Opn: Recent arrts of gay men Dubl public toilets echo the dark ag • GCN

Contents:

• DUBL GAY DISTRICT: TEMPLE BAR
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS DUBL
• THE BT OF GAY DUBL
• OPN: RECENT ARRTS OF GAY MEN DUBL PUBLIC TOILETS ECHO THE DARK AG
• EXPLORG THE DOUBLE LIFE A PUBLIC PARK HAD FOR GAY PEOPLE IRELAND DURG DARKER TIM
• DUBL GAY BARS GUI - BT GAY HANGOUTS DUBL, IRELAND
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS DUBL
• DUBL GAY MAP

DUBL GAY DISTRICT: TEMPLE BAR

Thanks to s relatively small size, Dubl don’t have a nfed gay district that travelers have to venture to.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS DUBL

Instead, the cy is host to several gay bars, clubs, and rtrants to s relatively small size, Dubl don’t have a nfed gay district that travelers have to venture to. Instead, the cy is host to several gay bars, clubs, and rtrants that are sttered throughout the cy and more than easy to get to. That said, much gay life n be found particular though inic Temple Bar, as well as along Ge and Capel Streets the cy centre.

The Gee is nsired an stutn Dubl, and has been one of the bt plac to go gay clubbg the cy for 25 years. Nearby PantiBar is also a popular gay bar Dubl, that is owned by Ireland’s unofficial Queen and gay rights activist, Panti Bliss.

THE BT OF GAY DUBL

In terms of the bt gay snas Dubl, The Boilerhoe is a mt. Wh four floor, this is one of the biggt gay snas the world. Out, open, and proud, Dubl is ready to wele you for your next gaytn to the Emerald Isle.

From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis.

A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! The cy’s pact size means ’s easy to bop om place to place and LGBT travellers shouldn’t feel they’re limed to ‘official’ gay-iendly venu; would be difficult to fd a venue Dubl cy centre you won’t be wele . If you want to dive head-first to the gay scene though, the are the plac to start.

OPN: RECENT ARRTS OF GAY MEN DUBL PUBLIC TOILETS ECHO THE DARK AG

As many Wtern ci, gay bars are more likely to be closg down than openg up Dubl, as homosexualy be more accepted across all venu. North of the Liffey, Pantibar ntu to draw crowds, thanks part to beg owned by the unofficial queen of Ireland, Panti Bliss, bonafi drag royalty and one of the untry’s leadg gay rights activists.

Wh lourful flowers and plenty of cycle lan, mak for a nice sojourn and has a wir signifince: the tragic murr of a lol gay man lled Declan Flynn the park 1982 is wily nsired the talyst for the Irish gay rights movement. LGBT-iendly venu existed long before homosexualy was legalised 1993. Break for the Borr stands place of Bartley Dunne’s, probably the untry’s first gay-iendly venue, which prid self on allowg punks and ‘alternative’ people , while the Vikg holds the tle of beg Ireland’s first exclively gay bar – ’s now unr new management and has been renamed Brogan’s.

The GAZE Film Ftival July has been celebratg LGBT storytellg for 25 years, while the Dubl Gay Theatre Ftival tak place smaller venu across the cy May. Like all ci, homophobic cints are not unheard of but are few and far between, and public displays of affectns between same-sex upl are que monplace.

EXPLORG THE DOUBLE LIFE A PUBLIC PARK HAD FOR GAY PEOPLE IRELAND DURG DARKER TIM

I am wrg this piece to exprs my sadns and anger surroundg the arrt of five young gay men at Dubl’s Marks & Spencer toilets, Mary Street June of this year. This is not some new phenomenon, they even have a term for gay men havg sex public toilets: ttagg. As Ireland pris self as a tolerant and equal society, how n we possibly rema silent if this persecutn of gay men ntu to be ployed by the state?

Firstly, I was ma aware by members of the Brazilian gay muny that the Brazilian gay men volved the Marks and Spencer toilets se were named and shamed cludg disclosure of their private addrs while “a married man wh children” was not named. The other disturbgly dark si to this story is the age-old associatn of gay men and children beg dragged to the urtroom. I shudr when I hear this very subtle way of associatg paedophilia wh gay men and repuls me to hear this still beg brought to an Irish urtroom.

Gay men have had to put up wh years of this shamg narrative around the abhorrent associatn wh paedophilia, serly impactg their mental health.

DUBL GAY BARS GUI - BT GAY HANGOUTS DUBL, IRELAND

© 2021 GCN (Gay Communy News). When a piece of queer art ed a childhood memory to e floodg back, Han Tiernan reflected on the send liv public spac had for gay people.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS DUBL

One day when we were playg the park, one of the olr kids told that we better not enter at night bee there were “rent boys” and “gay men”. By the time I was The Gee watchg the film, I was a long-standg, fully-fledged lbian unr no illns about cisg culture and “rent boys” or even “gay men”. I assumed, although we never discsed , that many of my gay iends had cised.

The sndal was a plex and long-nng se which began after William O’Brien, the Natnalist MP and edor of Uned Ireland newspaper published several articl accg Cornwall and Jam Ellis French, Director of the Detective Department of the Royal Irish Constabulary, of beg homosexual. The ensug trials acced Cornwall, French and Kirwan of solicatn and buggery as well as three gay brothel owners of buggery and “keepg disorrly rooms”.

DUBL GAY MAP

The sndal had untold repercsns for the gay muny Dubl and throughout Ireland and the UK, the most signifint of which was the passg of the 1885 Gross Incency Act. The act ma easier to arrt homosexuals, often wh ltle more evince than mere allegatns.

It was the law unr which Osr Wil was tried and the law which remaed place Ireland until the crimalisatn of homosexualy 1993. It has often been a necsy servg an array of sir such as gay men unhappy marriag or bisexual men or those who simply fetishise sex wh strangers. But as well as satisfyg sir served as a social outlet for men who didn’t want to or were unable to engage wh the gay ‘scene’ and had nowhere else to go.