The Waterloo, The Vtners and the other go-to Glasgow gay spots of yteryear - Glasgow Live

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• THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW
• BT GAY BARS IN GLASGOW
• THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW
• THE WATERLOO, THE VTNERS AND THE OTHER GO-TO GLASGOW GAY SPOTS OF YTERYEARWE LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE PLAC THAT BEME WELL KNOWN HNTS FOR THE CY'S GAY MUNY THE 70S AND 80S - WH SPECIAL MENTN TOO TO THE LEGEND WHO WAS BETTY HUTTONGLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCRAIG WILLIAMS14:15, 1 JAN 2019UPDATED19:38, 29 MAY 2020BOOKMARKTHE WATERLOO BAR IS GLASGOW'S OLST GAY PUB (IMAGE: FACEBOOK)GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT 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 GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT 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!
• GLASGOW GAY DISTRICT: MERCHANT CY
• GLASGOW GAY SNAS
• GLASGOW OR EDBURGH IF YOU’RE GAY? - STLAND FOM
• THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH
• GAY STLAND
• GLASGOW GAY MAP

THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW

Jt make sure to check out our gui to Glasgow's gay bars, as they really have got the cy's LGBTQ+ nightlife ssed. If you're lookg for the bt gay bars Glasgow's Merchant Cy, Speakeasy really is a top spot. Katie's Bar offers an utterly mixed bag to the cy's gay nightlife.

AXM is a gay club that's garnered a solid reputatn and a loyal crowd of regulars. Thanks to plac such as Delmoni’s, Katie’s Bar, AXM and nights such as Hot Ms and Shoot Your Shot, Glasgow pre-lockdown had a thrivg gay pub and club scene.

From a time when Glasgow uld be nsired a hostile place for the gay muny - and not jt bee the participatn homosexual acts was emed a crimal offence. This meant that bars the 1960s were fairly discreet, until a gay scene appeared almost overnight the cy the early 1970s. Before then Glasgow’s gay scene was effectively centred around hoe parti - the most famo of which took place regularly at Novar Drive the Hyndland area.

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In the early 1970s, The De of Wellgton Argyle Street was one of the first pubs that was taken over by Glasgow’s LGBT+ muny, wh the Waterloo Bar next door also havg a reputatn of beg both gay (and prostute) iendly. The Waterloo on Argyle Street, Glasgow's olst gay pub.

"Betty was a larger than life character on the gay scene Glasgow when I first took my tentative steps onto the scene the early 1990's. Meanwhile, 1980, the Sttish Homosexual Rights Group bought a premis at Queen’s Crcent to form a licenced Gay Club.

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Wh a fé and functn sue, was succsful for some time, but uld not pete wh other new gay venu which had recently e on the scene Glasgow. The Court Bar on Hutchon Street (which shut 2015) would "turn gay" at 8pm om the mid 1980s onwards, wherpon is said that not only the staff changed, but an alternative and higher price list was fetched om unr the unter and affixed to the wall. And the 1970s and early 80s also saw the appearance of gay iendly diss the cy, such as the Great Wtern Hotel along Gt Wtern Road and Fire Island at Crs on Partick Bridge St.

Across our ci you’ll fd a range of gay bars and rtrants, offerg a fun and lively scene for your break away. UNDERGROUND This gay bar Glasgow’s Merchant Cy is a rehg addn to the LGBTQ+ night life.

Vis Unrground DELMONICA’S Offerg a welg LGBTQ+ place sce 1991, this boozy gay bar serv up a range of fun and uy cktails and hand-fished pizzas. Vis Delmoni’s THE WATERLOO Triple award-wng and the olst gay bar Glasgow, the Waterloo don’t disappot! Vis The Waterloo AXM Glasgow Brand ‘Stland’s biggt and bt LGBTQ+ nightclub’, this gay bar and club has gaed a signifint reputatn for beg a iendly, fun and attu-ee place to be Glasgow.

THE WATERLOO, THE VTNERS AND THE OTHER GO-TO GLASGOW GAY SPOTS OF YTERYEARWE LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE PLAC THAT BEME WELL KNOWN HNTS FOR THE CY'S GAY MUNY THE 70S AND 80S - WH SPECIAL MENTN TOO TO THE LEGEND WHO WAS BETTY HUTTONGLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCRAIG WILLIAMS14:15, 1 JAN 2019UPDATED19:38, 29 MAY 2020BOOKMARKTHE WATERLOO BAR IS GLASGOW'S OLST GAY PUB (IMAGE: FACEBOOK)GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT 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 GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT 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!

CC Blooms CC Blooms is somethg of an stutn, havg been a val part of the gay scene Edburgh for more than two s. Vis The Street THE REGENT Dubbed ‘the bt real ale gay pub Edburgh’, this relaxed, dog-iendly bar has twice won CAMRA’s Edburgh Pub of the Year Award. CHEERZ Bar and Club CHEERZ was tablished 1996 and has been at the heart of Aberen’s small but welg gay scene for the bt part of two s.

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THE SALTY DOG Head to Crichton Street to this small but top-rated LGBTQ+ iendly gay bar Dune. Head along to Dune’s gay nightclub wh a lourful atmosphere, a variety of drks, and a mix of mic. Glasgow is gay all over, but there are also specific gay neighborhoods wh a high ncentratn of fantastic gay bars and clubs the prettit part of the cy.

The majory of gay venu are... The majory of gay venu are around Virgia Street, the pretty Merchant Cy district. The Merchant Cy district is the heart of Glasgow's gay actn, wh the Pk Triangle boastg some of the most fun gay hangouts the cy.

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It may be younger than other historil Glasgow bars, but The Waterloo claims an important distctn as the cy’s olst gay bar. While other gay bars are cltered other parts of the cy, The Waterloo is a reflectn of an earlier era when the scene was but not fottenOld College Bar, High StreetThe Old College Bar on High Street has now been molishedThe Old College Bar was one of several tablishments to claim the tle of olst Glasgow.

The Pipeworks is Stland’s bt and largt Gay Sna Club, loted central Glasgow, near the gay scene. The gay scene Glasgow has changed so much - for better or worse - but The Waterloo is a stalwart that (apart om a b of a facelift here & there) is still there. Awful attu om the staff cludg the homophobic door staff.

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This ed to be a proud gay bar but no more.

Read our transparency report to learn 2022We only vis this place on a Wednday to listen to Graham & Christeen for as they ll Wacky Wednday is a Gay but don't let that put you off staff were excellent specially Allison. It ed to be pretty wild, full of prostut and ne’erdowells, and the gay punters were ee entertament.

Dr Meek plotted a number of maps published on his webse Queer Stland by terviewg gay men as part of his PHD. He pored though archiv, legal rerds and gay magaz datg back to the 1980s, which listed bars, clubs, rtrants and cemas where people uld vis. Same-sex sexual activy wasn't legalised Stland until 1981 but there were many bars, rtrants and hot-spots across the cy for gay men and women to meet.

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Gay and bisexual men were forced to refully partmentalise their liv to keep their sexualy unr wraps and avoid beg exposed – as the nsequenc on their workg liv, fai and reputatns would be grave. Dr Meek's terviewe also told how officers would also e to pubs at closg time on Friday and Saturday night for a drk to timidate patrons and staff, g homophobic language.

” There were gay or gay-iendly bars such as Vtners on Cly Street, At's and The Strand on Hope Street, while the bars at the Cizen's Theatre and the Central Hotel beme safe spac for the muny to socialise the 1950s and 1960s – even if they were not advertised as such.

By the 1980s, there were more openly gay and mixed bars on the scene such as Delmoni's, Guys Bar, the Waterloo Bar and Bent's (now AXM) which attracted a typilly younger, more affluent crowd. The historian argu ltle has been done to regnise the cy's rich LGBTQ herage: One example was the Glasgow Gay Centre at 534 Schiehall Street, where the Charg X Hostel now stands.

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Unsurprisgly, there was some hostily om nservative uncillors, lols and neighbourg anisatns at the time, cludg a bld veterans group next door to 'The Club', set up by the Homosexual Rights Group for social functns at 4 Queen's Crcent the wt end. “The volunteers reportedly received plats that patrons would be ‘terfered’ by homosexuals.

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