Glasgow or Edburgh if you’re gay? - Stland Fom - Tripadvisor

Contents:

• GAY EDBURGH, STLAND | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH
• GAY EDBURGH: DISVER THE CY’S BT LGBTQ HOTSPOTS
• COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG COUNSELLORS EDBURGH, SCT
• GAY LIFE EDBURGH 1977 - 1980
• DISVER THE ULTIMATE GAY STLAND 10 DAYS ERARY
• GLASGOW OR EDBURGH IF YOU’RE GAY? - STLAND FOM
• GAY EDBURGH - ACMODATN
• EDBURGH GAY MAP
• THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EDBURGH

GAY EDBURGH, STLAND | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!

It’s a warm, welg cy, filled wh some of the most breathtakg sights Stland, om the famo Royal Mile the betiful Old Town to the by shoppg district of Prc Street where Edburgh’s gay neighbourhood, The Pk Triangle, is loted. Edburgh’s gay tablishments are varied.

If you’re a fan of drag, you’ll fd plenty of opportuni to wns drag performanc, play bgo, and partake siar activi at many of the cy’s most popular gay tablishments.

Whether you’re here for a month or jt a weekend, if you’re an LGBTQ traveller visg Edburgh, read on to disver the bt ways to explore the cy’s vibrant gay scene.

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To be gay Edburgh: Is LGBTQ iendly?

GAY EDBURGH: DISVER THE CY’S BT LGBTQ HOTSPOTS

Edburgh is a very gay-iendly cy.

The gay area Edburgh: The Pk Triangle. You’ll fd gay bars, pubs, and clubs mostly ncentrated on Broughton Street and towards the top of Leh Walk. Edburgh’s bt gay bars and clubs have relaxed atmospher, welg staff, and iendly patrons.

Open om 1:00 pm to 1:00 am, Habana Edburgh is the perfect venue to beg your night out around Edburgh’s gay scene. CC Blooms, named after the lead of the 1988 film Beach (played by Bette Midler), is one of the biggt gay clubs Edburgh. This sy bar is one of Edburgh’s longt-nng gay bars, known for s iendly atmosphere and reasonably priced drks (and also sponsors the Hot Sts, Stland’s first-ever LGBTQ football team).

COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND

Paradise Palms isn’t exactly a gay bar, but attracts a lot of LGBTQ patrons wh s funky r, creative dg optns, and drag baret. Victoria Bar is on Leh Walk, a 15-mute walk om the ma gay neighbourhood Edburgh.

This is another tablishment that isn’t specifilly a gay venue but is very gay-iendly and popular wh LGBTQ lols. It hosts a gay, dis-themed party (lled Hey QT) once a month. It has s roots march, celebratns, and monstratns of the late 1980s and 1990s, cludg the Lark the Park events that began as a prott agast Sectn 28, a seri of laws across Bra that prohibed promotns of homosexualy.

Gay hotels Edburgh.

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Gay-owned, gay-iendly or gay-popular, you’ll be given the most exquise service all the tablishments. Holiday Inn Exprs Edburgh is one of the clost hotels to the cy’s gay bars. While ’s not specifilly a gay hotel, the lotn is nvenient for those headg to the Pk Triangle, and you’ll likely n to other LGBTQ travellers here and strike up a nversatn.

GAY LIFE EDBURGH 1977 - 1980

Tigerlily isn’t jt a hotel popular among LGBTQ travellers – s downstairs bar and rtrant is also a known hotspot for LGBTQ lols (even though ’s not technilly a gay bar). Garlands Gut Hoe is a gay-owned B&B Leh, Edburgh.

Right next door to CC Bloom’s you’ll fd Pla, Edburgh’s longt nng gay bar.

In 1975 bgrapher Antonia Fraser wr there is ‘no reason not to assume the obv, ’ namely that he was gay. 1957: the UK ernment create a Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn. Male homosexualy remas a crime Stland and Northern Ireland.

DISVER THE ULTIMATE GAY STLAND 10 DAYS ERARY

It’s a self-help anisatn workg for the rights of homosexual men and women.

1972: SMG lnch Edburgh Gay Swchboard. They also hold the Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs at Edburgh Universy Stunt’s Unn.

1975: Stland’s first Gay Centre opens at 60 Broughton Street, Edburgh. 1977: the Glasgow Gay Centre opens on Schiehall Street.

GLASGOW OR EDBURGH IF YOU’RE GAY? - STLAND FOM

1980: Sttish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG) opens a Gay Club on Queens Crcent. 2002: The Homophobic Crime Le was started Glasgow. 2019: Stland’s Makar Jackie Kay (who has wrten of how she realised she was gay at 17, but felt unable to al wh this for some years after) pos a poem about Mary Queen of Sts givg birth for the new Edburgh Castle d gui.

This post has been amend to reflect more of Glasgow’s LGBT+ history, wh thanks to David Thomas, Former Director of Glasgow LGBT Centre, Lbian & Gay Swchboard and Wt of Stland LGBT Fom. For many years Stland jt did not do gay.

Homosexualy was dangero and taboo, and was actually agast the law right up to the 1980s.

GAY EDBURGH - ACMODATN

So how did a untry that seemed to take pri s prejudic end up wh the bt gay rights Europe?

"He says homosexualy was somethg fai, relig stutns, the medil profsn and society at large all chose to source, Elae LivgstoneImage ptn, San (left) and Gerrie Douglas-Stt had Nila Sturgeon and Patrick Harvie as wns at their weddg"Growg up queer post-war Stland is sentially occupyg a social and sexual wilrns, " Dr Meek of male homosexualy had been outlawed for centuri and were ma stricter the late 19th Century but same-sex ntact between women had never been targeted law and was not illegal. "Gay men were known to exist but they did not f the Sttish image of robt masculy.

Homosexual men were forced unrground to public toilets or illic Meek says: "The nsequenc of beg ught were signifint. You uld be sacked for a ht of homosexualy, never md a prosecutn. "Image source, Equaly Network/Same Love PhotographyImage ptn, Douglas Pretsell and Peter Gloster formalised their marriage SydneyPeople went to prison for sometim two years or were locked up psychiatric 1957, after a succsn of well-known men were nvicted of homosexual offenc, the Wolfenn report remend that "homosexual behavur between nsentg adults private should no longer be a crimal offence".

EDBURGH GAY MAP

"He saw homosexualy as the first step to moral turpu. "It took a for the remendatns of the Wolfenn report to be bee law England and Wal, crimalisg homosexualy for men over 21. But bee of Jam Adair, homosexualy Stland remaed illegal, classified as crimally-praved source, Getty ImagMany gay Sts had to rign themselv to a life the 1969, a brave group of gay Sts cid they uld not change their sexualy so they set out to change SMG (Sttish Mori Group) arranged diss and get-togethers for gay men and for lbian women.

The SMG started to make money and leased property Broughton Street Edburgh where set up the Gay Informatn Centre and operated a telephone, historian and gay activist Bob Cant says: "I thk the Sttish Mori Group serv an enormo amount of cred.

"Thirteen years after the law was reformed England, Labour MP Rob Cook lodged an amendment the Sttish Crimal Jtice Bill and homosexualy was fally crimalised Stland ptn, Leanne and Marie Banks were one of the first gay upl Stland to bee marriedThat saw an explosn of gay culture to the mastream. In Stland, the newly legalised gay men had a fantastic time. In Glasgow, the gay mec was mentator Damian Barr tells a BBC Stland documentary: "I uld not have imaged a place like this existed.

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I'd not even seen a gay club on film or on televisn. "Dpe the study relatg to dg addicts and the figur beg batable, homosexual sex was once aga portrayed as somethg to 1987 Margaret Thatcher's ernment went to war wh the gay source, Tged Memori / Equaly NetworkImage ptn, Joe Schofield (left) and partner Mallm Brown (right) were among the first to marry unr the new lawThe prime mister told the Tory nference: "Children who need to be tght the tradnal moral valu are beg tght that they have an alienable right to be gay.

"Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act 1988 prohibed "the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship".

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"There was outrage and protts across the untry at this rollg back of the rights of gay people but the law stayed place until the re-tablishment of the Sttish Parliament of s first acts was to repeal Sectn 28 but had a battle on s hands. Journalist David Torrance says that spe beg very unpleasant at the time was a "thartic" experience that got Stland talkg about gay rights issu and fally swept away the old the Millennium, Sts attus to homosexualy have changed dramatilly. Surveys suggt that more than two thirds of Sts actively approve of gay marriage and is now homophobia that is 2005, civil partnerships were ma legal for gay upl and the followg year same-sex upl were able to year, as the Commonwealth Gam was beg shown around the world, Stland clared s new openns wh a kilted gay kiss as part of the openg year end wh gay marriage beg legal Stland and the lear of the Sttish Conservativ, a lbian, passnately supportg the move.