Edburgh Gay Map 2023 - gay bars, gay clubs, gay snas, hotels & more - Travel Gay

Contents:

• THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH
• THE EDBURGH PUB THAT WAS ‘HIDN’ EPICENTRE OF CY’S GAY SCENE 1970S
• GAY EDBURGH: DISVER THE CY’S BT LGBTQ HOTSPOTS
• THE ARE 5 OF THE BT GAY BARS TO CELEBRATE PRI EDBURGH 2019
• GAY BARS EDBURGH
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH
• EDBURGH GAY MAP

THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH

Rose Street's Kenilworth pub was Edburgh's 'origal gay bar' and among a select band of boozers that extend a warm wele to the pal's gay muny prr to the Crimal Jtice (Stland) Act of 1980 g to effect. The popular cy centre hnt was well-known as a place where homosexual men and women the cy uld meet up and mgle an era when beg openly gay uld technilly see you fed and even imprisoned.

READ MORE: Edburgh lols look back at cy's pneerg gay club Fire Island So famo was the Kenilworth, that 's even said mic legend and gay in Elton John vised 1976 - the year he revealed to the world he was bisexual. It was all a far cry om the vibrant gay scene that Edburgh boasts today, centred around the multu of LGBTQI+ venu that make up Greensi's famo 'pk triangle', but back the seventi the lik of the Kenilworth and the Nelson Hotel the New Town was pretty much all there was.

THE EDBURGH PUB THAT WAS ‘HIDN’ EPICENTRE OF CY’S GAY SCENE 1970S

He scribed the experience of disverg a gay-iendly pub back those days as revelatory. "The Kenilworth was really the first ma street bar that was openly gay and really showed that we were g out of the back streets and up ont and centre. For those the gay muny, this prented a b of a problem as there wasn't really anywhere else to go.

GAY EDBURGH: DISVER THE CY’S BT LGBTQ HOTSPOTS

"And that was where the gay muny met - Crawfords. " The Kenilworth's time as a gay pub fizzled out towards the end of the 1970s, as Edburgh's gay scene branched out and expand wh the openg of the Lghg Duck at Howe Street and the ground breakg gay nightclub Fire Island on Prc Street.

"It all changed though when there was a change management and the new people g weren't so gay-iendly. The Kenilworth had n s urse and sudnly there was a new bar on the block that was n by gay people. It’s a warm, welg cy, filled wh some of the most breathtakg sights Stland, om the famo Royal Mile the betiful Old Town to the by shoppg district of Prc Street where Edburgh’s gay neighbourhood, The Pk Triangle, is loted.

Edburgh’s gay tablishments are varied. If you’re a fan of drag, you’ll fd plenty of opportuni to wns drag performanc, play bgo, and partake siar activi at many of the cy’s most popular gay tablishments. Whether you’re here for a month or jt a weekend, if you’re an LGBTQ traveller visg Edburgh, read on to disver the bt ways to explore the cy’s vibrant gay scene.

THE ARE 5 OF THE BT GAY BARS TO CELEBRATE PRI EDBURGH 2019

To be gay Edburgh: Is LGBTQ iendly?

Edburgh is a very gay-iendly cy. The gay area Edburgh: The Pk Triangle.

You’ll fd gay bars, pubs, and clubs mostly ncentrated on Broughton Street and towards the top of Leh Walk. Edburgh’s bt gay bars and clubs have relaxed atmospher, welg staff, and iendly patrons. Open om 1:00 pm to 1:00 am, Habana Edburgh is the perfect venue to beg your night out around Edburgh’s gay scene.

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CC Blooms, named after the lead of the 1988 film Beach (played by Bette Midler), is one of the biggt gay clubs Edburgh. This sy bar is one of Edburgh’s longt-nng gay bars, known for s iendly atmosphere and reasonably priced drks (and also sponsors the Hot Sts, Stland’s first-ever LGBTQ football team). Paradise Palms isn’t exactly a gay bar, but attracts a lot of LGBTQ patrons wh s funky r, creative dg optns, and drag baret.

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Victoria Bar is on Leh Walk, a 15-mute walk om the ma gay neighbourhood Edburgh.

This is another tablishment that isn’t specifilly a gay venue but is very gay-iendly and popular wh LGBTQ lols. It hosts a gay, dis-themed party (lled Hey QT) once a month. It has s roots march, celebratns, and monstratns of the late 1980s and 1990s, cludg the Lark the Park events that began as a prott agast Sectn 28, a seri of laws across Bra that prohibed promotns of homosexualy.

THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH

Gay hotels Edburgh.

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Gay-owned, gay-iendly or gay-popular, you’ll be given the most exquise service all the tablishments.

Holiday Inn Exprs Edburgh is one of the clost hotels to the cy’s gay bars.

While ’s not specifilly a gay hotel, the lotn is nvenient for those headg to the Pk Triangle, and you’ll likely n to other LGBTQ travellers here and strike up a nversatn. Tigerlily isn’t jt a hotel popular among LGBTQ travellers – s downstairs bar and rtrant is also a known hotspot for LGBTQ lols (even though ’s not technilly a gay bar). Garlands Gut Hoe is a gay-owned B&B Leh, Edburgh.