Whether you're lookg for somewhere to celebrate Pri, want to meet sgl, or are keen to liven up your weekend plans, we're brgg you the very bt of Edburgh's gay bars.
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- THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH
- GAY EDBURGH: DISVER THE CY’S BT LGBTQ HOTSPOTS
- THE EDBURGH PUB THAT WAS ‘HIDN’ EPICENTRE OF CY’S GAY SCENE 1970S
- SIE MCCABE: ‘THE WORST ADVICE I’VE HAD? DON’T BE TOO GAY YOUR MATERIAL – MEN WON’T LIKE ’
- GAY BARS EDBURGH
- GAY PUB EDBURGH
THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH
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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.
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Gay Edburgh: Disver the bt of the cy’s LGBTQ nightlife, om buzzg nightclubs to sy pubs to all the drag queens, diss, and DJs between. * gay pubs in edinburgh *
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. 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.
THE EDBURGH PUB THAT WAS ‘HIDN’ EPICENTRE OF CY’S GAY SCENE 1970S
If there's one thg we're proud to say has improved over the years, 's our natn's attu to homosexualy. We take a look back at the cy pub that was val to the pal's gay scene the '70s. * gay pubs in edinburgh *
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. 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.
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.
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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.
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Gay hotels Edburgh. 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).
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Garlands Gut Hoe is a gay-owned B&B Leh, 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. He scribed the experience of disverg a gay-iendly pub back those days as revelatory.