The Edburgh pub that was ‘hidn’ epicentre of cy’s gay scene 1970s - Edburgh Live

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• THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH
• THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH
• GAY EDBURGH: DISVER THE CY’S BT LGBTQ HOTSPOTS
• GAY EDBURGH, STLAND | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• THE BT GAY BARS EDBURGH
• THE EDBURGH PUB THAT WAS ‘HIDN’ EPICENTRE OF CY’S GAY SCENE 1970S
• GAY BARS EDBURGH
• EDBURGH'S GAY SCENE
• GAY PUB EDBURGH
• THE ARE 5 OF THE BT GAY BARS TO CELEBRATE PRI EDBURGH 2019
• SIE MCCABE: ‘THE WORST ADVICE I’VE HAD? DON’T BE TOO GAY YOUR MATERIAL – MEN WON’T LIKE ’
• GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
• GAY EDBURGH EDBURGH CY GUI
• THE EDBURGH PUB THAT WAS ‘HIDN’ EPICENTRE OF CY’S GAY SCENE 1970S

THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH

It’s a warm, welg cy, filled wh some of the most breathtakg sights Stland, om the famo Royal Mile the betiful Old Town to the by shoppg district of Prc Street where Edburgh’s gay neighbourhood, The Pk Triangle, is loted.

THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH

Edburgh’s gay tablishments are varied. If you’re a fan of drag, you’ll fd plenty of opportuni to wns drag performanc, play bgo, and partake siar activi at many of the cy’s most popular gay tablishments. Whether you’re here for a month or jt a weekend, if you’re an LGBTQ traveller visg Edburgh, read on to disver the bt ways to explore the cy’s vibrant gay scene.

To be gay Edburgh: Is LGBTQ iendly? Edburgh is a very gay-iendly cy. The gay area Edburgh: The Pk Triangle.

You’ll fd gay bars, pubs, and clubs mostly ncentrated on Broughton Street and towards the top of Leh Walk.

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Edburgh’s bt gay bars and clubs have relaxed atmospher, welg staff, and iendly patrons. Open om 1:00 pm to 1:00 am, Habana Edburgh is the perfect venue to beg your night out around Edburgh’s gay scene.

CC Blooms, named after the lead of the 1988 film Beach (played by Bette Midler), is one of the biggt gay clubs Edburgh. This sy bar is one of Edburgh’s longt-nng gay bars, known for s iendly atmosphere and reasonably priced drks (and also sponsors the Hot Sts, Stland’s first-ever LGBTQ football team).

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Paradise Palms isn’t exactly a gay bar, but attracts a lot of LGBTQ patrons wh s funky r, creative dg optns, and drag baret.

Victoria Bar is on Leh Walk, a 15-mute walk om the ma gay neighbourhood Edburgh.

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This is another tablishment that isn’t specifilly a gay venue but is very gay-iendly and popular wh LGBTQ lols. It hosts a gay, dis-themed party (lled Hey QT) once a month. It has s roots march, celebratns, and monstratns of the late 1980s and 1990s, cludg the Lark the Park events that began as a prott agast Sectn 28, a seri of laws across Bra that prohibed promotns of homosexualy.

Gay hotels Edburgh. Gay-owned, gay-iendly or gay-popular, you’ll be given the most exquise service all the tablishments.

THE EDBURGH PUB THAT WAS ‘HIDN’ EPICENTRE OF CY’S GAY SCENE 1970S

Holiday Inn Exprs Edburgh is one of the clost hotels to the cy’s gay bars. While ’s not specifilly a gay hotel, the lotn is nvenient for those headg to the Pk Triangle, and you’ll likely n to other LGBTQ travellers here and strike up a nversatn.

Tigerlily isn’t jt a hotel popular among LGBTQ travellers – s downstairs bar and rtrant is also a known hotspot for LGBTQ lols (even though ’s not technilly a gay bar). Garlands Gut Hoe is a gay-owned B&B Leh, Edburgh.

Loted between Broughton Street and Leh Walk, the Pk Triangle has the bt selectn of Edburgh gay bars, and offers a great night out.

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In the centre of the Pk Triangle is CC Blooms, Edburgh’s olst gay bar and notor for their Tuday nights wh The Rabb Hole! This is a great Edburgh gay bar that guarante you’ll have a good time! Stayg open until 3am on Fridays and Saturdays, ’s one of the bt of Edburgh’s gay bars to spend your weekend wd-down after a long week of work.

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Wh regular drks promotns and equent live gigs, Habana is fely worth checkg out if you love Edburgh’s gay bars and vibrant nightlife. Pla equently hosts bgo, quizz and karaoke events, and is one of the most well-loved Edburgh gay bars.

Rose Street's Kenilworth pub was Edburgh's 'origal gay bar' and among a select band of boozers that extend a warm wele to the pal's gay muny prr to the Crimal Jtice (Stland) Act of 1980 g to effect.

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The popular cy centre hnt was well-known as a place where homosexual men and women the cy uld meet up and mgle an era when beg openly gay uld technilly see you fed and even imprisoned.

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READ MORE: Edburgh lols look back at cy's pneerg gay club Fire Island So famo was the Kenilworth, that 's even said mic legend and gay in Elton John vised 1976 - the year he revealed to the world he was bisexual.

It was all a far cry om the vibrant gay scene that Edburgh boasts today, centred around the multu of LGBTQI+ venu that make up Greensi's famo 'pk triangle', but back the seventi the lik of the Kenilworth and the Nelson Hotel the New Town was pretty much all there was. He scribed the experience of disverg a gay-iendly pub back those days as revelatory.

"The Kenilworth was really the first ma street bar that was openly gay and really showed that we were g out of the back streets and up ont and centre.

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For those the gay muny, this prented a b of a problem as there wasn't really anywhere else to go. "And that was where the gay muny met - Crawfords.

" The Kenilworth's time as a gay pub fizzled out towards the end of the 1970s, as Edburgh's gay scene branched out and expand wh the openg of the Lghg Duck at Howe Street and the ground breakg gay nightclub Fire Island on Prc Street. "It all changed though when there was a change management and the new people g weren't so gay-iendly. The Kenilworth had n s urse and sudnly there was a new bar on the block that was n by gay people.

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Hopefully we will be back XWrten July 5, 2022Good gay pub It’s difficult to judge what this place would be like “normally” as Covid chang have really been taken very serly ed here.

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I did like the fact that this is a gay PUB wh real ale, not a bar. There is a distct lack of tradnal pubs on the gay scene and I liked the atmosphere here, or I would have done if there was anyone else there. I feel sorry for the people of Edburgh if they thk this is a normal gay bar.

I didn't realise for a gay bar they uld be so nclive.

THE EDBURGH PUB THAT WAS ‘HIDN’ EPICENTRE OF CY’S GAY SCENE 1970S

Read our transparency report to learn 2021Or rather, is not a gay pub. It's a lovely pub wh gay people . Que a tradnal feel, but very young and h at the same time, Great gay vibe, but more a feelg of clivy than tryg to put any label on .

The Sttish pal is home to a handful of welg gay bars and clubs that guarantee a crackg night out. Check out our plete gui to the bt gay bars Edburgh and get ready to shimmy and shake until the early hours.