LGBT History Month: Gay bars are refug for all says Canterbury's Lim Lounge and Tha's The Sundowners

Contents:

• GAY BAR.??? - LIM
• GAY NIGHTLIFE CANTERBURY
• GAY CANTERBURY
• LGBT HISTORY MONTH: GAY BARS ARE REFUG FOR ALL SAYS CANTERBURY'S LIM LOUNGE AND THA'S THE SUNDOWNERS SOPHIE BIRD PUBLISHED: 06:00, 08 FEBARY 2020  | UPDATED: 15:38, 08 FEBARY 2020   | | | --> THE OWNER OF A GAY BAR HAS SAID WE SHOULDN'T NEED TO HAVE THEM THE 21ST CENTURY, BUT THEY HAVE BEE A BEAN OF ACCEPTANCE TO MANY RECENT YEARSPARENTS OF LGBT+ CHILDREN KENT ARE NOW G THEM FOR ADVICE. DPE THE CHANGG TIM, THE BARS REMA A REFUGE FOR ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE WHO MAY BE IGHTENED TO REVEAL THEIR SEXUALY A NVENTNAL SETTG, OR DON'T WANT TO GO TO A PUB WHICH ULD BE FULL OF ROWDY REVELLERS.VISORS ALL DRSED UP AT THE SUNDOWNERS OWNERS OF GAY BARS HAVE BEEN AT THE FOREONT OF THEIR MUNY MOVG OUT OM BASEMENTS AND NOW THEY ARE SENTIALLY THE SAME AS ANY OTHER PUB. DUNN BAYL, 59, WHO NS THE SUNDOWNERS THA, SAID: "BARS ARE A LOT MORE THE OPEN NOW. IN THE PAST, BARS WERE HELD UNRGROUND. YOU HAD TO PH BUZZERS OR KNOW SOMEBODY TO BE ABLE TO GET TO THEM."NOW WE'RE QUE HAPPY TO ADVERTISE WE ARE A GAY BAR, WHICH IS A BIG STEP FORWARD. WE WILL FLY OUR FLAGS SO PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF WHAT WE ARE."ANTHONY BUTCHER, WHO NS LIM LOUNGE CANTERBURY, SAYS A BIG CHANGE HE HAS NOTICED IS HOW EQUENTLY PARENTS E TO HIS BAR LOOKG FOR ADVICE ON HOW TO REACT TO THEIR LGBT+ CHILD G OUT.THE 57-YEAR-OLD SAYS THIS HAS BEE LIKE A EE SERVICE THE BAR PROVIS, WH FAI OFTEN VISG MONTHS LATER TO THANK THEM.TONY BUTCHER, LIM LOUNGE: "SCE I'VE BEEN ME TO KENT, I'VE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER. I LOVE DOWN HERE NOW, 'S PART OF MY LIFE, 'S WHERE I SHOULD BE AND PROBABLY DIE DOWN HERE."HE ADD: "WHEN WE FIRST GOT HERE, WE HAD A GENTLEMAN WHOSE SON WANTED TO BE A WOMAN. HE ME DOWN HERE AND HE WAS TEARS WH HIS WIFE. HE WAS ASKG MY ADVICE AND I JT SAID TO HIM YOU'VE GOT TO GO WH THE FLOW AND SEE HOW GO. "NOW, THE LAD - WHO IS NOW A LADY - IS VERY HAPPY AND THE PARENTS HAVE ACCEPTED AND THEY POP EVERY NOW AND AGA.”ANTHONY SAYS BARS LIKE HIS ARE A REFUGE TO ALL, CLUDG CELEBRI, VIRS, POLICE, ARMED FORC, URT WORKERS AND ERNMENT WORKERS, WHO ARE AAID TO E OUT BUT KNOW THEIR SECRET WILL BE SAFE WH BAR STAFF.DUNN BELIEV AN IAL WORLD WE SHOULDN'T NEED GAYS BARS. HE ADD: "IF A MAN WANTS TO HOLD HANDS WH A MAN OR WOMEN WANT TO HOLD HANDS, THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO ANYWHERE. WE'RE THE 21ST CENTURY, NOT THE 1800S."EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT LGBT+ ENJOY THE SAFETY OF A GAY BAR AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO ROUGHER BARS. ANTHONY SAYS STRAIGHT WOMEN OFTEN VIS HIS BAR AS A WAY OF AVOIDG MEN HTG ON THEM AND TO BE A PLACE WHERE THEY FEEL RPECTED.THE SUNDOWNERS OFTEN HOLD DRAG IDOL PETNS, HAVE DRS UP EVENGS AND QUIZ NIGHTSDISABLED AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE WILL ALSO VIS THE BARS BEE OF THEIR REPUTATN FOR BEG ACCEPTG TO ALL. ANTHONY ADD: "IT'S NOT JT A TO MAKE MONEY. IT'S A REFUGE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE A B IGHTENED, SOME OF G OUT AND SOME OF THEM ARE OLR PEOPLE WHO ONLY E OUT LATER LIFE."THE BAR OWNERS ALSO SAY SOME OF THEIR CTOMERS E TO THE BARS FOR THE UNIQUE ENTERTAMENT, SUCH AS DRAG ACTS, FANCY DRS NIGHTS, MICIANS AND A RANGE OF GS - A VARIETY WHICH THEY SAY MOST PUBS NOW LACK. LOOKG BACK FOR LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH, GAY BARS HAVE SEEN A WARMER WELE THE GENERAL MUNY THE PAST FEW S. BUT NOW MANY ARE CLOSG DOWN ACROSS THE UNTY. DUNN REMEMBERS THREE WHICH WERE ONCE OPEN THA AND CANTERBURY HAS SEEN FOUR OTHERS CLOSE DOWN. LIME’S LOUNGE AND THE SUNDOWNERS ARE NOW THE ONLY GAY BARS THOSE AREAS.VISORS ENJOYG A DRK AT THE LIM BARTHE SUNDOWNERS OWNER HAS A THEORY AS TO WHY MORE BARS ARE CLOSG DOWN.HE SAID: "THE ST OF RENTS AND BS TAX RAT HAVE CLOSED A LOT OF THEM DOWN. BUT ALSO PEOPLE E SOCIAL MEDIA TO MEET MORE AND I THK THAT HAS A BIG BEARG."WHEREAS, GOG BACK, THERE WAS NO SOCIAL MEDIA, THERE WERE NO DATG APPS. SO PEOPLE ED TO HAVE TO GO TO A GAY BAR TO MEET ANOTHER GAY PERSON."THE 59-YEAR-OLD BELIEV THIS HAS IMPACTED THE STRAIGHT DATG WORLD AS WELL, BUT HS GAY BARS MUCH MORE BEE OF HOW SENTIAL THEY WERE FOR LGBT+ PEOPLE TO FD OTHERS LIKE THEMSELV.HOWEVER, NEHER OF THE OWNERS BELIEVE GAR BARS ARE GOG TO DIE OUT AS THEY STILL OFFER A SPACE PEOPLE NEED.TONY BUTCHER, OWNER OF LIM LOUNGE: “ANYONE WHO LIK THE GAY MUNY IS WELE.”ANTHONY AND DUNN HAVE BOTH NOTICED A RECENT RISE HOSTILY TOWARDS LGBT+ PEOPLE AND SAY HAS HAD A PART TO PLAY THE CLOSG OF SOME OF THE BARS.DUNN SAID: "I THK THERE IS FELY MORE ACCEPTANCE, BUT THE WORRYG TREND IS AT THE MOMENT WE HAVE AN CREASE HOMOPHOBIC ASSLTS THE UNTRY. IT'S FELY GONE BACKWARDS, I WOULD SAY, THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS."ACRDG TO THE LATT CROWN PROSECUTN SERVICE FIGUR, HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC HATE CRIM ALT WH BY PROSECUTORS KENT CREASED OM 38 2017/18 TO 62 2018/19.HATE CRIM TOWARDS LGBT+ PEOPLE HAS QUADPLED KENT SCE 2013/14, WHEN JT 14 S WERE ALT WH BY PROSECUTORS, 12 S RULTED NVICTNS AND TWO S DID NOT.THE RISE THE NUMBERS OF S MAY BE BEE PEOPLE HAVE MORE NFINCE REPORTG HATE CRIME, HOWEVER, THE LGBT+ CHARY STONEWALL, SUGGTS THE RISE HAS CID WH RISG BAT AROUND LGBT+ CLIVE TN AND TRANSGENR EQUALY.ANTHONY IS ADAMANT HE IS AN DTRY WHICH WOULD GO ON FOREVER. HE IS HOPEFUL FOR THE FUTURE, AS GAY BARS EVOLVE WH THE CHANGG TIM.HE SAID: “THE GAY MUNY IS NOT GOG BACK, THEY’RE GOG FORWARD BEE WE’RE GETTG BRAVER."I'VE WORKED HARD THIS DTRY FOR A VERY LONG TIME, 'S NICE TO KNOW THE BARRIERS ARE BREAKG DOWN AND PEOPLE ARE ENJOYG THEMSELV. ANYONE WHO LIK THE GAY MUNY IS WELE”READ MORE: ALL THE LATT NEWS OM KENT FOR MORE REAL LIFE STORI, CLICK HERE. --> CANTERBURY HUMAN INTERT KENT THA SOPHIE BIRD _PLUGMANAGER.SETTARGETVALUE("ARTICLEID", "221579"); FOLLOW MOST POPULAR
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS CANTERBURY
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CANTERBURY
• GAYS CANTERBURY
• GAY BAR CANTERBURY TRAILS
• THE 10 BEST CANARY ISLANDS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS CANARY ISLANDS
• LIM GAY BAR CANTERBURY REMAS SHUT AFTER LICENCE REVOKED FOLLOWG DG AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVUR ALLEGATNS READ ALL MENTS | DANIEL ESSON, LOL DEMOCRACY REPORTER PUBLISHED: 13:55, 13 OCTOBER 2022  | UPDATED: 20:00, 13 OCTOBER 2022   | | | --> A BAR HAS BEEN STRIPPED OF S LICENCE FOLLOWG A STRG OF VLATNS DUBBED THE WORST SEEN 11 YEARS.POLICE LLED FOR THE REVIEW AT LIM - THE ONLY GAY BAR CANTERBURY - AFTER BEG LLED TO BREAK UP FIGHTS, PROBE A SEXUAL ASSLT AND EVEN TACKLE A SWORD-WIELDG GANG.MICHAEL LEE AND TONY BUTCHER OUTSI LIMOFFICERS - WHO ALSO SAY THEY FOUND EVINCE OF DG-TAKG BEHD THE BAR - URGED THE CY UNCIL TO EXAME THE VENUE'S OPERATG NDNS.NEIGHBOURS HAD ALSO RAISED NCERNS ABOUT "TOLERABLE" NOISE LEVELS AND A SERI OF VLENT AND THREATENG CINTS AT THE ROSEMARY LANE BAR.AT A LICENSG HEARG THIS WEEK, UNCILLORS REVOKED OWNER EL GROUP'S ABILY TO N THE NIGHTSPOT. IT REMAS CLOSED UNTIL A NEW OPERATOR N BE FOUND.AHEAD OF THE MEETG, PROPERTY LANDLORD SARAH WHTALL, WHO RENTS OUT A HOE NEARBY, SAID: “THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN GOG ON FOR MANY YEARS. “AFTER LOCKDOWN, DURG WHICH THGS HAD BEEN QUIET, [MY TENANTS FOUND] NOISE LEVELS WERE SOMETIM HARDLY TOLERABLE AND EVENTS OUTSI OFTEN SOUND VLENT AND THREATENG.“THEY CID THAT THIS WAS NO PLACE TO RAISE A CHILD, AND MOVED OUT.“AT ONE POT THEY NTACTED TO SAY THERE SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN AN ATTEMPT TO BREAK DOWN THE ONT DOOR THE NIGHT BEFORE.“WE HAVE NOT RENTED OUT THE HOE SCE THEY LEFT LAST CHRISTMAS." DURG THE MEETG, CHAIRMAN CLLR ASHLEY CLARK (CON) SCRIBED THE BAR'S LICENSG VLATNS AS “THE WORST I’VE E ACROSS THE PAST 11 YEARS ON MTEE".LIM LOUNGE IS CANTERBURY'S ONLY GAY BARPOLICE LOGS SHOWED OFFICERS HAD BEEN LLED TO NUMERO FIGHTS, REPORTS OF DG-ALG THE PUB AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVUR DISTURBG NEIGHBOURS.THEY SAID THE DOORS WERE MANNED BY UNLICENSED SECURY STAFF WHO FAILED TO DISPERSE CTOMERS PROPERLY AFTER CLOSG TIME, G A DISPTN TO RINTS.IN DG SWAB TTS, OFFICERS FOUND TRAC OF E AND HERO VAR PLAC AROUND THE BS - ALLEGATNS THEN-LICENCE HOLR MICHAEL LEE, WHO RAN THE BS WH TONY BUTCHER, PREVLY SCRIBED AS “ABSOLUTE BBISH”.HE SAID: "THEY DID DG SWABS AND SAID THERE WAS EVINCE OF DG E OUR AREA – BUT WE HAVE A ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY TOWARDS . “THE ONLY WAY I ULD EXPLA IS WE HANDLE MONEY AND WOULD TOUCH PEOPLE, I DON’T KNOW.“WHY WOULD WE DO DGS BEHD THE BAR? IT JT DON’T MAKE SENSE.” THE BAR IS OWNED BY EI GROUP LTD - WHICH SELF IS N BY STONEGATE PUB GROUP, THE LARGT TAVERN PANY THE UK WH MORE THAN 4,000 PREMIS. THE PANY LEASED THE SE TO MR LEE, WHO WAS THE LICENCE HOLR AND HAD FULL OPERATNAL RPONSIBILY FOR THE BAR.BUT SCE POLICE LLED FOR THE CY UNCIL TO REVIEW THE VENUE'S OPERATG NDNS, EI GROUP STEPPED - ENDG MR LEE’S TENANCY AND LEASE AND TAKG OVER THE LICENCE.IN A STATEMENT GIVEN TO THE MTEE, SOLICORS OM GOSSCHALKS, ON BEHALF OF EI GROUP, SAID MR LEE “HAS VATED THE PREMIS AND WILL HAVE NOTHG TO DO WH MOVG FORWARD”.LIM HAS REMAED SHUT SCE HE WAS REMOVED OM HIS POSN AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER.RICHARD TAYLOR, WHO WORKS FOR GOSSCHALKS, TOLD MEMBERS: “WHAT WAS VERY CLEAR OM THE PAPERS WAS THAT THE REVIEW WAS BROUGHT BY THE POOR MANAGEMENT.CLLR ASHLEY CLARK SAID THE BAR'S VLATNS WERE THE WORST HE'D SEEN 11 YEARS“IF WE ARE MA AWARE OF SIGNIFINT PROBLEMS WE WILL AL WH THEM.“UNTIL RECENTLY, WE WERE NOT AWARE.”MR TAYLOR URGED THE MTEE TO ALLOW EI GROUP TO NTUE AS THE VENUE'S LICENCE HOLR.UNR THE PROPOSAL, THE PANY WOULD HAVE HELD POSN FOR A YEAR AFTER THE PREMIS REOPENED.THIS WOULD HAVE GIVEN DIRECT RPONSIBILY FOR LIM' LICENSED ACTIVI, EVEN IF SOMEONE ELSE WAS OPERATG .HOWEVER, THE MTEE WAS NOT NVCED THAT CULPABILY FOR THE PROBLEMS AT THE BAR END WH MR LEE.IN THEIR CISN STATEMENT, MEMBERS SAID EI GROUP SHOULD HAVE ACTED WH GREATER HASTE TO PUT AN END TO THE ISSU.“THE SUB-MTEE WAS NCERNED RINTS HAVE SUFFERED FOR A LONG TIME OM THE POOR MANAGEMENT OF THE PREMIS,” THEY EXPLAED.“IT IS A WELL-ROURCED PANY; SHOULD HAVE PAID MORE ATTENTN TO HOW THE PREMIS WERE OPERATED.”MR TAYLOR SISTED EI GROUP ULD TURN THGS AROUND.HE STRSED OFFICIALS OM THE FIRM WOULD LIAISE WH POLICE, WHO MA THE REQUT FOR REVOTN, ABOUT ANY FUTURE OPERATOR OF THE PREMIS.IN LIGHT OF THIS, AND THE FACT MR LEE HAD BEEN REMOVED OM HIS ROLE, PC JIM GALL TOLD UNCILLORS THE FORCE WAS NO LONGER REQUTG A REVOTN OF THE LICENCE.NOHELS, THE MTEE CID TO STRIP EI GROUP OF S LICENCE FOR THE VENUE.THE PANY WILL HAVE TO FD ANOTHER OPERATOR AND LEASEHOLR FOR THE BAR, AT WHICH POT THE NEW OPERATOR N APPLY FOR ANOTHER LICENCE.THE FUTURE E OF THE BUILDG IS UNKNOWN, AND WILL BE UP TO THE FUTURE LEASEHOLR. --> CANTERBURY CRIME KENT NEWS DANIEL ESSON, LOL DEMOCRACY REPORTER _PLUGMANAGER.SETTARGETVALUE("ARTICLEID", "275173"); VAR MENTS = NEW COMMENTS.COMMENTBOX({ TLE: "", SENAME: "KENTONLE", GROUPNAME: "KM GROUP", PAGEID: 706988, PAGESIZE: 20, PAGEPATH: "/NTERBURY/NEWS/BAR-STRIPPED-OF-LICENCE-OVER-DGS-NOISE-AND-VLENCE-REPOR-275173/", LLAPSIBLE: TE, SHOWHEARCOUNT: FALSE, SHOWTOGGLECOUNT: TE, THEME: "CB-FLT-THEME", INS: { REPLY: NULL, REPORT: NULL } }); FOLLOW MOST POPULAR

GAY BAR.??? - LIM

THIS IS NOT A GAY BAR JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A RAINBOW FLAG DOES NOT MAKE YOU A GAY BAR.

GAY NIGHTLIFE CANTERBURY

It’s a shame Canterbury has no real Gay n do wh given the place a good clean, om a dirty floor to dirty tabl and to dirty glass how is this place opened?

It's a massive shame that Canterbury's only gay bar has a bad reputatn for nstant trouble on a monthly basis. Read our transparency report to learn 2018 • SoloI went this bar thkg this was a gay bar.

GAY CANTERBURY

A shame as is the only gay barWrten 26 December 2018This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

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LGBT HISTORY MONTH: GAY BARS ARE REFUG FOR ALL SAYS CANTERBURY'S LIM LOUNGE AND THA'S THE SUNDOWNERS SOPHIE BIRD PUBLISHED: 06:00, 08 FEBARY 2020  | UPDATED: 15:38, 08 FEBARY 2020   | | | --> THE OWNER OF A GAY BAR HAS SAID WE SHOULDN'T NEED TO HAVE THEM THE 21ST CENTURY, BUT THEY HAVE BEE A BEAN OF ACCEPTANCE TO MANY RECENT YEARSPARENTS OF LGBT+ CHILDREN KENT ARE NOW G THEM FOR ADVICE. DPE THE CHANGG TIM, THE BARS REMA A REFUGE FOR ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE WHO MAY BE IGHTENED TO REVEAL THEIR SEXUALY A NVENTNAL SETTG, OR DON'T WANT TO GO TO A PUB WHICH ULD BE FULL OF ROWDY REVELLERS.VISORS ALL DRSED UP AT THE SUNDOWNERS OWNERS OF GAY BARS HAVE BEEN AT THE FOREONT OF THEIR MUNY MOVG OUT OM BASEMENTS AND NOW THEY ARE SENTIALLY THE SAME AS ANY OTHER PUB. DUNN BAYL, 59, WHO NS THE SUNDOWNERS THA, SAID: "BARS ARE A LOT MORE THE OPEN NOW. IN THE PAST, BARS WERE HELD UNRGROUND. YOU HAD TO PH BUZZERS OR KNOW SOMEBODY TO BE ABLE TO GET TO THEM."NOW WE'RE QUE HAPPY TO ADVERTISE WE ARE A GAY BAR, WHICH IS A BIG STEP FORWARD. WE WILL FLY OUR FLAGS SO PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF WHAT WE ARE."ANTHONY BUTCHER, WHO NS LIM LOUNGE CANTERBURY, SAYS A BIG CHANGE HE HAS NOTICED IS HOW EQUENTLY PARENTS E TO HIS BAR LOOKG FOR ADVICE ON HOW TO REACT TO THEIR LGBT+ CHILD G OUT.THE 57-YEAR-OLD SAYS THIS HAS BEE LIKE A EE SERVICE THE BAR PROVIS, WH FAI OFTEN VISG MONTHS LATER TO THANK THEM.TONY BUTCHER, LIM LOUNGE: "SCE I'VE BEEN ME TO KENT, I'VE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER. I LOVE DOWN HERE NOW, 'S PART OF MY LIFE, 'S WHERE I SHOULD BE AND PROBABLY DIE DOWN HERE."HE ADD: "WHEN WE FIRST GOT HERE, WE HAD A GENTLEMAN WHOSE SON WANTED TO BE A WOMAN. HE ME DOWN HERE AND HE WAS TEARS WH HIS WIFE. HE WAS ASKG MY ADVICE AND I JT SAID TO HIM YOU'VE GOT TO GO WH THE FLOW AND SEE HOW GO. "NOW, THE LAD - WHO IS NOW A LADY - IS VERY HAPPY AND THE PARENTS HAVE ACCEPTED AND THEY POP EVERY NOW AND AGA.”ANTHONY SAYS BARS LIKE HIS ARE A REFUGE TO ALL, CLUDG CELEBRI, VIRS, POLICE, ARMED FORC, URT WORKERS AND ERNMENT WORKERS, WHO ARE AAID TO E OUT BUT KNOW THEIR SECRET WILL BE SAFE WH BAR STAFF.DUNN BELIEV AN IAL WORLD WE SHOULDN'T NEED GAYS BARS. HE ADD: "IF A MAN WANTS TO HOLD HANDS WH A MAN OR WOMEN WANT TO HOLD HANDS, THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO ANYWHERE. WE'RE THE 21ST CENTURY, NOT THE 1800S."EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT LGBT+ ENJOY THE SAFETY OF A GAY BAR AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO ROUGHER BARS. ANTHONY SAYS STRAIGHT WOMEN OFTEN VIS HIS BAR AS A WAY OF AVOIDG MEN HTG ON THEM AND TO BE A PLACE WHERE THEY FEEL RPECTED.THE SUNDOWNERS OFTEN HOLD DRAG IDOL PETNS, HAVE DRS UP EVENGS AND QUIZ NIGHTSDISABLED AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE WILL ALSO VIS THE BARS BEE OF THEIR REPUTATN FOR BEG ACCEPTG TO ALL. ANTHONY ADD: "IT'S NOT JT A TO MAKE MONEY. IT'S A REFUGE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE A B IGHTENED, SOME OF G OUT AND SOME OF THEM ARE OLR PEOPLE WHO ONLY E OUT LATER LIFE."THE BAR OWNERS ALSO SAY SOME OF THEIR CTOMERS E TO THE BARS FOR THE UNIQUE ENTERTAMENT, SUCH AS DRAG ACTS, FANCY DRS NIGHTS, MICIANS AND A RANGE OF GS - A VARIETY WHICH THEY SAY MOST PUBS NOW LACK. LOOKG BACK FOR LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH, GAY BARS HAVE SEEN A WARMER WELE THE GENERAL MUNY THE PAST FEW S. BUT NOW MANY ARE CLOSG DOWN ACROSS THE UNTY. DUNN REMEMBERS THREE WHICH WERE ONCE OPEN THA AND CANTERBURY HAS SEEN FOUR OTHERS CLOSE DOWN. LIME’S LOUNGE AND THE SUNDOWNERS ARE NOW THE ONLY GAY BARS THOSE AREAS.VISORS ENJOYG A DRK AT THE LIM BARTHE SUNDOWNERS OWNER HAS A THEORY AS TO WHY MORE BARS ARE CLOSG DOWN.HE SAID: "THE ST OF RENTS AND BS TAX RAT HAVE CLOSED A LOT OF THEM DOWN. BUT ALSO PEOPLE E SOCIAL MEDIA TO MEET MORE AND I THK THAT HAS A BIG BEARG."WHEREAS, GOG BACK, THERE WAS NO SOCIAL MEDIA, THERE WERE NO DATG APPS. SO PEOPLE ED TO HAVE TO GO TO A GAY BAR TO MEET ANOTHER GAY PERSON."THE 59-YEAR-OLD BELIEV THIS HAS IMPACTED THE STRAIGHT DATG WORLD AS WELL, BUT HS GAY BARS MUCH MORE BEE OF HOW SENTIAL THEY WERE FOR LGBT+ PEOPLE TO FD OTHERS LIKE THEMSELV.HOWEVER, NEHER OF THE OWNERS BELIEVE GAR BARS ARE GOG TO DIE OUT AS THEY STILL OFFER A SPACE PEOPLE NEED.TONY BUTCHER, OWNER OF LIM LOUNGE: “ANYONE WHO LIK THE GAY MUNY IS WELE.”ANTHONY AND DUNN HAVE BOTH NOTICED A RECENT RISE HOSTILY TOWARDS LGBT+ PEOPLE AND SAY HAS HAD A PART TO PLAY THE CLOSG OF SOME OF THE BARS.DUNN SAID: "I THK THERE IS FELY MORE ACCEPTANCE, BUT THE WORRYG TREND IS AT THE MOMENT WE HAVE AN CREASE HOMOPHOBIC ASSLTS THE UNTRY. IT'S FELY GONE BACKWARDS, I WOULD SAY, THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS."ACRDG TO THE LATT CROWN PROSECUTN SERVICE FIGUR, HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC HATE CRIM ALT WH BY PROSECUTORS KENT CREASED OM 38 2017/18 TO 62 2018/19.HATE CRIM TOWARDS LGBT+ PEOPLE HAS QUADPLED KENT SCE 2013/14, WHEN JT 14 S WERE ALT WH BY PROSECUTORS, 12 S RULTED NVICTNS AND TWO S DID NOT.THE RISE THE NUMBERS OF S MAY BE BEE PEOPLE HAVE MORE NFINCE REPORTG HATE CRIME, HOWEVER, THE LGBT+ CHARY STONEWALL, SUGGTS THE RISE HAS CID WH RISG BAT AROUND LGBT+ CLIVE TN AND TRANSGENR EQUALY.ANTHONY IS ADAMANT HE IS AN DTRY WHICH WOULD GO ON FOREVER. HE IS HOPEFUL FOR THE FUTURE, AS GAY BARS EVOLVE WH THE CHANGG TIM.HE SAID: “THE GAY MUNY IS NOT GOG BACK, THEY’RE GOG FORWARD BEE WE’RE GETTG BRAVER."I'VE WORKED HARD THIS DTRY FOR A VERY LONG TIME, 'S NICE TO KNOW THE BARRIERS ARE BREAKG DOWN AND PEOPLE ARE ENJOYG THEMSELV. ANYONE WHO LIK THE GAY MUNY IS WELE”READ MORE: ALL THE LATT NEWS OM KENT FOR MORE REAL LIFE STORI, CLICK HERE. --> CANTERBURY HUMAN INTERT KENT THA SOPHIE BIRD _PLUGMANAGER.SETTARGETVALUE("ARTICLEID", "221579"); FOLLOW MOST POPULAR

fd your neart gay venue. Fd your neart gay bar, club or event by enterg a lotn or post below.

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Coyot is the only gay club Chatham. Addrs: 12B New Rd Ave, Chatham, UK, ME4 6BB Coyot is the only gay club Chatham, operatg on Fridays and Saturday.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS CANTERBURY

The event hosts a number of activi to take part and help celebrate Pri, one night saw visors takg part a gay in fancy drs petn. Addrs: 1 Albert Terrace, Margate, UK, CT9 1UJ Found Margate, Sundowners is the only gay bar the Tha district, and has been scribed as “quirky, mp and tons of fun”. The night regularly pulls a huge crowd, and y, is full of LGBT members, not jt another one of those gay nights domated by straight people overwhelmg the doors.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CANTERBURY

Alongsi Glterbomb, Canterbury also has s own gay bar open seven days a week lled Lim.

A mix of straight, gay and bi wh fantastic mic and a dance-floor but also sofas for chillg.

GAYS CANTERBURY

Me and my partner are mature gays but the rt of the group were hetrosexual. We had an absolute blast the staff (Simon) was very iendly and so were the ladi, strange part was the girl group only had two gay ladi as well, need i say anymore. There are fairly number of gay club about you & if you know you are not straight, go for .

Gay clubs are areas exactly where you n appreciate mic and drks, ually any cy you n disver diverse kds of clubs, some of them are fely big and loud although other people are smaller and lmer. It do not matter the style of mic that you like, there is for certa a gay club your area which is ial for you, check out Menspac and disver a the larger clubs you n disver rooms wh ssns of home mic and even dance performanc, everythg you require to have a wonrful time. Strobe lights have been flashg & mic blarg at the preferred Gay Nightlife Canterbury, rince to one of the hottt celebratn scen Do you know any Gay Nightlife Canterbury not listed right here?

GAY BAR CANTERBURY TRAILS

How has the gay muny veloped Canterbury over the last few s? We n this terview partly to mark the unfortunate ncellatn of Gay Pri this month bee of the ronavis crisis. What was like beg gay the var societal eras your life?

I didn’t feel affected by Sectn 28 [ the 1988 Lol Government Act, statg that uncils “shall not tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy” and that teachg mataed schools should not promote “the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”]. What was really important was when homosexualy [ the Sexual Offenc Act 1967] was crimalised. Anon: When I me here I knew of the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly [found 1969].

THE 10 BEST CANARY ISLANDS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS CANARY ISLANDS

It is now known as the Ashford Gay Group, and serv East Kent. Alongsi this there is the ‘Kent gay men social group’ on Facebook where the clientele is generally rather younger.

And there is also the ‘East Kent – Gay Outdoor Club’ which meets on the last Sunday of every month at lotns chosen by members for a ne or ten e walk. NM: What about Gay Pri?

Over my lifetime the wir acceptance of gay life n be seen the populary of Gay Pri which has bee a fay event.

LIM GAY BAR CANTERBURY REMAS SHUT AFTER LICENCE REVOKED FOLLOWG DG AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVUR ALLEGATNS READ ALL MENTS | DANIEL ESSON, LOL DEMOCRACY REPORTER PUBLISHED: 13:55, 13 OCTOBER 2022  | UPDATED: 20:00, 13 OCTOBER 2022   | | | --> A BAR HAS BEEN STRIPPED OF S LICENCE FOLLOWG A STRG OF VLATNS DUBBED THE WORST SEEN 11 YEARS.POLICE LLED FOR THE REVIEW AT LIM - THE ONLY GAY BAR CANTERBURY - AFTER BEG LLED TO BREAK UP FIGHTS, PROBE A SEXUAL ASSLT AND EVEN TACKLE A SWORD-WIELDG GANG.MICHAEL LEE AND TONY BUTCHER OUTSI LIMOFFICERS - WHO ALSO SAY THEY FOUND EVINCE OF DG-TAKG BEHD THE BAR - URGED THE CY UNCIL TO EXAME THE VENUE'S OPERATG NDNS.NEIGHBOURS HAD ALSO RAISED NCERNS ABOUT "TOLERABLE" NOISE LEVELS AND A SERI OF VLENT AND THREATENG CINTS AT THE ROSEMARY LANE BAR.AT A LICENSG HEARG THIS WEEK, UNCILLORS REVOKED OWNER EL GROUP'S ABILY TO N THE NIGHTSPOT. IT REMAS CLOSED UNTIL A NEW OPERATOR N BE FOUND.AHEAD OF THE MEETG, PROPERTY LANDLORD SARAH WHTALL, WHO RENTS OUT A HOE NEARBY, SAID: “THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN GOG ON FOR MANY YEARS. “AFTER LOCKDOWN, DURG WHICH THGS HAD BEEN QUIET, [MY TENANTS FOUND] NOISE LEVELS WERE SOMETIM HARDLY TOLERABLE AND EVENTS OUTSI OFTEN SOUND VLENT AND THREATENG.“THEY CID THAT THIS WAS NO PLACE TO RAISE A CHILD, AND MOVED OUT.“AT ONE POT THEY NTACTED TO SAY THERE SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN AN ATTEMPT TO BREAK DOWN THE ONT DOOR THE NIGHT BEFORE.“WE HAVE NOT RENTED OUT THE HOE SCE THEY LEFT LAST CHRISTMAS." DURG THE MEETG, CHAIRMAN CLLR ASHLEY CLARK (CON) SCRIBED THE BAR'S LICENSG VLATNS AS “THE WORST I’VE E ACROSS THE PAST 11 YEARS ON MTEE".LIM LOUNGE IS CANTERBURY'S ONLY GAY BARPOLICE LOGS SHOWED OFFICERS HAD BEEN LLED TO NUMERO FIGHTS, REPORTS OF DG-ALG THE PUB AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVUR DISTURBG NEIGHBOURS.THEY SAID THE DOORS WERE MANNED BY UNLICENSED SECURY STAFF WHO FAILED TO DISPERSE CTOMERS PROPERLY AFTER CLOSG TIME, G A DISPTN TO RINTS.IN DG SWAB TTS, OFFICERS FOUND TRAC OF E AND HERO VAR PLAC AROUND THE BS - ALLEGATNS THEN-LICENCE HOLR MICHAEL LEE, WHO RAN THE BS WH TONY BUTCHER, PREVLY SCRIBED AS “ABSOLUTE BBISH”.HE SAID: "THEY DID DG SWABS AND SAID THERE WAS EVINCE OF DG E OUR AREA – BUT WE HAVE A ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY TOWARDS . “THE ONLY WAY I ULD EXPLA IS WE HANDLE MONEY AND WOULD TOUCH PEOPLE, I DON’T KNOW.“WHY WOULD WE DO DGS BEHD THE BAR? IT JT DON’T MAKE SENSE.” THE BAR IS OWNED BY EI GROUP LTD - WHICH SELF IS N BY STONEGATE PUB GROUP, THE LARGT TAVERN PANY THE UK WH MORE THAN 4,000 PREMIS. THE PANY LEASED THE SE TO MR LEE, WHO WAS THE LICENCE HOLR AND HAD FULL OPERATNAL RPONSIBILY FOR THE BAR.BUT SCE POLICE LLED FOR THE CY UNCIL TO REVIEW THE VENUE'S OPERATG NDNS, EI GROUP STEPPED - ENDG MR LEE’S TENANCY AND LEASE AND TAKG OVER THE LICENCE.IN A STATEMENT GIVEN TO THE MTEE, SOLICORS OM GOSSCHALKS, ON BEHALF OF EI GROUP, SAID MR LEE “HAS VATED THE PREMIS AND WILL HAVE NOTHG TO DO WH MOVG FORWARD”.LIM HAS REMAED SHUT SCE HE WAS REMOVED OM HIS POSN AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER.RICHARD TAYLOR, WHO WORKS FOR GOSSCHALKS, TOLD MEMBERS: “WHAT WAS VERY CLEAR OM THE PAPERS WAS THAT THE REVIEW WAS BROUGHT BY THE POOR MANAGEMENT.CLLR ASHLEY CLARK SAID THE BAR'S VLATNS WERE THE WORST HE'D SEEN 11 YEARS“IF WE ARE MA AWARE OF SIGNIFINT PROBLEMS WE WILL AL WH THEM.“UNTIL RECENTLY, WE WERE NOT AWARE.”MR TAYLOR URGED THE MTEE TO ALLOW EI GROUP TO NTUE AS THE VENUE'S LICENCE HOLR.UNR THE PROPOSAL, THE PANY WOULD HAVE HELD POSN FOR A YEAR AFTER THE PREMIS REOPENED.THIS WOULD HAVE GIVEN DIRECT RPONSIBILY FOR LIM' LICENSED ACTIVI, EVEN IF SOMEONE ELSE WAS OPERATG .HOWEVER, THE MTEE WAS NOT NVCED THAT CULPABILY FOR THE PROBLEMS AT THE BAR END WH MR LEE.IN THEIR CISN STATEMENT, MEMBERS SAID EI GROUP SHOULD HAVE ACTED WH GREATER HASTE TO PUT AN END TO THE ISSU.“THE SUB-MTEE WAS NCERNED RINTS HAVE SUFFERED FOR A LONG TIME OM THE POOR MANAGEMENT OF THE PREMIS,” THEY EXPLAED.“IT IS A WELL-ROURCED PANY; SHOULD HAVE PAID MORE ATTENTN TO HOW THE PREMIS WERE OPERATED.”MR TAYLOR SISTED EI GROUP ULD TURN THGS AROUND.HE STRSED OFFICIALS OM THE FIRM WOULD LIAISE WH POLICE, WHO MA THE REQUT FOR REVOTN, ABOUT ANY FUTURE OPERATOR OF THE PREMIS.IN LIGHT OF THIS, AND THE FACT MR LEE HAD BEEN REMOVED OM HIS ROLE, PC JIM GALL TOLD UNCILLORS THE FORCE WAS NO LONGER REQUTG A REVOTN OF THE LICENCE.NOHELS, THE MTEE CID TO STRIP EI GROUP OF S LICENCE FOR THE VENUE.THE PANY WILL HAVE TO FD ANOTHER OPERATOR AND LEASEHOLR FOR THE BAR, AT WHICH POT THE NEW OPERATOR N APPLY FOR ANOTHER LICENCE.THE FUTURE E OF THE BUILDG IS UNKNOWN, AND WILL BE UP TO THE FUTURE LEASEHOLR. --> CANTERBURY CRIME KENT NEWS DANIEL ESSON, LOL DEMOCRACY REPORTER _PLUGMANAGER.SETTARGETVALUE("ARTICLEID", "275173"); VAR MENTS = NEW COMMENTS.COMMENTBOX({ TLE: "", SENAME: "KENTONLE", GROUPNAME: "KM GROUP", PAGEID: 706988, PAGESIZE: 20, PAGEPATH: "/NTERBURY/NEWS/BAR-STRIPPED-OF-LICENCE-OVER-DGS-NOISE-AND-VLENCE-REPOR-275173/", LLAPSIBLE: TE, SHOWHEARCOUNT: FALSE, SHOWTOGGLECOUNT: TE, THEME: "CB-FLT-THEME", INS: { REPLY: NULL, REPORT: NULL } }); FOLLOW MOST POPULAR

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