Lovegun

Great music, good dancing, interesting & beautiful people. The drinks were strong and reasonably priced. I’ll definitely go again at some point.

Sad to see that this bar was empty on a Saturday night at 11pm. Perhaps the crown comes later?
Also, it’s a bit loud for how small it is.
That said, I loved meeting their bartender. Very friendly guy!

My friends dragged me here a little while ago, fun place. No cover charge when I went, cheap drinks, cool vibe, nice crowd. Loved it.

Lovegun is full of promise but epically falls flat. Urine soaked bathrooms. Bartenders who trash your drinks before you are done with them. Extra tall barstools that are impossible to get into without a running leap. Horrific desperate scene on a Saturday night — and not in a good way. I think the only redeeming qualities of this place are the weekly filming of The Pee-​eew and the giant neon sign. Wonder who will get the sign when they inevitably close.

We were already partying before we stumbled into this place but it still wasn’t as live as we expected it to be. We first went in at 9:30 and not a soul was there so we went back at 12 and there was still only around 40 – 50 people spread out amongst two floors. The music wasn’t that good and no one seemed interested in anything. The place itself is a bit small and didn’t have any special attractions. I wasn’t a fan of the drinks, either.

Lovegun is pretty spotty. Don’t arrive here before 1am or it’ll be super dead. I agree with some of the other Unilocalers… the club itself gives off a Hell’s Kitchen vibe but with a Brooklyn crowd. The music is typical gay pop and/​or 70s. The DJ on Friday nights does NOT know how to transition between songs… so awkward. I’m not sure that a lot of people know about this place yet even though its been around for some time. The second floor has never been opened since I’ve been either. Drink prices are inconsistent — $ 6 for a mixed drink and then $ 9 another time I went for the same drink.

Our experience here was fairly good. The staff was friendly but it was kind of empty and we hated the electronic cliché gay dance music. P. S. We’re gay.

10:30 on a Friday… this place was dead and had a COVER? laughable. No thanks. Metro or Tandem please

I’ve been to Lovegun a few times, and it’s fast becoming my go-​to spot in Williamsburg. The space is amazing, with plenty of elbow room to dance and move around, and the DJ line up is consistently strong. Cute crowd, drawing a good mix of various gay tribes, from bears to Brooklyn hipsters to muscle boys to club kids. The weekends are pretty crazy fun, and the drag show on Mondays have been a hoot!

I stopped by love gun with my girlfriends last friday and i was pleasantly surprised. They had great music. There was definitely a gay vibe, drag queens, go go boys, and a mixed crowd. The drinks were reasonable and i was glad there was no cover charge. I will def go back and bring more friends.

Lovegun is trying to be a Manhattan gay bar. While eastern block is trying to be a Brooklyn gay bar… Anyway my experiences here has never been good. The pretentious upper floor verse the second class lower floor is not fitting to the Brooklyn scene at all. One of the biggest turn on’s to Brooklyn gay bars is the lack of prestige and the unique people that they are filled with. I think love gun is just trying to sterilize the area. It is too clean and There are never that many minorities here. This is the place to find a pig trough of white insecure men with beards in jeans just standing there not dancing. How original.

This is not Hell’s Kitchen.

Knowing this bar sprang from the mind who brought us Eastern Bloc, easily one of New York’s best gay bars, Lovegun set the bar quite high for itself. Then ran headlong into it at full force.
Enter this bar and you immediately see the appeal: a nicely-​sized, two-​floor space with pounding beats and your typical mélange of Brooklyn twinks, bears, and trash queens. But that’s just where the problem lies with Lovegun: everything is typical.
Average, weak drinks, expected mixes, go-​go boys you wish had gone-​gone to the gym-​gym, and beyond that, a disappointing not-​much-​else.
Choose to dance, and you barely have room (the experience is rather like trying to dance at the Boiler Room, only with a more expensive drink in your hand, and fewer people suspecting you’re on something). Choose to sit, and do so right next to the dance floor, where you can’t hear what anybody’s saying.
Lovegun tries to straddle the polish of midtown’s mega clubs, the hard-​earned ennui of Chelsea’s gay scene, and the grit, grime, and mischief of the East Village’s gay dives — but with as much success as an inexperienced Amish virgin.
The best thing Lovegun has going for it, is its crowd. And they deserve better.

Brooklyn’s NEWEST club is… shitty.
It doesn’t have everything… unless everything you want is feeling like you’re in a cramped, expensive Manhattan gay bar. Bad crowd, usually a cover, tries to be a hybrid dive/​club but is sub par at both. Brooklyn needs better gay bars but not this kind :/