Fotten 1990s gay scene 'brought to life' by club photographer - Liverpool Echo

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• THE 5 BEST LIVERPOOL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LIVERPOOL
• THE 5 BEST LIVERPOOL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LIVERPOOL
• GAY BARS IN LIVERPOOL
• THE STORY OF INIC LIVERPOOL GAY CLUB MASQUERA TO OPEN AT THE EPSTE THEATRE
• FOTTEN 1990S GAY SCENE 'BROUGHT TO LIFE' BY CLUB PHOTOGRAPHERSTUART LN RHOS DOCUMENTED THE LGBT+ SCENE LIVERPOOLLIVERPOOLECHOBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYOLIVER ADAMS19:08, 10 NOV 2021BOOKMARKCLUBBERS LIVERPOOL, 1994 (IMAGE: STUART LN RHOS)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!
• GAY UNED KGDOM
• THE WORLD'S BT GAY TRAVEL GUI
• GAY PARIS

THE 5 BEST LIVERPOOL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LIVERPOOL

Upgra your night out wh our list of the very bt gay bars Liverpool. While might not be a dited LGBTQI+ spot, Liverpool Naval Club is home to some of the top gay-iendly events the cy.

A firm favoure wh the Liverpool gay scene, The Masquera is a spot worth visg.

THE 5 BEST LIVERPOOL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LIVERPOOL

Ntled the btlg Victoria Street and hoed a Gra II-listed buildg, The Lisbon is a top spot the gay quarter, Liverpool.

Masquera – a play tellg a powerful and emotnal tale set an inic Liverpool gay club the 1980s – is g to the cy’s Epste Theatre this Autumn. Mike’s character, that’s his journey, he is gay om the offset he knows that, but the whole pot of the play is he’s tryg to fd himself and be fortable his te self.

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The Mazzie beme a safe haven a polil and cultural perd where beg gay was monised.

THE STORY OF INIC LIVERPOOL GAY CLUB MASQUERA TO OPEN AT THE EPSTE THEATRE

It offered many gay people an alternative fay who provid them wh the love and re that was ripped away om their Hunter Jon was such a fan of the origal bar he bought the rights to the name, revivg Masquera on Cumberland Street. A brand new productn of Masquera – a play tellg a powerful and emotnal tale set an inic Liverpool gay club the 1980s – is g to the cy’s Epste Theatre this Autumn. However, was equally btersweet as was also a time of pa when Aids was htg the gay muny.

What was like to be young and gay a hostile society.

The Epste Theatre is Gra II Listed and loted the heart of Liverpool cy centre, was named after the legendary gay Beatl’ manager and ‘Fifth Beatle’ Brian Epste. The first after-hours gay club Liverpool, weled an army of visors om Merseysi and across the untry for over two s, hostg a huge le-up of DJs, as well as a number of famo fac.

FOTTEN 1990S GAY SCENE 'BROUGHT TO LIFE' BY CLUB PHOTOGRAPHERSTUART LN RHOS DOCUMENTED THE LGBT+ SCENE LIVERPOOLLIVERPOOLECHOBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYOLIVER ADAMS19:08, 10 NOV 2021BOOKMARKCLUBBERS LIVERPOOL, 1994 (IMAGE: STUART LN RHOS)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!

This was a new ia at the time as up until then the gay scene had been very much separate the 1980s. The 58-year-old relled how, at the time, Liverpool gay clubs didn't have a 6am dance licence but, after Garlands was granted one, lols stopped travellg to the lik of Leeds and Manchter and started phg the pk pound to the cy. Openg 1998, the one-room venue was loved throughout the 90s and was known to be the cy’s olst gay bay.

The si door B&M r park led up a spiral stairse to the exclive Top Floor Gays club. In the 1990s, Top Floor Gays, also known to Southport lols as TFGs, provid a safe space for LGBT+ people to exprs themselv eely away om fear of discrimatn. The first after-hours gay club Liverpool, weled an army of visors om Merseysi and beyond for over two s.

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A photographer is brgg the history of Liverpool's gay nightclubs to life wh his excg new archive project. Stuart Ln Rhos, om Harrogate, a teacher by day, spent his nights the 1990s tourg the north and takg snaps si some of the untry's most famo lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr venu. READ MORE:Doorway hidn B&M r park once led to town's first gay club Stuart told the ECHO: "I’ve had the negativ sat on a shelf for the last 30 years.

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Liverpool's gay scene was one of Stuart's regular stops on his tour of the untry's nightclubs. Stuart wnsed first-hand the transformatn of Liverpool's gay nightlife scene, om a few whistle-stop statns to a btlg hub for Merseysi's queer muny.

Stuart said: "The 1990s was a pot time where you jt saw a boom the gay muny beg social mastream. Sudnly, breweri were vtg gay venu and sponsorg gay events bee they realised gay people like beer too.

He add: "In 1992, there were six gay venu across the cy. It jt shows the transformatn of the gay scene Liverpool and the north. "In a way, the book is beg a documentary of northern gay life the 1990s and the pot time when gay culture changed om the small bars the 80s to the mega clubs of the 90s.

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" Over the urse of Stuart's photography reer, he ptured untls photos of celebri who were regular patrons at gay venu. " Elsewhere, the book has ments and stori om some of the clubbers and punds who equented the gay scene and have sce rennected wh Stuart via his Instagram page. Every year July, thoands of people - lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, bary and alli - e to Liverpool cy centre to spend two days a wonl, rabow flag-ftooned celebratn of all beg ee to live our liv as ourselv.

It is easy to believe over that weekend that equaly has been achieved, that homophobia has been vanquished and that nobody is beg judged, bullied or discrimated agast bee of their sexualy.