Parliament Bar: Belfast’s first gay bar was scene of INLA p murr and IRA bombg

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• THE BEST BELFAST GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BELFAST
• THE BEST BELFAST GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BELFAST
• KEEP GAY
• FORMER OWNER OF BELFAST’S FIRST GAY BAR RELLS INLA P MURR AND IRA BOMBG
• HERE’S WHERE TO FD BELFAST’S LGBTQ SPAC COMMERCIAL COURT BELFAST'S CATHEDRAL QUARTER IS A CENTRE OF LGBTQ LIFE THE CY | © RUBEN RAMOS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO MAISIE LRD 24 MAY 2021 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT DPE A REPUTATN AS A POLILLY DIVID CY, THE LGBTQ MUNY BELFAST IS VERY BROAD, WH PLENTY OF LLECTIVE SPAC AND SPECIAL EVENTS – OM GAY BARS AND FILM NIGHTS TO TRANS MUNY SPAC. HERE’S WHERE TO FD LGBTQ SPAC, EVENTS AND ROURC THE CY. VIEW ALL TRIPS GAY PRI PARA 2018 BELFAST | © WENN RIGHTS LTD / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO FOR A RELATIVELY SMALL PAL, BELFAST HAS S FAIR SHARE OF GAY AND LBIAN VENU. IN SOME S, THE HAVE BEEN A LIFELE TO QUEER PEOPLE GROWG UP THE CY. “SEEG OLR NFINT AND OUT PEOPLE WAS A GAME-CHANGER,” SAYS ONE MAN, SCRIBG HIS EXPERIENCE VISG BELFAST’S LONGT-NNG GAY BAR, KREML, FOR THE FIRST TIME. “NO LONGER WAS THE GAY PERSON JT A SAD SUBPLOT ON THE TELLY.” TODAY, THE NIGHTCLUB IS STILL A PLACE OF LIBERATN, WHERE PATRONS SCRIBE “FEELG SUPPORTED AND NFINT ABOUT YOUR INTY… NOT FEELG RIDICULED”. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP EGYPT TURKEY GREECE CROATIA JAPAN ICELAND MEXI INDIA SPA SOUTH AI BALI MOROC ECUADOR THAILAND START YOUR EXPLORATN OF BELFAST’S QUEER SCENE THE CATHEDRAL QUARTER, WHERE YOU’LL FD KREML AND OTHER BARS, SUCH AS THE MORE LAID-BACK AND LOURFUL MAVERICK. POPULAR WH BELFAST’S LBIAN AND QUEER FEMALE MUNY, OFFERS THE CHANCE TO PLAY POOL AND DANCE ALONGSI THE CY’S DRAG QUEENS. ITS SISTER BAR, BOOMBOX, N BE FOUND NEAR THE STUNT QUARTER AND IS ALSO A GAY HOTSPOT. THE ART DEPARTMENT IS ANOTHER SPACE THE CATHEDRAL QUARTER WORTH VISG. HERE, THE DRAG QUEENS GET DOOR MONEY, AND THE STAFF GET BAR MONEY. ALSO, ’S N ENTIRELY AS A QUEER LLECTIVE. THOUGH NOT STRICTLY AN LGBTQ BAR, THE NEARBY SUNFLOWER AND SISTER PUB AMERIN BAR ARE WELG TO EVERYONE AND OFTEN HOST DRAG PERFORMANC THEIR LENDAR OF EVENTS; POP BY FOR A SHOW OR ONE OF THEIR CREATIVE POETRY NIGHTS. MAVERICK BAR IS AN LGBTQ HUB BELFAST | © JACKIE ELLIS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO THERE ARE, OF URSE, CLUB NIGHTS DITED TO THE LGBTQ MUNY THROUGHOUT THE CY. THE MOST FUN AND EXCG ARE QUEERTOPIA, THE MENAGERIE (POPULAR WH LBIANS BUT A CELEBRATN OF THE DIVERSY OF BELFAST’S QUEER SCENE), AND HARLAND & POOF, WHICH TAK OVER DIFFERENT LOTNS AROUND BELFAST WH S SIGNATURE CREATIVE AND THENTIC CELEBRATN OF ALL STRIP OF THE QUEER RABOW. EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP BUT THERE’S MORE TO BELFAST’S QUEER SCENE THAN BARS AND CLUBS. AS WELL AS THE ANNUAL SUMMER PRI FTIVAL, LOOK OUT FOR OUTBURST QUEER ARTS FTIVAL THE TUMN WHEN AN ARRAY OF SPAC ACROSS THE CY ARE TAKEN OVER FOR A CELEBRATN OF QUEER INTY. FOR FILM LOVERS, THE QUEEN’S FILM THEATRE HAS A MONTHLY LGBTQ FILM SCREENG, AND THE TUMN WANDA FEMIST FILM FTIVAL ALSO SHOWS PLENTY OF LGBTQ-IENDLY FILMS. QUEEN’S FILM THEATRE, BELFAST | © STEPHEN BARN/ENTERTAMENT / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO SOME OF THE CY’S MOST CREATIVE SPAC ARE QUEER-N, SUCH AS THE 343 (WHICH TAK S NAME OM SIMONE BEVOIR’S 1971 ABORTN PETN). THE FEMIST, VOLUNTEER-LED LGBTQ ART SPACE – WHICH IS MTED TO SELF-ANISG AND CREATIVE ACTIVISM – HOLDS EVENTS RANGG OM QUEER AS SPOKE (S POPULAR POETRY NIGHT) TO DRAG PERFORMANC AND EDY THERAPY NIGHTS FEATURG DIVERSE ACTS SUCH AS MISTRS REBEC. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. FARTHER UP NEWTOWNARDS ROAD IS VLT ARTIST STUDS, A SPACE FOR ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS THAT DRAWS A BROAD QUEER MUNY. JEN, A DOCUMENTARY MAKER BELFAST, LLS “A JUDGEMENT-EE SPACE FOR ANYTHG OM MIC TO DRAG PERFORMANC TO ART FAIRS, EVEN CHARY WORKSHOPS. WHEN MAKG MY DOCUMENTARY TE COLOURS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY, I JOED A LLECTIVE MAKG PACKS WH DAILY SENTIALS FOR THE HOMELS. LGBTQ PEOPLE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BEE HOMELS THAN THEIR PEERS, BUT THERE IS ALSO, PECIALLY BELFAST, A MUNY OF SUPPORT.” BELFAST’S TRANSGENR MUNY IS WELL SERVED BY THE BELFAST TRANS ROURCE CENTRE (BTRC), A MUNY SPACE AND HUB THAT HAS REGULAR GAME NIGHTS AND PROVIS A SAFE SPACE. ANOTHER IMPORTANT ROURCE BELFAST IS THE RABOW PROJECT, WHICH HELPS AL WH REPORTG HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC HATE CRIM AND PROVIS SEXUAL HEALTH SUPPORT WHOUT JUDGEMENT. PEOPLE HOLD PLARDS AS THEY TAKE PART THE RABOW PROJECT RALLY FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY | © REUTERS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO BELFAST IS ALSO HOME TO A THRIVG RELIG QUEER SCENE; VIS A PACKED SERVICE AT QUEER CHRISTIAN CHURCH SPECTM TO HEAR PARISHNERS DISCS THEIR EXPERIENC OF G OUT ALONGSI THEIR VOTN TO RELIGN. GRAB A BE TO EAT AFTERWARDS; PARISHNER NILE SAYS THAT “ONE OF MY FAVOURE PLAC TO GO WH MY GIRLIEND IS THE CHRISTIAN-N DOCK CAFE.” THE Fé IS AN IAL PLACE TO GO FOR A DAYTIME DATE WHOUT FEARG JUDGEMENT. INSTEAD OF SET PRIC, DONATNS ARE ACCEPTED FOR HOT DRKS AND FOOD AND THERE’S A TRANQUIL PRAYER GARN AT THE BACK. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• BELFAST: GAY AND LBIAN
• BELFAST: GAY AND LBIAN
• BOOMBOXBELFASTMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY SHOPSATTRACTNSCY GUIGAY MAPBOOMBOX
• BELFAST GAY MAP
• LIBERTEBELFASTMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY SHOPSATTRACTNSCY GUIGAY MAPLIBERTE
• MAVERICK BARBELFASTMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY SHOPSATTRACTNSCY GUIGAY MAPMAVERICK BAR
• BELFAST GAY SNAS
• KEEP GAY
• TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS QUEEN'S QUARTER (BELFAST)GAY CLUBS & BARS QUEEN'S QUARTER
• THE BEST BELFAST GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BELFAST
• THE BEST BELFAST GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS BELFAST

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"Transphobia, biphobia, homophobia, sexism and misogyny are all rooted the same iology - and we nnot succsfully end one whout brgg an end to them all. POLARI WRITING WORKSHOP WITH LEE CAMPBELLBelfast Pri partnership wh Ulster Universy, 17:30 to 19:00 - Ulster Universy, York Street At the start of the workshop, participants watch a short poetry film by Lee lled The Tale of Benny Harris (2022), a film wrten entirely Polari (gay slang). Wh activists such as Jefey Dudgeon, Doug Sobey, Pla Keenan and more, The Troubl I've Seen explor the start of the Gay Liberatn movement, the tablishment of Cara-Friend and the ep sense of muny and support that was fed by mpaigng the face of AIDS, legal rtrictns, and the anarchial polil suatn.

Tickets: THE BIG GAY QUIZ 2023 The Rabow Project, 19:00, Unn Bar, Queen's Stunts' Unn The Rabow Project's annual Pri week fundraiser THE BIG GAY QUIZ is back bigger and better. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.

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.

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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. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.

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In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. ” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist.

On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.

Belfast is home to the largt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr ftival Ireland and the cy has a thrivg LGBTQI+ muny and gay scene. The annual Outburst Queer Arts Ftival is packed wh theatre, film, mic, visual art and discsns which explore and celebrate lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr stori and experienc. Belfast's bt gay bars and clubs are loted the cy's Gay Quarter area, north of the cy centre on the edge of the Cathedral Quarter.

FORMER OWNER OF BELFAST’S FIRST GAY BAR RELLS INLA P MURR AND IRA BOMBG

The cy’s most famo gay club is probably Kreml on Donegall Street. A huge variety of theme nights, celebry performanc and the iendlit up-for- clubbers giv Kreml the reputatn of beg the bt gay venue Ireland.

Maverick Bar on Unn Street is a popular gay bar, well-loved for s eclectic live mic nights and edy shows. Gay-iendly bars clu Muriel’s Café Bar on Church Lane and The Spaniard on Skipper Street. Head to Boombox Belfast on Donegall Street the Gay Quarter.

HERE’S WHERE TO FD BELFAST’S LGBTQ SPAC COMMERCIAL COURT BELFAST'S CATHEDRAL QUARTER IS A CENTRE OF LGBTQ LIFE THE CY | © RUBEN RAMOS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO MAISIE LRD 24 MAY 2021 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT DPE A REPUTATN AS A POLILLY DIVID CY, THE LGBTQ MUNY BELFAST IS VERY BROAD, WH PLENTY OF LLECTIVE SPAC AND SPECIAL EVENTS – OM GAY BARS AND FILM NIGHTS TO TRANS MUNY SPAC. HERE’S WHERE TO FD LGBTQ SPAC, EVENTS AND ROURC THE CY. VIEW ALL TRIPS GAY PRI PARA 2018 BELFAST | © WENN RIGHTS LTD / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO FOR A RELATIVELY SMALL PAL, BELFAST HAS S FAIR SHARE OF GAY AND LBIAN VENU. IN SOME S, THE HAVE BEEN A LIFELE TO QUEER PEOPLE GROWG UP THE CY. “SEEG OLR NFINT AND OUT PEOPLE WAS A GAME-CHANGER,” SAYS ONE MAN, SCRIBG HIS EXPERIENCE VISG BELFAST’S LONGT-NNG GAY BAR, KREML, FOR THE FIRST TIME. “NO LONGER WAS THE GAY PERSON JT A SAD SUBPLOT ON THE TELLY.” TODAY, THE NIGHTCLUB IS STILL A PLACE OF LIBERATN, WHERE PATRONS SCRIBE “FEELG SUPPORTED AND NFINT ABOUT YOUR INTY… NOT FEELG RIDICULED”. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP EGYPT TURKEY GREECE CROATIA JAPAN ICELAND MEXI INDIA SPA SOUTH AI BALI MOROC ECUADOR THAILAND START YOUR EXPLORATN OF BELFAST’S QUEER SCENE THE CATHEDRAL QUARTER, WHERE YOU’LL FD KREML AND OTHER BARS, SUCH AS THE MORE LAID-BACK AND LOURFUL MAVERICK. POPULAR WH BELFAST’S LBIAN AND QUEER FEMALE MUNY, OFFERS THE CHANCE TO PLAY POOL AND DANCE ALONGSI THE CY’S DRAG QUEENS. ITS SISTER BAR, BOOMBOX, N BE FOUND NEAR THE STUNT QUARTER AND IS ALSO A GAY HOTSPOT. THE ART DEPARTMENT IS ANOTHER SPACE THE CATHEDRAL QUARTER WORTH VISG. HERE, THE DRAG QUEENS GET DOOR MONEY, AND THE STAFF GET BAR MONEY. ALSO, ’S N ENTIRELY AS A QUEER LLECTIVE. THOUGH NOT STRICTLY AN LGBTQ BAR, THE NEARBY SUNFLOWER AND SISTER PUB AMERIN BAR ARE WELG TO EVERYONE AND OFTEN HOST DRAG PERFORMANC THEIR LENDAR OF EVENTS; POP BY FOR A SHOW OR ONE OF THEIR CREATIVE POETRY NIGHTS. MAVERICK BAR IS AN LGBTQ HUB BELFAST | © JACKIE ELLIS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO THERE ARE, OF URSE, CLUB NIGHTS DITED TO THE LGBTQ MUNY THROUGHOUT THE CY. THE MOST FUN AND EXCG ARE QUEERTOPIA, THE MENAGERIE (POPULAR WH LBIANS BUT A CELEBRATN OF THE DIVERSY OF BELFAST’S QUEER SCENE), AND HARLAND & POOF, WHICH TAK OVER DIFFERENT LOTNS AROUND BELFAST WH S SIGNATURE CREATIVE AND THENTIC CELEBRATN OF ALL STRIP OF THE QUEER RABOW. EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP BUT THERE’S MORE TO BELFAST’S QUEER SCENE THAN BARS AND CLUBS. AS WELL AS THE ANNUAL SUMMER PRI FTIVAL, LOOK OUT FOR OUTBURST QUEER ARTS FTIVAL THE TUMN WHEN AN ARRAY OF SPAC ACROSS THE CY ARE TAKEN OVER FOR A CELEBRATN OF QUEER INTY. FOR FILM LOVERS, THE QUEEN’S FILM THEATRE HAS A MONTHLY LGBTQ FILM SCREENG, AND THE TUMN WANDA FEMIST FILM FTIVAL ALSO SHOWS PLENTY OF LGBTQ-IENDLY FILMS. QUEEN’S FILM THEATRE, BELFAST | © STEPHEN BARN/ENTERTAMENT / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO SOME OF THE CY’S MOST CREATIVE SPAC ARE QUEER-N, SUCH AS THE 343 (WHICH TAK S NAME OM SIMONE BEVOIR’S 1971 ABORTN PETN). THE FEMIST, VOLUNTEER-LED LGBTQ ART SPACE – WHICH IS MTED TO SELF-ANISG AND CREATIVE ACTIVISM – HOLDS EVENTS RANGG OM QUEER AS SPOKE (S POPULAR POETRY NIGHT) TO DRAG PERFORMANC AND EDY THERAPY NIGHTS FEATURG DIVERSE ACTS SUCH AS MISTRS REBEC. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. FARTHER UP NEWTOWNARDS ROAD IS VLT ARTIST STUDS, A SPACE FOR ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS THAT DRAWS A BROAD QUEER MUNY. JEN, A DOCUMENTARY MAKER BELFAST, LLS “A JUDGEMENT-EE SPACE FOR ANYTHG OM MIC TO DRAG PERFORMANC TO ART FAIRS, EVEN CHARY WORKSHOPS. WHEN MAKG MY DOCUMENTARY TE COLOURS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY, I JOED A LLECTIVE MAKG PACKS WH DAILY SENTIALS FOR THE HOMELS. LGBTQ PEOPLE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BEE HOMELS THAN THEIR PEERS, BUT THERE IS ALSO, PECIALLY BELFAST, A MUNY OF SUPPORT.” BELFAST’S TRANSGENR MUNY IS WELL SERVED BY THE BELFAST TRANS ROURCE CENTRE (BTRC), A MUNY SPACE AND HUB THAT HAS REGULAR GAME NIGHTS AND PROVIS A SAFE SPACE. ANOTHER IMPORTANT ROURCE BELFAST IS THE RABOW PROJECT, WHICH HELPS AL WH REPORTG HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC HATE CRIM AND PROVIS SEXUAL HEALTH SUPPORT WHOUT JUDGEMENT. PEOPLE HOLD PLARDS AS THEY TAKE PART THE RABOW PROJECT RALLY FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY | © REUTERS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO BELFAST IS ALSO HOME TO A THRIVG RELIG QUEER SCENE; VIS A PACKED SERVICE AT QUEER CHRISTIAN CHURCH SPECTM TO HEAR PARISHNERS DISCS THEIR EXPERIENC OF G OUT ALONGSI THEIR VOTN TO RELIGN. GRAB A BE TO EAT AFTERWARDS; PARISHNER NILE SAYS THAT “ONE OF MY FAVOURE PLAC TO GO WH MY GIRLIEND IS THE CHRISTIAN-N DOCK CAFE.” THE Fé IS AN IAL PLACE TO GO FOR A DAYTIME DATE WHOUT FEARG JUDGEMENT. INSTEAD OF SET PRIC, DONATNS ARE ACCEPTED FOR HOT DRKS AND FOOD AND THERE’S A TRANQUIL PRAYER GARN AT THE BACK. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

The Belfast LGBT Centre is loted at 23-31 Warg Street Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter, which ho a number of chari cludg the Rabow Project and Cara Friend, providg unsellg, beiendg, rmatn and a health and social space for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny. Kreml, Unn Street and Maverick are Belfast's three Gay nightlife venu.

For more tails on what’s on each night at the, and other gay-iendly bars and clubs, check out. Bsman Jim Murtagh says the ‘Gay Revolutn’ is the bt thg that ever happened to an terview wh the Sunday World, the former owner of the popular Parliament Bar, tells of his cisn to bee a -sponsor of the cy’s first ‘Gay Pri’ wnsed the Rev.

Murtagh (67) also rells how his wife and son were forced to flee for their liv - along wh hundreds of gay ctomers - when the IRA built a bomb si his he sists the sadst day of his life was when he was told RUC officer Darren Bradshaw had been shot ad by the INLA, as he danced the night away his Darren Bradshaw, 24, was murred by INLA. Our gay ctomers viewed Darren’s murr as an attack on the gay muny and as far as I and my staff were ncerned, they were right.

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Murtagh said the Parliament was the latt versn of his pub, havg been prevly known as the Dunbar Lk and then the Wateront, after the Marlon Brando film ‘On the Wateront’ Murtagh:“Our gay ctomers were brilliant.

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I’d been London and Dubl and I’d seen gay bars workg well. For a start everyone was Gay Pri para Belfast“We had managed to get back open for bs for bs after the IRA bombed the place. The Parliament was a gay bar and was the bt thg we ever did.

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”“The ‘gay’ scene had arrived Belfast and the Parliament was the epicentre of .

Gay ctomers travelled om as far away as Derry, Donegal, Limavady and Strabane. The straight muny was learng how to treat the gay muny wh rpect. “And the gay muny - while enjoyg their new-found eedom - was learng how to -exist wh the straight muny.

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I told them to dch the bow ti and se at our new gay ctomers. I orred them to extend the hand of iendship, bee they didn’t know how to wele gay people.

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“One bouncer wasn’t happy wh the new directn, but a few weeks later, I saw him on the dance floor wh a gay partner!

“The gay revolutn had fely changed Northern Ireland for the batter, but Darren’s murr fished me wh the bar bs.

Dpe a reputatn as a polilly divid cy, the LGBTQ muny Belfast is very broad, wh plenty of llective spac and special events – om gay bars and film nights to trans muny spac. For a relatively small pal, Belfast has s fair share of gay and lbian venu. “Seeg olr nfint and out people was a game-changer, ” says one man, scribg his experience visg Belfast’s longt-nng gay bar, Kreml, for the first time.

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“No longer was the gay person jt a sad subplot on the telly.

Its sister bar, Boombox, n be found near the stunt quarter and is also a gay hotspot. Another important rource Belfast is the Rabow Project, which helps al wh reportg homophobic and transphobic hate crim and provis sexual health support whout judgement.

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