The Backstreet is located about a mile west of the south end of the Strip, very close to one of the off-strip casinos, the Orleans.
     The bar has a nice western decor (and a bunch of video power machines, since this is Vegas), and the dance floor is a decent size, but not quite rectangular in shape.  Unfortunately, although I’ve been there several times on weekends at what would be prime dancing hours, the bar has often been either near deserted or hosting a rodeo drag show, with at best a few line dances between numbers.  *shrug*  One of the bartenders indicated that things may be better during the week, or on Sundays with their popular beer bust.  (But I was there for the first hour of the beer bust in July, 2001: 40-50 people in the bar, a DJ playing decent music, and not a single person on the floor.  Go figure.)
     Line dance lessons are held on Wednesdays and Thursdays, taught by Dave, with Wednesdays being for more intermediate/advanced dances.  Wednesday night lessons are from 7:30-9:00, and Thursday night ones are from 7:00-9:00.  Couples lessons are taught by Tom on Fridays from 7:00-9:00. To my knowledge, lessons are free.
     Tuesday night finds square dancing with Neon Squares.  Thursday has a reputation as women’s night.  The fourth Friday of the month is an NGRA (gay rodeo) fundraiser.  And Sunday afternoon from 4:00-7:00 is a popular beer bust.

     Badlands is located in Commercial Center, a large strip mall about a mile east of the Strip, off Sahara near Maryland.  Several other gay bars and the Apollo bathhouse are also in Commercial Center.
     The bar has a small dance floor (maybe 12' x 15') at the back of the bar, and there has been country music playing the couple of times I’ve been in there, but I’ve yet to see anyone make a move toward using the dance floor.  As with Backstreet, Vegas is an odd town, so what might be prime dance time elsewhere may not be in Neon City.

     I visited Bad Dolly’s once, in early May of 1999, but I missed the dance night.  I recall the dance floor as small (but not postage stamps size), and the bar as being a women’s bar the rest of the week, which might mean a gender imbalance on the nights they have country-western music (or it might not).