A Friendly Trip to Gay Cornwall

Contents:

• THE BEST CORNWALL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CORNWALL
• THE BEST CORNWALL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CORNWALL
• GAY CORNWALL TRAVEL GUI
• CORNWALL'S ONLY GAY BAR HAS BEEN PUT UP FOR SALE AND HERE'S WHAT THEY'RE BLAMGTHE BAR OWNERS SAY MOVG CORNWALL PRI CRIPPLED THEMRNWALLLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSWHAT'S ONBYCHRIS MATTHEWSCOURT REPORTER16:52, 12 SEP 2017UPDATED18:10, 12 SEP 2017BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWSIGN UP FOR OUR TRO NEWSLETTER AND YOU'LL NEVER MISS A BIG STORY AGAMORE 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 SIGN UP FOR OUR TRO NEWSLETTER AND YOU'LL NEVER MISS A BIG STORY AGAINVALID 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!
• LGBT HISTORY MONTH AND REMEMBERG CORNWALL'S LOST GAY CLUBS
• A FRIENDLY TRIP TO GAY CORNWALL
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CORNWALL
• THE BEST CORNWALL GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS CORNWALL
• GAY UNED KGDOM

THE BEST CORNWALL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CORNWALL

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— Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective. Gay Cornwall.

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.

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“Sadly hasn’t been massively supported by the gay muny Cornwall and the Pri cisn was the fal nail the ff. 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.

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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.

CORNWALL'S ONLY GAY BAR HAS BEEN PUT UP FOR SALE AND HERE'S WHAT THEY'RE BLAMGTHE BAR OWNERS SAY MOVG CORNWALL PRI CRIPPLED THEMRNWALLLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSWHAT'S ONBYCHRIS MATTHEWSCOURT REPORTER16:52, 12 SEP 2017UPDATED18:10, 12 SEP 2017BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWSIGN UP FOR OUR TRO NEWSLETTER AND YOU'LL NEVER MISS A BIG STORY AGAMORE 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 SIGN UP FOR OUR TRO NEWSLETTER AND YOU'LL NEVER MISS A BIG STORY AGAINVALID 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!

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.

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” 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.

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.

” 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.

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“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.

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” 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. ” This isolatn, he add, is somethg a face-to-face safe social space like a gay club was for LGBT people Cornwall.

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” 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.

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” 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.