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Contents:

• WELE TO THE BRISTOL LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR FOM WEBSE.
• THE BEST BRISTOL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BRISTOL
• EXHIBN ON GAY LIFE AND THE LGBT MOVEMENT BRISTOL, BATH AND THE SURROUNDG REGN
• “MOTHER HEN” OF BRISTOL’S GAY MUNY PASS AWAY
• BRISTOL LBIAN AND GAY SWCHBOARD: ALMOST 40 YEARS OF LGBTQ+ MUNY
• GAY LIFE BRISTOL - BRISTOL FOM
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS BRISTOL, CT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• BRISTOL GAY MAP
• BRISTOL GAY MEN'S SOCIAL
• BRISTOL GAY BARS

WELE TO THE BRISTOL LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR FOM WEBSE.

The first openly gay club Bristol was lled Moul Rouge.

Those who remember say there were highly examg door staff who wouldn’t perm entry to those that didn’t seem gay. Bristol was home to an early gay-rights’ activist.

A Problem Greek Ethics (1883) and A Problem Morn Ethics (1891) argued for a ratnal approach to homosexualy and law reforms. Symonds -wrote the revolutnary book, Sexual Inversn (1897) – a textbook on homosexualy that characteriz as neher rpt nor the effect of mental illns.

THE BEST BRISTOL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BRISTOL

Radnor Hotel was Bristol’s first gay pub.

EXHIBN ON GAY LIFE AND THE LGBT MOVEMENT BRISTOL, BATH AND THE SURROUNDG REGN

It’s now known as the Radnor Rooms, but 30 St Nicholas Street was a gay pub om the early 1940s.

Its history is unclear, bee nothg was wrten about until after homosexualy was legalised 1967. She remembers: “Durg the War was full of gay Amerins, soldiers statned up at Clifton College…wonrful!

“MOTHER HEN” OF BRISTOL’S GAY MUNY PASS AWAY

They may have been the first Bristol to e the Amerin term ‘gay’ rather than queer. “The clientele was mixed – by night and at weekends gays and theatrils om the Old Vic Kg Street or om the Hippodrome, cludg the actors Anton Walbrook, Eric Portman and the drag artiste Danny La Rue”. Gay Swchboard started on a steep road Totterdown.

BRISTOL LBIAN AND GAY SWCHBOARD: ALMOST 40 YEARS OF LGBTQ+ MUNY

Dale Wakefield tablished Bristol Gay Swchboard on Febary 14, 1975. Although there were advertised hours, lls arrived at all tim of the day, which Dale alt wh until, 1978, the service moved to the Bristol gay Centre Mrthur’s Warehoe Gasferry Road.

On 1st July 1972, 700 Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and queer people took to the streets of London to bat the forced visibily faced by queer people; beg out and proud was not seen as the norm society at this time, whereas today, is much more mon for LGBTQIA+ people to be open about their te selv.

Bristol Gay Ftival. This n be seen through a variety of voluntary anisatns that were set up to support the muny, like a swchboard to provi help and advice, a gay women’s magaze and even a ftival which would bee the origs of Pri Bristol. The first of the ftivals, known as Bristol Gay Ftival rather than the more faiar moniker of Pri, was held 1977.

GAY LIFE BRISTOL - BRISTOL FOM

Bristol Gay Ftival was one of the earlit queer regnal events outsi of London, and nsisted of social events and film screengs at the Arnolfi, a lol ntemporary art gallery, and Bristol Arts Centre. The first Bristol Gay Ftival was anised as a fundraiser to help Gay News, the natnally published newspaper for LGBTQIA people, s legal battle agast moraly mpaigner Mary Whehoe. Organisers exprsed their “appreciatn of the Cy Councillors who stood up to the anti-gay lobby protectg our right to e a public buildg.

Bristol Gay Ftival was an early example of a regnal LGBTQIA event, and n be seen as a prototype for Pris outsi of London. After the Bristol Gay Ftival 1985, the LGBTQIA celebratn beme known as Avon Pri, to reflect the wir geography volved. ” Fear of homophobic abe would certaly ter people om participatg.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS BRISTOL, CT

The ntributor also foc on the prence of Lbian and Gay people at the events, and the flippant ‘whatever’ eras the ntributn and prence of bi and trans people om the event.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Gay Wt by Robert How: Know Your Place, Bristol, ‘LGBT Life’: Gay News Blasphemy Trial: History of Pri London: Peter Tatchell’s memori of the first Pri the UK: ©Jack Shoulr. In workg partnership wh Bristol Cy Council – we have empowered lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people to bee actively volved muny life. We pri ourselv  challengg homophobia and transphobia the wir muny and help promote unrstandg of equaly and cln of LGBT people.

that they challenge homophobia and homophobic bullyg. Exhibn on gay life and the LGBT movement Bristol, Bath and the surroundg regn.

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OutStori have llected and prerved the herage of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred (LGBT) muni of Bristol and the surroundg area. In particular, the project unearthed material om the Bristol Cy archiv cludg programm om Bristol Pri ftivals as well as early documents relatg to the Bristol Gay Swchboard, Gay Wt and the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly. Peggy Hanck, a longtime iend and ally of Bristol’s gay muny, sadly passed away on December 28th 2021 at the age of 98.

BRISTOL GAY MEN'S SOCIAL

Peggy was born Hotwells 1923, and at age fifteen a chance vis to the Radnor Hotel- Bristol’s earlit known gay pub- set her on the path towards a lifetime of iendship wh Bristol’s gay muny. The Radnor Hotel, Bristol’s earlit known gay pub.

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Wh equal enthiasm, she partied wh and protected her new-found iend circle, rmg Bristol’s gay muny about the dangers of ttagg whout disapproval or judgement. The protectn and kdns she showed the muny did not go unreward, and Peggy ma lifelong iends om Bristol’s gay muny. In an terview wh OutStori Bristol 2011, she remarked “Gays have ma my life, they’ve oned me… when I’ve had tragedi they protected me.