock tri-fold mirror mirrors, before opening into ecstatic party making use of their peers. Noiz, like the doorway staff, is providing the highest femme electricity, becoming an incubator for women, students largely, homosexual, bi, queer, straight, who knows, all glammed right up for your vision of not one person but by themselves.

Everyone else sips increases of who-cares-what-spirit and mixers, and is also buzzing from the fizzy nice style of vibrant nights (and mild hangovers), which will have them all tearing within the dancefloor till 6 a.m. Its therefore good seeing these types of exuberant ingesting and dance, this type of unleashed womanliness, in a massive club where 2percent regarding the clients are males (multiple whom happened to be on reverse edges of club scrolling through Grindr, before uniting over a vodka-coke). Geri Halliwell’s



Raining Guys



ironically pumps through Noiz’s sound-system, as it fiercely rains ladies all night long very long.

Managing from large womanliness, a beautiful dykier-presenting crew starts to amass. All seem to have a minumum of one product of clothes from (un)official uniform associated with lesbian international: beanie, Vans, frayed Bermuda short pants, oversized tees, fades and tank covers revealing cut shoulders from play on some kind of recreation group. They’re at the front end, proper by the porches, secure into the information that club is good for them.

Geri Halliwell included, the sound recording is completely ready for every night of unabated obtaining free in the dancefloor. Tonight is likely superior smorgasbord of intercontinental celebration bangers I’ve heard at a celebration.


DJ Milena, Noiz’s citizen


, requires us globe-trotting with huge base bangers from Italy (Maneskin’s



Zitti Elizabeth Buoni



), Brazil (MC Neguinho’s



Beibe would Biruleibe Leibe



), Algeria (Mohamed Ramadan & Gims’



Ya Habibi



) and Greece (Eleni Foureira’s



Ti Koitas



), plus a bit of



Mambo No.5



for good measure. Its a group which is extremely fitted to owner Psaroudaki’s wanderlust. “I’ve been to many nations worldwide, above 80,” she claims. “It really is my personal passion knowing new-people, various ethnicities and of course I’ve been to numerous homosexual or lesbian taverns.”

During Busta Rhymes’



Arab Cash



, we’re sometimes struck by an effective old Greek energy slashed, or even the speakers hit. We sit in silence for a few times, although the beautiful staff members fixes the technical problem and the group chants “DJ Milena, DJ Milena,” revealing gratitude on her mixing expertise. In a short time, the standard returns since the strobe lights pierce through haze of cigarettes haunting the venue. Tiny lime lighting dart across the nightclub like fireflies as individuals recommence their night of cigarette smoking and dance in complete excitement.

Viewing everyone getting thus younger, very gay, so free, therefore extremely high on glucose and spirits, I ponder just how different late puberty would-have-been for plenty of us when we’d had an incubatory lesbian hub similar to this. Let’s say every city had a long-term site where you are able to entirely let loose while celebrating and increasing to your identity, everyday of any few days? At practically 2 decades outdated, Noiz is actually a popping stalwart when it comes to younger queer ladies’ neighborhood in Greece. “Thank Jesus,” claims Psaroudaki, “and thank the lesbians.”

Noiz Club Athens




, 78 Konstantinoupoleos Avenue, Gazi, Athens, open 11:45 p.m. until 6 a.m. from the weekends, until 4 a.m. throughout few days.