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It’s been ten years sce Eclipse, Cornwall’s only gay club closed, but there’s great news for the unty’s LGBT+ muny and everyone who wants a good night out.

There is not a signated night at any club Cornwall for the LGBT+ muny so is agreed that such an event has long been need, pecially sce Tro’s gay bar Déjà Vu closed a uple of years ago. Booze, “wacky” adventur, and a safe space which to exprs your te self: the are some of the thgs which Cornwall’s LGBT muny are missg out on now that the era of the unty’s gay clubs has passed. Wh the closure of Tro’s Deja Vu, and before that the Eclipse, among many others, ten years ago - lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and other members of the LGBTQ+ muny are whout a nighttime space to ll home.

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Shn Hill, a re worker om St Columb Road who briefly fled Cornwall his early 20s to explore the slightly more excg-soundg Manchter, said growg up gay Cornwall now mt be tricky whout an LGBT night scene. His first experience wh a gay club was a night lled lled Pki, hosted on a Friday and Saturday at Sandridge Hotel, Newquay, years ago.

’ - I me out as bi knowg I was gay, but was slightly ls of a blow to e out as bi.

” Shn’s experienc wh gay clubs Cornwall certaly did not end wh Pki. ” Abbie, who has also lived Penzance and Essex, said even the goln era of gay clubs the unty - there was never a huge amount of choice. ” Pl Philip, 45, who scrib himself as Cornish through and through - and “100 per cent gay” - said the unty has never had the largt selectn of clubs to choose om.

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Pl also spoke about the bad tim, and the homophobia which unfortunately led to the shuttg down of several clubs.

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“There was still that whole prejudice of beg gay. “Even on the other nights, when the gay night wasn’t on, there was a ck.

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” At another club, Frisbe Newquay, which had a gay bar on the top floor, he relled a woman enterg wh her male partner and llg two men kissg “disgtg.

“Gay clubs will let straight people , too, and the number of hen nights at gay clubs… “We’re here bee we’re a muny, when groups of straight women go feels like ‘hang on a mute, this isn’t how should feel. ’ “But, part of what has wiped out gay clubs is that we’re jt more accepted everywhere else. ” Somethg all of the ex-clubbers all agreed on was the importance of gay clubs for such a ral unty, which is somethg Cornwall Pri aniser Matthew Kentworthy was keen to highlight.

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Matthew, who has been a part of the anisatn sce 2016, said that visibily is more than jt a buzzword - ’s a lifele for the gay muny. ” This isolatn, he add, is somethg a face-to-face safe social space like a gay club was for LGBT people Cornwall.

” He add that part of the reason for the cle of the venu is how few openly gay young people there are Cornwall: “Younger people look at beg queer and they don’t always see Cornwall as somewhere they want to stay. ” Simon Hill (no relatn to Shn), who works for South Wt-wi LGBT chary Inter Tst, and has done a huge amount of work on LGBT history Cornwall, add that gay bars like Eclipse were not the first of their kd by any means. The first official Cornish gay club, to his knowledge, was set up by a man lled Trevor Port, who was one of the people marchg at the first London Pri 1972.

Havg worked wh Queer Kernow, an anisatn dited to chartg LGBT history the unty, Simon has been gatherg oral histori om olr gay men Cornwall. “But shut down after four years - the people on the other nights would not e the same glass which had been ed by gay people, or s on the same seats - bee of Aids. “It ed to be the Portugue embassy, and on a Saturday night Bill the barman - a gay as anythg short, round ltle chap - would n a gay night.

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There’s somethg tangible about a gay bar which is impossible to exprs to someone.

” Lookg ahead, there are no known plans to reopen a full-time gay club Cornwall.

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The owners of Cornwall’s only lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) venue have said they have been forced to sell up partly bee of the cisn to relote Cornwall Pri away om Tro. “Sadly hasn’t been massively supported by the gay muny Cornwall and the Pri cisn was the fal nail the ff. fd gay venu/events near me.

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