ARCH | Clapham's LGBTQ+ cktail bar and gay social venue

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• THE BT GAY BARS LONDON
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW GAY MAP
• MOSW GAY BARS
• THE TWO BREWERS CLAPHAMLONDONMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEHOTELS · BUDGETGUTHO & B&BSHOSTELSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSLBIAN BARSCISE CLUBSSNASGAY SOHOMASSAGETHEATRECABARETSSHOPSGYMSCAF & RTRANTSSERVICATTRACTNSCY GUITOURSGAY MAPUK EVENTSGAY WEDDGSTHE TWO BREWERS CLAPHAM
• A LOVELY PLACE CLAPHAM (GAY AREA)
• GAY BARS AND PUBS CLAPHAM LONDON SW4
• LONDON GAY SNAS

THE BT GAY BARS LONDON

Proudly servg the LGBTQIA+ muny sce 1981, the legendary Two Brewers has been at the heart of London’s gay scene for 40 years. Really nice iendly gay bar Clapham.

John’s Hill, Clapham Junctn, London, SW11 1TT Telephone: 020 7223 6523 Webse Email Facebook Twter InstagramThe Clapham Grand is an penntly n venue which serv as a nightclub, live mic venue, theatre and event ’s super gay iendly, and hosts a wealth of LGBTQ+ shows and events, cludg regular – and hugely popular – Drag Shows, and is the London home of drag promoter Klub Grand also works wh queer party people Sk The webse for openg and event tails. London’s thrivg gay scene is world famo, om plh cktail bars, to rambunct drag bnch and everythg between.

The Two Brewers is a long-standg gay bar Clapham, and although might not look like much om the outsi, is home to legendary club nights, drag shows and quizz.

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Regularly toppg the charts as London’s favoure gay bar and club, Ku Bar is suated Cha Town. The Glory pris self beg one of east London’s bt gay bars, drag hotho, LGBTQ+ performance venu, nightclubs, and curators of London shows, ftivals, ntts and battl. Comptons of Soho Photo:, Shutterstock Comprisg of two bars and a quieter lounge area, Soho’s Comptons pub has been a staple the cy’s gay scene sce 1986.

Halfway To Heaven, Trafalgar Square Loted between Charg Cross Statn and Trafalgar Square, Halfway To Heaven is a tradnal gay pub and baret show bar wh a laid-back ground floor and club-like basement area.

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Kgs Arms, Soho Loted on Soho’s Poland Street and open sce the 1700’s, the iendly Kgs Arms was one of the first spots Soho to serve the gay muny, billg self as a ‘gentlemen’s bar’ the 1970’s. Officially a gay bar sce 1981, ’s now a firm favoure wh the LGBTQ+ muny – ‘bears’ particular – om London and around the world. From tablished legends of the gay scene to on that play baret and everythg between, there’s somethg for everyone here.

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The Two Brewers is a vibrant gay club, hugely popular wh Clapham lols and visors to the area alike. Good lotn: cy centre, another gay club (911) the nearby area and a gay iendly hostel next to stay (Inga Hotels). Homosexualy is legal, although a vaguely-word 2013 law prohibs the promotn of ‘non-tradnal’ relatnships.

As such, gay travellers are advised agast overt displays of their sexualy. That said, the vast majory of viss rema trouble-ee, even for visors who equent the cy’s ls-than-secret gay bar and club bt hotels MoswThe historic exterr of the Hotel Metropol, facg the ternatnally-celebrated Bolshoi Theatre and close to many of the other ma thgs to do Mosw, is nothg pared to s sumptuo terrs.

The rpeted terrs give this stay a homely ambience, which marri well wh breakfast – which is served your CrewiRemend hotels Gay Mosw - Mosw. There were queer bars along the ast, but they largely tered to cisgenr gay men. On one night, the Smallmans met a iend at a New Orleans gay bar.

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Mattson, who has extensively rearched recent chang gay bars, veloped his report om the gay bar listgs the Damron Gui, the longt-nng and only guibook that documents LGBTQ plac the natn. Overall, he found, gay bars cled by 36. So if you’re lookg at the pal of whe cis gay men vers the pal of whe, Black, brown, Asian, Lata, queer women, the dispary is huge.

THE TWO BREWERS CLAPHAMLONDONMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEHOTELS · BUDGETGUTHO & B&BSHOSTELSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSLBIAN BARSCISE CLUBSSNASGAY SOHOMASSAGETHEATRECABARETSSHOPSGYMSCAF & RTRANTSSERVICATTRACTNSCY GUITOURSGAY MAPUK EVENTSGAY WEDDGSTHE TWO BREWERS CLAPHAM

“When Tanya [the origal owner] me out, was the 1950s, early ’60s, and the bar she ed to go to was always gay men and gay women together bee she told that wasn’t legal.

[Tanya] always really enjoyed the pany of gay men and transgenr people, and even though she wanted the lbian space, she never unrstood why the whole gay muny uldn’t socialize wh each other. ’ The opportuny me along for a women’s night at Flix [a gay men’s bar] and I started that women’s night there 2001.

But we’re all women: Gay, straight, bi, trans, everythg, queer. That was my first experience at a gay nightclub. I don’t have to worry about gettg gay bashed or anythg like that.

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And I knew that was a gay bar. “When I was about 16 — my sister’s gay also — we had gone to this club San Anton, Texas, and was kd of the first time that I saw her like a peace a sense, like she was her own element. A sign on the enterance to A League of Her Own, loted the basement of the Gay Bar “Pchers” Washgton, D.

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But on the other hand, we have all the straight people that e bee they’re acceptg [of] all the gay people.

The gay people n go wherever they want, and the straight people have no problem g to this bar. So then when they do e back out, they you know, they e out more sporadilly vers the sgle lbians or queers, gay men.

So the difference between gay guys and lbians is that once lbians uple up, I don’t see them for six months. And unr that umbrella is lbian, gay and bi and trans.

LONDON GAY SNAS

Maybe gays are accepted more, but there’s nothg like the feelg of your own space where you know ‘I’m not gog to be judged if I e here.

Lbians ntributed to gay rights jt as much as anybody else, jt as much as gay men. ’ And the lbian bars and the gay bars, ’s important bee ’s a space where you n jt be yourself.