A wide-angle fisheye photograph of a group of four friends laughing and posing at a Dyke Nite party in Tampa. The group is diverse in style, featuring vibrant outfits including a lime-green animal print shirt and a sheer black mesh top. They are throwing peace signs and hand gestures toward the camera under dim, red-tinted club lighting. The background shows a crowded, high-energy dance floor at an indoor venue like Crowbar in Ybor City.
Dyke Night at Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on Dec. 14, 2024. Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Dyke Night organizers are taking every chance to throw parties at Crowbar as the venue approaches its final months in the district. The latest will be soundtracked with industrial, goth, new wave, techno and more from mixtape maestro New Age Tension, DJ Maus, plus Sector.FM’s DJ Taína and DJ Spur.

Tickets for Goth Dyke Nite at Crowbar in Ybor City on Friday, May 1 are sold-out.

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This article appears in Apr. 23 – 29, 2026.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...