Doorway hidn B&M r park once led to town's first gay club - 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
• DOORWAY HIDN B&M R PARK ONCE LED TO TOWN'S FIRST GAY CLUB
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• GAY NIGHTLIFE LIVERPOOL
• LIVERPOOL GAY DANCE CLUBS
• GAY BARS IN LIVERPOOL
• THE CURZON CLUB - CLOSEDLIVERPOOLMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASCY GUIGAY SHOPSGAY MAPGAY UK INXGAY WEDDGSTHE CURZON CLUB - CLOSED

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

Tucked away bi what is now a B&M r park are a set of doors that once led to a seasi town's first gay club.

In the 1990s Top Floor Gays, known to lols as TFGs, provid a safe space for LGBT+ people to exprs themselv eely away om fear of discrimatn. While Southport stggled to get s LGBT+ nightlife scene up and nng, gay clubs on Liverpool's Stanley Street and Manchter's Canal Street had already started to thrive. All the gay people had to go out to other plac like Blackpool and Liverpool.

" She ntued: "I wanted to keep exclive so gay people uld have a place of their own to let their hair down.

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

"There's plenty of straight clubs, why not a gay club? " Th, Top Floor Gays was born. The si door B&M r park led up a spiral stairse to the exclive Top Floor Gays club.

DJ Steve Johnson Southport gay bar TFGs, 1994.

Photographer Stuart Ln, of Harrogate, ns a nostalgia Instagram acunt sharg photos and stori om the Northern gay scene of days gone by.

DOORWAY HIDN B&M R PARK ONCE LED TO TOWN'S FIRST GAY CLUB

They were more fortable beg openly gay. When TFGs closed, left a massive void Southport's gay muny. As of 2021, there are no gay bars Southport.

Medho's Cuban Lat Lounge on Coronatn Walk Southport, former home of Southport's gay club TFGs. Former TFGs patrons Robert and Stuart argued gay scen towns like Southport stggle to velop bee of close proximy to petg scen ci wh thrivg bigger gay scen.

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But Mreen hasn't lost hope Southport's gay scene will one day return to s former glory. The former TFGs host said: "Somebody wh the passn to start a new gay club Southport should go for .

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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. 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.

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In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. ” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.

He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.