THE BEST Glasgow Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023) - Tripadvisor

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• GAY DATG GLASGOW
• THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW
• 'MEET ME AT THE KNOB' – RELLG GLASGOW'S FOTTEN GAY SCENE AND THE NOTOR WHE HATSWE TAKE A LOOK BACK ON THE STORY OF THE POWR-FACED, STYLISHLY DRSED GANG OF MALE PROSTUT AND THE HIDN LIV OF GAY MEN WHO LIVED, LOVED, CISED AND PARTIED GLASGOW THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY.GLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCHRISTA O'NEILLDIGAL JOURNALIST14:20, 2 FEB 2021UPDATED16:19, 26 JAN 2023BOOKMARKTHE WHE HATS ARE SAID TO HAVE LED THE BROOMIELAW THE 1920S. PICTURE: SUBMTED.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!
• BT GAY BARS IN GLASGOW
• HEALTH TTS SERVICE FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN GLASGOW
• SIE MCCABE: ‘THE WORST ADVICE I’VE HAD? DON’T BE TOO GAY YOUR MATERIAL – MEN WON’T LIKE ’
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

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Pipeworks Gay Sna ClubWele to Stland’s bt and largt Gay Sna club. Metropole Hoe, 5 Metropole Ln, Glasgow G1 4NH, Uned Kgdom 141 552 5502[email protected]PIPEWORKS GAY SAUNA CLUB - Wele to Stland’s bt and largt Gay Sna club. READ MORE: The Waterloo, The Vtners and the other go-to Glasgow gay spots of yteryear.

Gay uple, 1919; Broomielaw, where the Whe Hats worked.

THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW

Through years of rearchg and terviewg gay and bisexual men, he disvered the story of the ltle-known Whe Hats – who ed nicknam to nceal their te inti om the thori.

'MEET ME AT THE KNOB' – RELLG GLASGOW'S FOTTEN GAY SCENE AND THE NOTOR WHE HATSWE TAKE A LOOK BACK ON THE STORY OF THE POWR-FACED, STYLISHLY DRSED GANG OF MALE PROSTUT AND THE HIDN LIV OF GAY MEN WHO LIVED, LOVED, CISED AND PARTIED GLASGOW THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY.GLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCHRISTA O'NEILLDIGAL JOURNALIST14:20, 2 FEB 2021UPDATED16:19, 26 JAN 2023BOOKMARKTHE WHE HATS ARE SAID TO HAVE LED THE BROOMIELAW THE 1920S. PICTURE: SUBMTED.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!

They were known for targetg wealthier clients particular, who had a fair b to lose at a time when homosexualy was illegal.

It may also e as a surprise to learn that some of the Whe Hats were blackmailed to beg prostut or were "gay for pay".

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. Gay and bisexual men were forced to refully partmentalise their liv to keep their sexualy unr wraps and avoid beg "ught out" as the nsequenc on their workg liv, fai and reputatns would be grave. By the 1980s, there were more openly gay and mixed bars such as Delmonis, Guys Bar, the Waterloo Bar and Bens.

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Though there was ltle they uld do to crimalise gay men other than "tch them the act", men terviewed told how ps would timidate them the streets and e to their bars at closg time to orr drks and create an hostile atmosphere among punters. "Gay men were viewed by the police as the lowt of the lowt terms of crimaly: A vis, a disease, which was spreadg major ci.

" Though most men shroud their sexualy secrecy the early 20th century, there were s of openly gay men who would be out and proud wh their peers – one of whom worked the shipyards by the Cly. They were perfectly okay wh certa reprentatns of homosexualy – mostly lourful, mp, over-the-top typ. But they would say what really threatened their masculy was if someone 'jt like them' was gay.

"Dpe the horrors faced by gay people the 1920s to 60s – and the fact that who they were practice was illegal until the early 80s, some of the men had great fun.

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"I asked him, ‘Do you thk gay and lbian people will ever be able to marry? 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.

SIE MCCABE: ‘THE WORST ADVICE I’VE HAD? DON’T BE TOO GAY YOUR MATERIAL – MEN WON’T LIKE ’

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.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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. 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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

(Image: Gay Stland (via Queer Stland)).

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AXM is a gay club that's garnered a solid reputatn and a loyal crowd of regulars. A drop- service offerg sexual health ttg for gay and bisexual men has been lnched clic, n by Sandyford service and Gay Men's Health, will n on Thursday evengs Merchant Cy. Usg blood drawn om fgers, rults om HIV and syphilis ttg will be available wh 20 Greater Glasgow and Cly (GGC) hop the service will raise awarens of HIV among gay men and rce future rat of GGC sexual health improvement officer Nicky Coia said: "HIV is the sexually transmted fectn that people really worry about, so the fact they n get rults really quickly is important.