'I thk we were a real eye-opener': How Gay Village club Cz 101 changed the cy - Manchter Eveng News

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• MANCHTER GAY NIGHTCLUB SAYS 'WILL NOT TOLERATE' ABE AFTER STAFF MEMBER POSTED RACIST MEME ONLECZ 101, BASED THE HEART OF THE GAY VILLAGE, SAID DO 'NOT NDONE ANY FORM OF RACISM'MENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYJAM HOLTREPORTERTHOMAS GEENEWS REPORTER16:28, 5 FEB 2022UPDATED16:46, 5 FEB 2022BOOKMARKCZ 101 ON PRCS STREET (IMAGE: GOOGLE MAPS)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE 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 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID 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!
• 'I THK WE WERE A REAL EYE-OPENER': HOW GAY VILLAGE CLUB CZ 101 CHANGED THE CY'WE TRY TO DO EVERYTHG WE N TO ENSURE WE PROVI A SPACE THAT N BE ED BY EVERY ASPECT OF OUR MUNY'MENBOOKMARKSHAREWHAT'S ONBYADAM MAIDMENTREPORTER18:58, 22 MAY 2022BOOKMARKGAY VILLAGE BAR CZ 101 CELEBRAT S 30TH BIRTHDAY THIS MONTH (IMAGE: CZ 101)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE 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 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID 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!
• A MANC’S GUI TO: THE GAY VILLAGE, MORE THAN JT A LATE-NIGHT PARTY DISTRICT
• GAY VILLAGE SANTA CZ
• CLONEZONE: REWARD OFFERED OVER GAY VILLAGE SHOP ATTACKS
• ALL ABOUT MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE
• GAY VILLAGE – MANCHTER
• GAY SANTA CZ TRAVEL GUI
• 'I THK WE WERE A REAL EYE-OPENER': HOW GAY VILLAGE CLUB CZ 101 CHANGED THE CY'WE TRY TO DO EVERYTHG WE N TO ENSURE WE PROVI A SPACE THAT N BE ED BY EVERY ASPECT OF OUR MUNY'MENBOOKMARKSHAREWHAT'S ONBYADAM MAIDMENTREPORTER18:58, 22 MAY 2022BOOKMARKGAY VILLAGE BAR CZ 101 CELEBRAT S 30TH BIRTHDAY THIS MONTH (IMAGE: CZ 101)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE 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 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID 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!
• TENERIFE GAY BARS & CLUBS
• GAY MANCHTER

MANCHTER GAY NIGHTCLUB SAYS 'WILL NOT TOLERATE' ABE AFTER STAFF MEMBER POSTED RACIST MEME ONLECZ 101, BASED THE HEART OF THE GAY VILLAGE, SAID DO 'NOT NDONE ANY FORM OF RACISM'MENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYJAM HOLTREPORTERTHOMAS GEENEWS REPORTER16:28, 5 FEB 2022UPDATED16:46, 5 FEB 2022BOOKMARKCZ 101 ON PRCS STREET (IMAGE: GOOGLE MAPS)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE 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 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID 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!

A gay nightclub Manchter has said 'will not tolerate' abe after a member of s staff posted a racist meme onle. Popular club Cz 101, based the heart of Manchter's gay village, took to social media to say do 'not ndone any form of racism'.

"Be that racism, transphobia, homophobia or anythg else.

Jt six years earlier, the bars neighbourg Cz had been raid by police on an almost-weekly basis attempts to tch gay men and arrt them for gross cency.

'I THK WE WERE A REAL EYE-OPENER': HOW GAY VILLAGE CLUB CZ 101 CHANGED THE CY'WE TRY TO DO EVERYTHG WE N TO ENSURE WE PROVI A SPACE THAT N BE ED BY EVERY ASPECT OF OUR MUNY'MENBOOKMARKSHAREWHAT'S ONBYADAM MAIDMENTREPORTER18:58, 22 MAY 2022BOOKMARKGAY VILLAGE BAR CZ 101 CELEBRAT S 30TH BIRTHDAY THIS MONTH (IMAGE: CZ 101)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE 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 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID 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!

The retirement of Chief Constable of Greater Manchter Jam Anrton 1991 - who once scribed gay men as ‘swirlg a csp of their own makg’ - only helped wh that optimism. “We stggled to get a licence om the very begng bee the uncil uldn’t unrstand how there uld possibly be a need for a place so big for gay men to go to, ” general manager Gerrard Woods, who has been wh the club sce 1993, told the Manchter Eveng News.

Cz 101 was scribed as beg one of the first mercial clubs to open the gay village. I thk we were a real eye-opener for the gay muny. Named Queer As Folk, the show chronicled the liv of a group of gay men livg and socialisg Manchter's gay village - and was ccial that was filmed on lotn.

“Cz was pretty much exclively gay male and was like that for a few years, ” Gerrard says.

A MANC’S GUI TO: THE GAY VILLAGE, MORE THAN JT A LATE-NIGHT PARTY DISTRICT

“When Queer as Folk me out, the whole area had a rebirth and beme more mercially available to all sectns of society and not jt the gay muny. "There was still que a lot of homophobia at the time and was difficult for some sectns of the gay muny to wele the change of vibe.

GAY VILLAGE SANTA CZ

“We have a sort of equaly terms of gay and straight people socialisg but we need to make sure we’re makg sure we’re clive of other margalised parts of our muny. There are also some sectns wh the gay muny that still have issu wh race too. “Back the 90s, gay clubs were seen as trendy plac to go, ” Gerrard says.

CLONEZONE: REWARD OFFERED OVER GAY VILLAGE SHOP ATTACKS

Known for s late-night clubs and cheap drks als, the Gay Village is popular wh Manchter partygoers - but there's more gog on behd the scen.

Today, Manchter’s Gay Village is a verable party district. The neighbourhood has weled a gay clientele sce the 1940s, but, by all acunts, ’s only the past twenty years or so that thgs have really started to turn a rner, spe homosexualy beg crimalised 1967. An excerpt om Mancunian Gay magaze 1984 tled ‘Not tonight, Anrton’ tells the story of how one night 20 pla cloth officers stormed to Napoleons and forced everyone attendance to provi their personal rmatn before beg allowed to leave – an cint that was later brand as “an obv se of police victimisatn” a prs release issued by the Gay Centre.

ALL ABOUT MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE

In spe of this, the first Gay Pub and Club Olympics event (now thought of as the gural Manchter Pri) still went ahead on the Augt Bank Holiday weekend of 1985.

GAY VILLAGE – MANCHTER

Notably, had the support of a new generatn of Labour uncillors elected 1984 – who gave the gay muny their support and appoted Lbian and Gay officers. Inspired by Ken Livgstone‘s early days on the Greater London Council, those new uncillors created an Equal Opportuni Commtee and appoted Maggie Turner and Pl Fairweather what would prove a landmark move for gay rights the north of England.

1986 saw thgs gradually improve for the muny, as uncillors’ ‘put their arms around’ the gay muny, welg a Northern Pri event 1986 and ntributg public funds towards the celebratns. As the ’80s ntued, Manchter’s fight for gay rights ntued wh the Sectn 28 march 1988 actg as a huge turng pot as the Thatcher ernment’s dranian legislatn brought people out onto the streets to prott their drov.

GAY SANTA CZ TRAVEL GUI

Still, wasn’t until the early neti that the Gay Village weled s first openly-gay bar and even then police raids the area ntued right up to 1994.

'I THK WE WERE A REAL EYE-OPENER': HOW GAY VILLAGE CLUB CZ 101 CHANGED THE CY'WE TRY TO DO EVERYTHG WE N TO ENSURE WE PROVI A SPACE THAT N BE ED BY EVERY ASPECT OF OUR MUNY'MENBOOKMARKSHAREWHAT'S ONBYADAM MAIDMENTREPORTER18:58, 22 MAY 2022BOOKMARKGAY VILLAGE BAR CZ 101 CELEBRAT S 30TH BIRTHDAY THIS MONTH (IMAGE: CZ 101)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE 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 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID 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!

The battl agast stutnal homophobia were still beg fought, clearly, and some ntued to ll the Canal Street area ‘Satan’s Square Mile’ – but the openg of new nightclubs like Cz 101 and semal events Electric Chair and Poptastic saw the muny phg back. Repurposed at the end of the Indtrial Revolutn to a gay quarter that has sce bee one of the most famo the world, Manchter has a lot of thgs to be proud of – and the village is fely up there wh the bt.

Habha – A hidn foodie gem the heart of the gay village, the Ethpian rtrant Habha ss above a pretty n-of-the-l takeaway and is que easy to miss. Read more: The Ethpian rtrant hidn above a takeaway Manchter’s gay village.

TENERIFE GAY BARS & CLUBS

Napoleons – The olst gay pub the neighbourhood, Napoleon’s dat all the way back to 1941 and provis a safe space for trans people, crossdrsers and drag queens.

Churchills – Somethg of an stutn the Gay Village, Churchills always has a buzz about . Vanilla – The only lbian venue an unniably gay-domated neighbourhood, Vanilla is probably more nightclub than bar.

GAY MANCHTER

Cz 101 – This gay nightclub an old textile warehoe is ready to party seven days a week, wh a range of different nights playg everythg om cuttg-edge hoe to mercial floor-fillers and 80s, 90s and 00s classics. New York New York – From cktails the glam Queens Bar, to live baret, DJ sets and dancg ’til late the club, ‘Party Palace’ NYNY is open to party seven nights a week A safe, iendly, welg space for all, ’s sat the heart of the Gay Village for over thirty years.

Osrs – This timate, theatre-style gay bar shows film clips om a mix of classic and morn mils and offers live mic om sgers and pianists on selected nights. The Eagle – This popular men-only gay club gets packed wh guys, all of whom pretty much e for a siar thg. G-A-Y – A lbian and gay club known for blastg out the pop tun to the early hours, G-A-Y is one of the big fol pots of Canal Street and really is somewhere you n’t avoid endg up if you’re on a night out there.