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• GAY SCENE - NEWQUAY FOM
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS NEWQUAY
• GAY BARS / CLUBS - CAN ANYONE REMEND ANY - NEWQUAY FOM
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS NEWQUAY
• GAY NEWQUAY (CORNWALL, ENGLAND)

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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. 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 to my girliend, and she was like ‘Come on then, let’s get you out.’ - 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. “I felt more fortable plac like Eclipse, I uld be myself whout gettg any grief.” 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. “It’s been so long, though I was sober most of the time.” 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.

Pl also spoke about the bad tim, and the homophobia which unfortunately led to the shuttg down of several clubs. “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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“There was always nflict wh the straight lols on a Thursday night.” 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.” “I didn’t re, partly bee I was one of the two men makg out, I jt said: ‘I’m not here for you, love’!” He also said he’s not optimistic the clubs uld return: “It’s a cultural thg, you n go to a straight place now. “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. “It is bter sweet, yeah.” 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.

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. The most challengg thg, pecially recently wh Covid, has been how hard is to be alone.” This isolatn, he add, is somethg a face-to-face safe social space like a gay club was for LGBT people Cornwall.

It always felt a ltle b lolised than a bigger space - a ltle b more anonymo.” 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. It’s difficult, don’t always feel young here.” 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.

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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.” Saddle Tramps closed down after lols boytted , and for many years LGBT people Cornwall have equently driven to Plymouth, Simon add.

GAY NEWQUAY (CORNWALL, ENGLAND)

“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.” The Arts Club, as the name suggts, emerged om the arts scene Wt Cornwall, which was largely ma up of LGBT people.

There’s somethg tangible about a gay bar which is impossible to exprs to someone. “No one would know me or if they did they were there for the same reason.” Lookg ahead, there are no known plans to reopen a full-time gay club Cornwall. 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.