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Contents:

• THE 10 BEST BRIGHTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BRIGHTON
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BRIGHTON & HOVE
• VISG GAY BRIGHTON, ENGLAND – THE GLOBETROTTER GUYS
• DISVER GAY BRIGHTON, ENGLAND
• GAY DATG BRIGHTON AND HOVE
• GAY PARKS NEAR ME
• GUI TO GAY FRIENDLY HOTEL BRIGHTON (2023 UPDATED)
• GAYT PLAC IN MICHIGAN FOR 2020
• BULLDOG BAR BRIGHTON, THE OLST GAY BAR BRIGHTON WHICH IS ONE OF THE BIGGT SUPPORTERS OF THE BRIGHTON RABOW FUND, HAS ANNOUNCED IS CLOSG S DOORS
• OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED
• HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

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

And one last fun fact: Brighton's first ever gay bar, The Bulldog, opened back 1979: and until s unfortunate closure, was the "go-to" place for Brighton-based LGBTQ folks.

The tour reveals the history of Brighton om a Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer perspective a lourful 90-mute walk along the beach and historic cy centre.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BRIGHTON & HOVE

Alongsi s ndy floss, kiss-me-quick and Carry On past – 1971’s Carry On at Your Convenience was partly filmed at the long-gone Clarg Hotel – Brighton tablished self as a hotspot of LGBTQ+ activism, hostg some of the UK’s first Gay Pri monstratns and vol anti-Sectn 28 a theatril type has succumbed to the cy’s lure, cludg Osr Wil and Lrence Olivier.

VISG GAY BRIGHTON, ENGLAND – THE GLOBETROTTER GUYS

Ground has now been broken on a new -pebbl 50m heated outdoor swimmg pool, surround by a new mi-village of fishg history-spired morn huts that nod to Nordic Queer QuarterBrighton’s gay village is ntled around Kemp Town’s St. Notable is sleek cktail space Affy Bar, owned by police officer-turned bow-tied publin Mike, which offers Icelandic ice bar-like lightg, a iendly mixed crowd and a penchant for qualy spirs, as well as drag ’s a ttament to the cy’s gay iendls that the venu oppose Brighton’s Gra I-listed Pier are floor-to-ceilg wdowed, out and proud and promently beach hut along the promena of Hove seaont, BrightonAlamyAnd there’s more over toward Hove, where you’ll fd the sy Bedford Tavern, snug drag venue The Grosvenor (cue Sondheim and sequs!

DISVER GAY BRIGHTON, ENGLAND

Addrs: Club Revenge, 32-34 Old Stee, Brighton BN1 1ELWebse: ParlourThe Plottg ParlourThis atmospheric, Gothic-dream-dér speakeasy-style cktail bar is perfectly placed a si street near the entrance to the Gay Village for a fill of sensatnal, mixologist-signed drks. They tra on a warm wele and, if you want to hear some gossip om gay Brighton gone by, this uld be jt the place…Addrs: The Kempton Klub, 75 St Gee’s Road, Brighton, BN2 1EFWhat to seeIronworks StudsJt a short hop om the ma statn and borrg the famo North Lae quarter, Ironworks is the cy’s Brighton Pri-owned, 170-seater LGBTQ+ performance space and TV stud.

GAY DATG BRIGHTON AND HOVE

Follow the footsteps of the early Gay Liberatn Front members, stand where some of the first legal civil partnerships took place, and explore the oft-fotten stori of figur cludg thor Aubrey Beardsley, 19th Century trans man Colonel Barker and Anne Lister, known as ‘the first morn lbian’.

Highlights clu the sty Adler typewrer on which the godfather of gay journalism Peter Burton documented s of queer history for Gay Tim and clothg worn by artist and genr-fluidy trailblazer Gluck.

GAY PARKS NEAR ME

Addrs: The Artist Rince, 33 Regency Square, Brighton, BN1 2GGWebse: more affordable optn, Snooze is a quirky stay about a ten-mute walk om the Gay Village, offerg retro-styled rooms rangg om 1970s nostalgia to vtage granur.

5Hotel room *** • Brighton Gay District • Wi-Fi • ParkgYHA Brighton★ 5Hotel room **** • Brighton Wi-Fi • Rtrant • BarBlanch Hoe★ 5Hotel room *** • Brighton Gay District • Wi-Fi • Adult OnlyBt rated LGBTQ+ hosts by our muny Brightonfortable room★ 5Private room • Brighton LGBTQ+ venu nearby • Breakfast clud • HeatgDrak Hotel★ 4. Brighton has long been known as the number one gay seasi rort the south of well as the ual tourists and visors Brighton also acts as a mag for lbians and gay men om all over the UK and abroad who are attracted by s bohemian atmosphere, easy gog attu and raffish air.

When to gay statns the UK, the inic and vibrant seasi town of Gay Brighton easily ranks the top 3 plac for LGBTQ travellers to head to – s reputatn as a gay statn preces self beg known as the unofficial gay pal of the UK rivallg the lik of Manchter, the gay pal of the North.

GUI TO GAY FRIENDLY HOTEL BRIGHTON (2023 UPDATED)

Whether you are lookg to experience one of the largt Pri celebratns the UK which hosts some serly big nam (Brney, Christa and Kylie have performed), experience the nightlife Brighton, relax on the gay beach or simply explore the lively town, surroundg ast or picturque untrysi, Brighton has somethg for everyone. From havg the hight percentage of same-sex hoeholds the UK to the timated 160, 000 Brighton Pri visors each year, the cy’s LGBTQ muny has ma Brighton the unofficial gay pal of Great Bra.

GAYT PLAC IN MICHIGAN FOR 2020

The Peers and Queers tour explor parts of Brighton’s lser-known gay history and illumat historic characters of the cy’s past cludg Osr Wil and Lord Byron.

BULLDOG BAR BRIGHTON, THE OLST GAY BAR BRIGHTON WHICH IS ONE OF THE BIGGT SUPPORTERS OF THE BRIGHTON RABOW FUND, HAS ANNOUNCED IS CLOSG S DOORS

“It’s fun that the Marqus of Queensberry, the father of Osr Wil’s boyiend, whose homophobia led to Wil’s imprisonment, has a pub named after him, which is now a gay pub. Brighton’s open-md approach has created one of the most vibrant and excg gay scen found anywhere the world, but while the wir LGBTQ muny the UK is aware of Brighton as an extremely popular gay statn, many are not aware how rich and plex the LGBTQ history of Brighton is.

Sce the UK marked the 50th anniversary of the partial crimalizatn of homosexualy 2017, a number of cultural projects discsg gay histori have been lnched, but for such a broad muny there are relatively few prehensive iativ examg LGBTQ histori. Gay life Brighton n differ om the experience found self-ntaed gay villag larger ci like London’s Soho or Manchter’s Canal Street, where outsi of the villag certa areas are ls gay-iendly than others. “Brighton’s gay scene is relatively small pared to bigger ci, and almost entirely owned by lol bsmen, but as far as I’m ncerned, every pub the cy is gay-iendly.

From The Bulldog, Brighton’s olst gay bar, to Club Revenge, which holds Brighton’s biggt lbian night, and bear bar The Camelford Arms, few are left out of the gay scene.

OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED

UK gay rights anizatn Stonewall published rearch earlier this year showg that 20 percent of LGBTQ people Bra have experienced a hate crime or cint over the past year. Some of the most vlent and egreg anti-LGBTQ attacks have taken place gay ‘safe havens, ’ wh some attackers sglg out the areas due to the high LGBTQ populatns. Olr LGBTQ people may not fd many spac that don’t predomately ter to younger people and disabled LGBTQ people n fd physil barriers to enterg gay-iendly venu.

HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

Even wh the problematic elements found gay villag, ’s still better to be an environment that, on the whole, let’s all typ of LGBTQ people live the life they choose whout fear of anti-LGBTQ hate. “Brighton is a te haven of acceptance for all people, cludg lbian, gay, bi, and trans folk, and tly pris self on beg somewhere where all people feel able to be themselv, ” says Matt Horwood, Senr Communitns Officer at Stonewall. The first Gay Pri para took place 1973, nsistg of a small ntgent of marchers, very much ntrast to the 200, 000 revelers who nverge on the cy the days for one of the largt Pri ftivals the untry.