How do known local “queer” bars and rooftop parties in Beirut, as a set of small specialized for-profit businesses, participate in shaping the gendered and sexual practices of those who frequent them? Some Lebanese activists and international LGBT rights NGOs often see the globalizing LGBT sexual identity categories as reflecting authentic self expressions and innate desires. Thus, the classification of non-normative gendered sexualities into these transnational categories is frequently naturalized, while simultaneously casting other transnational categories such as “Shemale” as politically improper. However, other factors play a significant role in the categorization of non-normative genders and sexualities in Lebanon. One such key factor is a local business deal between several bars in Beirut under which clients are classified into “Gay” and “Shemale” by employing ideas about respectable class and gender self-presentation, which in turn serves to grant or limit their entry. In response, the clients learn the codes of appropriate visibility and negotiate their classed and gendered self-presentation accordingly. In this paper I argue that disregarding this factor and the associated class dynamics of categorizing gendered sexualities reproduces an inadequate account of sexuality politics in Beirut. Rather, considering the process of gendered sexual identity categorization as an interaction between bars and clients reveals a complex set of gendered class dynamics that are integral to the construction of sexual identities and the negotiation of sexuality politics in Beirut today.