Gay Belfast | Bars, Pubs & Clubs | Belfast & Northern Ireland

Contents:

• KEEP GAY
• THE BEST BELFAST GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BELFAST
• BELFAST: GAY AND LBIAN
• GAY AREA BELFAST
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG COUNSELLORS BELFAST, NIR
• A CENTURY AND MORE OF BELFAST GAY LIFE
• LGBT: 'THERE'VE ALWAYS BEEN GAY PEOPLE THE UNTRYSI'
• GAYT PLAC IN MAE FOR 2020
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS BELFAST, ME
• BELFAST: GAY AND LBIAN
• GAY LIFE BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND
• BELFAST GAY MAP
• BELFAST GAY SNAS

KEEP GAY

Kreml, Unn Street and Maverick are Belfast's three Gay nightlife venu.

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THE BEST BELFAST GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BELFAST

The annual Outburst Queer Arts Ftival is packed wh theatre, film, mic, visual art and discsns which explore and celebrate lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr stori and experienc.

Belfast's bt gay bars and clubs are loted the cy's Gay Quarter area, north of the cy centre on the edge of the Cathedral Quarter.

The cy’s most famo gay club is probably Kreml on Donegall Street. A huge variety of theme nights, celebry performanc and the iendlit up-for- clubbers giv Kreml the reputatn of beg the bt gay venue Ireland.

BELFAST: GAY AND LBIAN

Maverick Bar on Unn Street is a popular gay bar, well-loved for s eclectic live mic nights and edy shows.

Gay-iendly bars clu Muriel’s Café Bar on Church Lane and The Spaniard on Skipper Street. Head to Boombox Belfast on Donegall Street the Gay Quarter. The Belfast LGBT Centre is loted at 23-31 Warg Street Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter, which ho a number of chari cludg the Rabow Project and Cara Friend, providg unsellg, beiendg, rmatn and a health and social space for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny.

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GAY AREA BELFAST

Unn Street Bar (and Rtrant): Belfast's trendy award wng gay bar open daily om 12 noon til late. transformed to Belfast's Newt Gay venue.

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LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG COUNSELLORS BELFAST, NIR

Open every Box: The newt gay club Belfast, suated bi the Maverick Bar. Gay Cork.

A CENTURY AND MORE OF BELFAST GAY LIFE

Gay Dubl. Elska Magaze, a publitn dited to revealg the bodi and voic of gay muni around the world, has put the spotlight on Belfast, Northern Ireland for s latt issue. Particularly wh regard to LGBTQ life, Belfast has a bourgeong gay scene, takg off at long last perhaps part due to havg fally won some battl toward equaly.

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LGBT: 'THERE'VE ALWAYS BEEN GAY PEOPLE THE UNTRYSI'

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GAYT PLAC IN MAE FOR 2020

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LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS BELFAST, ME

In May 1973 merged wh the lol GLF group to form Belfast Gay Liberatn Society. In May 1997 an off duty RUC police officer was the gay Parliament Bar Belfast when he was shot ad by an unintified assass om the Irish Natnal Liberatn Army.

BELFAST: GAY AND LBIAN

There are a number of gay bars, many of them ncentrated the Cathedral Quarter. Ulster Tans is a lol gay-iendly gby team.

GAY LIFE BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND

Gay Belfast. ↑ Blood on the Dancefloor: The gay police officer murr which shocked NI BBC May 2023. A CENTURY AND MORE OF BELFAST GAY LIFE – Northern Ireland’s gay geography, history and people: 1903-2021.

Acrdg to Roger Casement’s diari, of 1903 and 1910-11, the gay cisg areas Belfast were at the Albert Clock probably around the Ctoms Hoe toilet, Botanic Garns, Orme Park, and the Giants Rg. The blackout om 1939, and the arrival om 1943-4 of 100, 000 Amerin troops Northern Ireland had a huge impact and a special place gay memori. The Royal Avenue (RA) Bar Rosemary Street (the hotel’s public bar, oppose the Red Barn pub) as portrayed Mrice Lech’s fe 1965 novel The Liberty Lad, probably the earlit scriptn of a gay bar Irish lerature, was the first the cy.

Meanwhile the Gay Liberatn Society (GLS) was meetg at Queen’s Universy Stunts Unn om 1972 wh signifint town as well as gown membership. Later om about 1975 until the early 1980s ran highly succsful Saturday night diss the McMordie Hall, attend by up to 300 gays (and ed many apparent straights). The early and mid-70s were the most btal years of the troubl, when there was next to no night life the cy and only gays ventured out for fear of murr.

BELFAST GAY MAP

The Strasbourg se taken by Jeff Dudgeon to the European Court of Human Rights, which 1982 ultimately rulted the endg of life imprisonment for gay men and was the first European regnn of gay rights, was started by NIGRA 1975. From about 1975 until the early 1980s, Gay Lib or the QUB Gay Liberatn Society (GLS) met No. From there was anised the succsful se at Strasbourg agast the Brish Government fund by the Queen’s diss and the later-married pop sger Tom Robson (Glad to be Gay and Motorway).

1976 was also the year of the totally unexpected gay raids when all the NIGRA and Cara-Friend mtee were arrted and the Director of Public Prosecutns (DPP) cid to charge Jeff Dudgeon and Doug Sobey, and Richard Kennedy and another (for sex acts ter se). This was bee crimalised all gay male sexual activy wh a possible sentence of life imprisonment for buggery, and two years jail for any other sexual act (“gross cency”) thereby terferg wh the right to a private life.

A year later a reluctant Brish ernment phed an Orr Council through Wtmster legalisg certa gay sexual activy wh an age of nsent of 21. The Chart Rooms Lower North Street was the first gay-n bar Belfast.

BELFAST GAY SNAS

(Ernie and Jim were both procsed through the urts October 1967 and jailed or mted to a mental hospal along wh a dozen others the last big round-up of gays Bangor. Off and on the 1970s and 80s, the Europa’s Whip and Saddle bar Great Victoria Street was the cy’s only gay venue.

2011), a gay staffer’s, the Crow’s Nt Skipper Street beme a gay bar wh a small dis om c.