gay bar

leon's of baltimore.

870 Park Ave · Baltimore, Maryland

about 1.1 miles southwest of the center of town

temporarily closed · temporarily closed since july 2026 while the bar transfers to its late owner's son-in-law. he said in july he hoped to reopen within a month, and leon's bartenders, karaoke and bingo are running at the club car in the meantime

the park avenue backroom, a gay bar since 1957 and the city's oldest continuously operating one by the baltimore fishbowl's count. named for leon lampe, who ran the place in the 1930s, and pouring under one family or another ever since.