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Contents:

• THE BT GAY BARS LONDON
• THE 5 BT GAY BARS FORT LRDALE
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

THE BT GAY BARS LONDON

Though the number of LGBT+ venu London has seen a cle the last or so, the cy's gay scene isn't ailg yet – fact, a handful of excellent new venu have opened recent years around the cy.

The hight ncentratn of LGBT+ spac n still be found around Old Compton Street Soho, a former red light district that's been heavily gentrified recent years, but remas London's gay heartland. This Soho stalwart tends to attract a slightly olr crowd of gay guys and has a reputatn for beg cisy.

It’s closed on Mondays and Tudays, but hosts a r Sunday pub quiz and gets pretty packed on Friday and Saturday nights when the small dancefloor fills up wh a largely, though not exclively, gay male crowd.

THE 5 BT GAY BARS FORT LRDALE

Loted Clapham, a 15-20 mute tube ri om the cy centre, this tradnal gay pub-club is a perennial favoure wh LGBT+ Londoners who love an unpretent party. Keepg the gay flame burng out wt is this tradnal gay pub Ealg, a leafy suburb that’s about 25 mut by tube om central London.

More recently, was a gay bar lled Fladz – ’s had a varied past – before beg transformed to a chic we bar, a refed sister se to The Fox & Anchor pub next door. The gay scene London has always been centred around the Wt End, pecially Soho.

Vxhall beme the loc of gay clubs om 2000. 1866 The Coleherne, gay om the 1950s?, closed 24 September 2008 (261 Earls Court Road, Earls Court).

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

1981 Bolts (Lazer, Green Lan, Hargay). 1991 Sadie Maisie (London Lbian and Gay Centre, 67–69 Cowcross Street, Farrgdon). TheGayUK has a list of 102 bars and 32 clubs that have closed London sce 2000.

↑ Rictor Norton, Life of Thomas Neav 1729, Homosexualy Eighteenth-Century England.

↑ Jam Kirkup, A Poet Could not but be Gay, page 195.