Upg Events – Gay London Life – Celebrate Your Scene

Contents:

• THE BT GAY BARS LONDON
• WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB TURNS 20: ‘NO-ONE HAD SEEN PLAYERS LIKE BEFORE’
• LONDON GAY CISE CLUBS

THE BT GAY BARS LONDON

Regular events clu karaoke, drag shows, Wt End sgers and a regular gay cisg club schle of fetish nights the The Unrground also 12pm – 12am, MONDAY – WEDNESDAY 12pm – 1am, THURSDAY – FRIDAY 12pm – 2am, SATURDAY 12pm – 3am WebseDirectnsCentral Statn Area:. In May 2021, Queer Bra, the UK’s first mm dited to LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bi, trans, queer) history and culture, opened the Kg’s Cross area of London. And ’s not before time: same-sex marriag were celebrated here om 2014, gay puter scientist Alan Turg featur on our £50 note, and many mms and attractns London have LGBTQ+ themed events, trails, and exhibs.

NOTE: The word ‘queer, ’ once a homophobic term, has a rich recent history of beg ed posively, particularly for younger generatns, as an umbrella term to refer to non-straight and non-genr-nformg inti. Lus (1926-2014) – civil servant by day and chronicler of London’s gay unrworld by night.

WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB TURNS 20: ‘NO-ONE HAD SEEN PLAYERS LIKE BEFORE’

As the exhibn marks the 50th anniversary of London’s first Gay Pri march (as was lled then) 1972, there are photos and memori of early pris.

You n read books the small library, curated by Gay’s The Word, Bra’s olst LGBTQ+ bookshop based nearby Bloomsbury. I’ll fish wh a quote om London’s first openly-gay celebry, Quent Crisp:. Homans Bookshop at 5 Caledonian Road hoed the Gay Liberatn Front and Gay Swchboard the past.

The Central Statn (prevly known as the Prce Albert) Wharfdale Road is a well-known gay pub, and London Friend has s headquarters Caledonian Road.

LONDON GAY CISE CLUBS

Gay London, 1997 lists 23 tablishments Islgton and Kg's Cross. ”Many of Marshman’s theatre projects – cludg Move Over Darlg, about gay Bristolians – beg when he gets out his bt cha. Someone talked about phong Gay Swchboard as teenager and not sayg a word – jt wag on the le and beg too petrified to speak.

The Granary Square tenancy is ially for two LGBTQ+ mm will be loted on the ground floor of 2 Granary Square Kgs Cross, the buildg owned by the Art Fund chary Photo: © David Levene The mm director is Joseph Galliano, the chief executive of Queer Bra and former edor of Gay Tim. Photographer Robert Taylor is among the Bra’s archive is currently hoed at the Bishopsgate Instute near Liverpool Street statn, which also holds a vast lbian and gay news media archive and a library of around 10, 000 LGBTQ tl. “Queer Bra’s llectn is looked after by the Bishopsgate Instute; they [Bishopsgate] will ntue wh buildg their own LGBTQ+ llectn as well, ” the Queer Bra spokman UK mms also have signifint LGBTQ archiv cludg Natnal Mms Liverpool—enpassg objects such as flyers and lerature lked to key gay UK events and clubs—and the Victoria and Albert Mm London, which ntas a range of objects lked to LGBTQ history.

Osr’s Cema was operatg sce around 2000 as a Gay male adult cema.

First gay gby club found 20 years ago. The first time Mark Bhell and his all-gay gby team led up agast a straight si, he was overe by a sense of his own masculy.

For much of his life, the Brish lawyer had been told that beg gay somehow ma him ls of a man. Yet standg shoulr-to-shoulr wh his gay teammat, he felt liberated.

“So I really enjoyed playg gby agast straight men, wh my gay teammat, bee for me kd of proved that we were jt as mascule as they were – that we n be jt as physil as they are. Bhell was one of the early players to jo the Kgs Cross Steelers, the world’s first gay gby club, which this year celebrat s 20th anniversary.