A Gui To Gay London for LGBTQ Travelers

Contents:

• GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS
• THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
• GAY LONDON · ATTRACTNS
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON

GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS

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It's no secret that Soho is the ma gay district London, and this sizeable and central area of the pal is ltered wh fantastic gay clubs, bars, and gay-iendly hotels.

THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON

The nightclubs and bars the gay East London hotspots of Dalston and Haggerston are cidly edgier than those central’s Soho. If you’re cravg a ls high-octane eveng, be sure to vis the Royal Vxhall Tavern, which wears the crown as London’s olst gay bar.

Follow on om a swim wh a drk at the nearby Kg William IV, one of the cy’s olst gay pubs. Gay Amerin artist Dennis Severs spent 20 years turng his home to a livg mm, wh the townhoe’s 10 rooms reprentg snapshots the life of an imagary fay between 1724 to 1914. Addrs: Gay’s the Word, 66 Marchmont Street, London, WC1N 1ABWebse:!

Where to go at nightRoyal Vxhall TavernOne of London’s olst survivg gay venu, the Royal Vxhall Tavern has been an entertament statn sce the 1860s. Heaven, Charg CrossHands down the biggt and most famo gay club central London. Highlights clu the John Waters-spired lbian theme night Female Trouble; the d-visual queer spectacular Outré Voyage, the male-centric mic nights Homodrop and Dissodoma, the by-femm/for-femm monthly Femmi-Errect, and the hedonistic Happy Endgs, which turns Superstore’s unisex loos to a pop-up rave.

GAY LONDON · ATTRACTNS

In Hackney Wick, near the Olympic Park, the monthly gay rave Chapter 10 is at Bloc and Pxssy Palace tak place at Mick’s you need fuel on your night out, Dalston is packed wh late-night eateri. Wh more gay bars per square e than any other area, Soho is buzzg on any night of the week.

They clu Admiral Dunn, a historic pub wh drag shows most nights of the week; Ku Bar, a cktail lounge and club popular wh gay men; the lbian bar She Soho and the big urtyard bar The Yard. Drag llective Ltle Gay Brother throws a Sunday daytime rave at Fabric. AlamyVxhallLook south of the river for some of the bt gay clubbg London.

THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON

Although there have been high-profile closur recent years, remas a clubbg hotspot – particularly popular wh gay the banks of the Tham the south-wt of the cy, Vxhall has a history of entertament. Bootylic, a monthly night at Unn, is the biggt gay urban night around, playg aobeat, garage and dancehall. Collected om the 19th century, the archive — curated by the imable Stef Dickers — brims wh prs cuttgs, lbian pulp fictn, 90s gay mags, necsary documentatn of the HIV/AIDS crisis and Sectn 28 — and everythg between.

Gay's the word. Bookshop extraordaire: Gay's The Word.

The first of s kd, Gay's The Word Soho opened as the UK’s first dited LGBTQ+ bookshop 1979. Persecuted Irish poet Osr Wil has a ff-shaped cigarette-holdg statue jt off Trafalgar Square (and plaqu around town, cludg one at Clapham Junctn statn), while gay breaker Alan Turg has a steel 'statue' Paddgton.

The first-ever gay rights monstratn, Highbury Fields 1970, is memorated wh a plaque too.

Keep an eye on their socials for nights llaboratn wh Gay Tim or Pengu Books, too.