NEWCASTLE GAY VILLAGE: All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (wh Photos)

Contents:

• NEWSTLE GAY AND LBIAN SCENE
• ALSO KNOWN AS THE PK TRIANGLE ALWAYS... - NEWSTLE GAY VILLAGE
• THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
• TRACKG NEWSTLE'S GAY HISTORY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• NEWSTLE GAY VILLAGE
• ALSO KNOWN AS THE PK TRIANGLE ALWAYS... - NEWSTLE GAY VILLAGE
• THE BT GAY VILLAG IN THE UNED KGDOM FOR FABULO QUEER FUN! ??
• NEWSTLE GAY BAR SET TO DOUBLE SIZE AS UNCIL DROPS NOISE OBJECTNS TO £500,000 EXPANSN PLANTHE BANK BAR, THE CY’S PK TRIANGLE, IS PLANNG TO TAKE OVER THE EMPTY BUILDG NEXT DOOR TO STSWOOD ROAD AND EXTEND S OPENG HOURSNECHRONICLEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYDANIEL HOLLANDLOL DEMOCRACY REPORTER16:43, 24 MAR 2021BOOKMARKTHE BANK PUB ON STSWOOD ROAD NEWSTLE CY CENTREGET THE LATT NEWS OM NEWSTLE 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 NEWS OM NEWSTLE 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!

NEWSTLE GAY AND LBIAN SCENE

Newstle Gay and Lbian Scene. Newstle-upon-Tyne is home to a growg gay and lbian scene, which is beg one of the most signifint North East England. The Newstle gay scene is jt a few mut walk om Central Statn and although there is no specific 'village' area as such, this spot do boast a thrivg and excg nightlife.

One of the ma gay venu the Newstle area is the Powerhoe Club on Wtmorland Road, which is to be found alongsi the Centre for Life and is jt a stroll away om the Newstle Central Metro tra statn. Eclipse - a trendy gay pub prevly named Hero and sed on Clayton Street Wt. The highlight of the gay and lbian year Newstle is the LGBT Northern Pri celebratn, which is a large ftival that tak place mid-July.

ALSO KNOWN AS THE PK TRIANGLE ALWAYS... - NEWSTLE GAY VILLAGE

Centred around the Universy of Newstle and Leaz Park particular, this ftivy is pletely ee of charge and now draws the regn of 8, 000 atten, makg this the biggt gay pri ftival currently beg held North East England. Newstle Gay Village ('The Pk Triangle') is always a fab night out wh buzzg great mic, DJ's and fab dance floors, plenty of pubs and clubs to choose om wh plenty of iendly staff and bouncers!

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of the Pk Triangle to Newstle’s gay scene: although attus have changed and members of the LGBTQ+ muny may feel creasgly fortable venu throughout the cy, for a long time this rapidly-changg area between Central Statn and Metro Arena was a safe space, a social work and a place of fun and muny.

THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

A ltle further along Stswood Road you’ll fd The Yard, Newstle’s olst gay pub, a mastay of the cy’s scene for forty or so years.

TRACKG NEWSTLE'S GAY HISTORY

This vast venue – Newstle’s olst gay club – offers a variety of spac across s four floors to su different tast and is open till 4am every night (5am on Saturday!

Newstle´s gay scene, “The Pk Triangle”, is centered the Tim Square area near the Centre for Life and has a variety of LGBT clubs and bars.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Before the pk triangle beme a worldwi symbol of gay power and pri, was tend as a badge of shame.

In Nazi Germany, a downward-potg pk triangle was sewn onto the shirts of gay men ncentratn mps—to intify and further humanize them. Homosexualy was technilly ma illegal Germany 1871, but was rarely enforced until the Nazi Party took power 1933. As part of their missn to racially and culturally “purify” Germany, the Nazis arrted thoands of LGBT dividuals, mostly gay men, whom they viewed as Uned Stat Holot Memorial Mm timat 100, 000 gay men were arrted and between 5, 000 and 15, 000 were placed ncentratn mps.

NEWSTLE GAY VILLAGE

Jt as Jews were forced to intify themselv wh yellow stars, gay men ncentratn mps had to wear a large pk triangle.

)At the mps, gay men were treated pecially harshly, by guards and fellow prisoners alike. “There was no solidary for the homosexual prisoners; they belonged to the lowt ste, ” Pierre Seel, a gay Holot survivor, wrote his memoir I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, timated 65 percent of gay men ncentratn mps died between 1933 and 1945. Even after World War II, both East and Wt Germany upheld the untry’s anti-gay law, and many gays remaed rcerated until the early 1970s.

)The early 1970s was also when the gay rights movement began to emerge Germany. In 1972, The Men wh the Pk Triangle, the first tobgraphy of a gay ncentratn mp survivor, was published. The next year, post-war Germany’s first gay rights anizatn, Homosexuelle Aktn Wtberl (HAW), reclaimed the pk triangle as a symbol of liberatn.

ALSO KNOWN AS THE PK TRIANGLE ALWAYS... - NEWSTLE GAY VILLAGE

Horac Villalobos/Corbis/Getty ImagMemorial plaqu for homosexuals, Jehovah's Wns and Wehrmacht serters are placed where once stood one of the molished barracks Buchenwald ncentratn mp near Weimar, Germany.

THE BT GAY VILLAG IN THE UNED KGDOM FOR FABULO QUEER FUN! ??

In 1986, six New York Cy activists created a poster wh the words SILENCE = DEATH and a bright pk upward-facg triangle, meant to ll attentn to the AIDs crisis that was cimatg populatns of gay men across the untry.

The search is on for rmatn about the lourful – and often clanste – history of Newstle upon Tyne's gay scene.

Organisers of a new history walk are llg on members of the cy's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muni to share their memori and stori so that they n be clud the cy trail. The LGBT Herage Walk has been veloped by members of the STaG gay and bisexual men's group and is based upon the memori and anecdot of men who have experienced Newstle's gay scene through the years.

NEWSTLE GAY BAR SET TO DOUBLE SIZE AS UNCIL DROPS NOISE OBJECTNS TO £500,000 EXPANSN PLANTHE BANK BAR, THE CY’S PK TRIANGLE, IS PLANNG TO TAKE OVER THE EMPTY BUILDG NEXT DOOR TO STSWOOD ROAD AND EXTEND S OPENG HOURSNECHRONICLEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYDANIEL HOLLANDLOL DEMOCRACY REPORTER16:43, 24 MAR 2021BOOKMARKTHE BANK PUB ON STSWOOD ROAD NEWSTLE CY CENTREGET THE LATT NEWS OM NEWSTLE 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 NEWS OM NEWSTLE 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!

Steve Paske, who has been volved velopg the walk, says has helped to pture many wonrful, and sometim poignant, memori of Newstle's gay scene over several s. “Most of the memori clud the walk are those of gay men, ” said Steve. “We know that other people wh the LGBT muni will have their own memori and we would wele any addnal rmatn so that we n build a fuller picture of how Newstle's gay scene has veloped and thrived over the years.

The walk tak people om Central Statn – where a bar at The County Hotel, nicknamed Nancy’s after the managers, was once the place to be seen – to the Haymarket – where the former Senate bar was the meetg place for the Tyni Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE) the late 70s. It trac the history of gay bars and clubs, past and prent, the famo characters who were once key figur on the gay scene and the stggle and discrimatn faced by gay men and women – as well as their succs – their mpaign for equaly. The Pk Triangle is the hub of today’s gay scene but the 1950’s and 60s was the cy's famo Bigg Market.

For s Punchellos Bar the now gone Royal Turks Head Hotel on Grey Street was a popular meetg place for olr homosexuals. Gay bars and other venu pend on the existence of ‘gay-iendly’ or actually gay and lbian landlords and landladi, as well as a nsirable amount of discretn on the part of the clientele.