Free Onle Library: Straight as folk ...; Bens Glasgow has bee a mec for gay clubbers - except on Tudays when gets all nventnal.(Featur) by "Daily Rerd (Glasgow, Stland)"; News, opn and mentary General tert
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- NIGHTCLUBBG 1980S – ON A HOT, HI-NRG JOURNEY AT GAY CLUB BENTS
- THE WATERLOO, THE VTNERS AND THE OTHER GO-TO GLASGOW GAY SPOTS OF YTERYEARWE LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE PLAC THAT BEME WELL KNOWN HNTS FOR THE CY'S GAY MUNY THE 70S AND 80S - WH SPECIAL MENTN TOO TO THE LEGEND WHO WAS BETTY HUTTONGLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCRAIG WILLIAMS14:15, 1 JAN 2019UPDATED19:38, 29 MAY 2020BOOKMARKTHE WATERLOO BAR IS GLASGOW'S OLST GAY PUB (IMAGE: FACEBOOK)GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW
- BT GAY BARS IN GLASGOW
- STRAIGHT AS FOLK ...; BENS GLASGOW HAS BEE A MEC FOR GAY CLUBBERS - EXCEPT ON TUDAYS WHEN GETS ALL NVENTNAL.
NIGHTCLUBBG 1980S – ON A HOT, HI-NRG JOURNEY AT GAY CLUB BENTS
Stland’s longt-nng gay club was created 1980, wh the muny fdg a wild and warm wele at Bents Glasgow. * bennetts gay bar glasgow *
HerageStland’s longt-nng gay club was created 1980, wh the muny fdg a wild and warm wele at Bents Barr was given the job of openg up the club above Topper’s Bar Glassford Street, Glasgow, where he was taken on as a bar man after a trip to the Job the club, lled Bents, remaed empty at the weekend as nightspots cludg the Warehoe Dunlop Street – which had an elevated dance floor – and Pzazz Royal Exchange Square pulled the smart was “bangg his head agast a wall” tryg to attract the punters, but nights out to hotel Bearsn where his gay iend Chris Davis played funk and dis rerds on a Sunday night paved a new route for Bents. PIC: Col asked Davis if he would e and do a gay night on a Tuday night the Cy Centre. He still didn’t know was a gay club.
"I told him was a gay club, ” Barr said. Pictured here are Vla Wills, sger of massive gay anthem Gonna Get Along Whout Ya Now and 'Gary Gay Stland'. ”Barr worked wh StsGay magaze and Durex to spread the preventn msage.
THE WATERLOO, THE VTNERS AND THE OTHER GO-TO GLASGOW GAY SPOTS OF YTERYEARWE LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE PLAC THAT BEME WELL KNOWN HNTS FOR THE CY'S GAY MUNY THE 70S AND 80S - WH SPECIAL MENTN TOO TO THE LEGEND WHO WAS BETTY HUTTONGLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCRAIG WILLIAMS14:15, 1 JAN 2019UPDATED19:38, 29 MAY 2020BOOKMARKTHE WATERLOO BAR IS GLASGOW'S OLST GAY PUB (IMAGE: FACEBOOK)GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
Bens, on Glasgow’s Glassford Street, is Stland’s olst gay club and was jt about ready to receive the last r before dive terventn me the form of Lyn Leisure, the sprg of this year. The club was almost a re of passage for gays of a certa age, but neglect meant was no longer the hotspot once was. But a few bshstrok here and there, new lightg and imagatn, Lyn has awakened this gay giant before he permanently nodd off. * bennetts gay bar glasgow *
”Barr went on to bee a key figure Glasgow’s nightlife scene and has owned numero pubs and clubs Glasgow, om Volno to Mass and The Edburgh, the gay scene was poundg at Fire Island, which was set up by Bill Grager 1978 what is now Waterstone’s on Prc Street. Posted on 12 years agoBens, on Glasgow’s Glassford Street, is Stland’s olst gay club and was jt about ready to receive the last r before dive terventn me the form of Lyn Leisure, the sprg of this year. The club was almost a re of passage for gays of a certa age, but neglect meant was no longer the hotspot once was.
But a few bshstrok here and there, new lightg and imagatn, Lyn has awakened this gay giant before he permanently nodd off. There are an timated 117, 000 gay people the greater Glasgow area, and only a actn of them venture out, and we want to turn that around by enticg them out to a club they knew and loved. This is, after all, a credible clubbg statn wh a history and a lot of affectn among Stland’s gay muny.
THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW
We look back at some of the plac that beme well known hnts for the cy's gay muny the 70s and 80s - wh special mentn too to the legend who was Betty Hutton * bennetts gay bar glasgow *
There’s no doubt that Bens need this shot the arm and Glasgow, que rightly for s size and stat, at long last has another credible gay clubbg statn, other than s arch nemis round the rner. Bent's Gay Bar.
is one of Glasgow's bt known gay dis's.
Glasgow's biggt and bt gay club sce opened 1981, Bent's had two rooms of low-l rnage, one wh the cheier si of dance and pop, while the basement regularly churned out hard techno and hoe, though was no stranger to melodic mastream dance eher. Thanks to plac such as Delmoni’s, Katie’s Bar, AXM and nights such as Hot Ms and Shoot Your Shot, Glasgow pre-lockdown had a thrivg gay pub and club scene. From a time when Glasgow uld be nsired a hostile place for the gay muny - and not jt bee the participatn homosexual acts was emed a crimal offence.
BT GAY BARS IN GLASGOW
Top Glasgow Gay Clubs & Bars: See reviews and photos of Gay Clubs & Bars Glasgow, Stland on Tripadvisor. * bennetts gay bar glasgow *
This meant that bars the 1960s were fairly discreet, until a gay scene appeared almost overnight the cy the early 1970s. Before then Glasgow’s gay scene was effectively centred around hoe parti - the most famo of which took place regularly at Novar Drive the Hyndland area.
STRAIGHT AS FOLK ...; BENS GLASGOW HAS BEE A MEC FOR GAY CLUBBERS - EXCEPT ON TUDAYS WHEN GETS ALL NVENTNAL.
Disver Glasgow's bt gay bars, om stylish cktail bars to fun-fuelled party havens wh karaoke and drag queens. Check out the very bt gay bars Glasgow has to offer and revel a night of mic, drks and all-night partyg the cy. * bennetts gay bar glasgow *
In the early 1970s, The De of Wellgton Argyle Street was one of the first pubs that was taken over by Glasgow’s LGBT+ muny, wh the Waterloo Bar next door also havg a reputatn of beg both gay (and prostute) iendly.
The Waterloo on Argyle Street, Glasgow's olst gay pub. "Betty was a larger than life character on the gay scene Glasgow when I first took my tentative steps onto the scene the early 1990's.
Meanwhile, 1980, the Sttish Homosexual Rights Group bought a premis at Queen’s Crcent to form a licenced Gay Club.