Edburgh's Gay Scene

Contents:

• 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. 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.

THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH

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. Edburgh’s bt gay bars and clubs have relaxed atmospher, welg staff, and iendly patrons.

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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).

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.

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

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. 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.

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The Kenilworth had n s urse and sudnly there was a new bar on the block that was n by gay people. 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. 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.

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 .

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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.

CC Blooms is a vibrant gay bar that treats every night as if 's the weekend. Though technilly not advertisg self as a gay bar, The Theatre Royal Bar ss alongsi some of Edburgh's biggt LGBTQ+ venu and has bee a favoure for s buzzg atmosphere and iendly regulars. While not billed as a gay bar, Paradise Palms is another well-loved spot amongst the cy's LGBTQ+ muny.

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Right next door to CC Bloom’s you’ll fd Pla, Edburgh’s longt nng gay bar. Centred around an area lled the Pk Triangle between Broughton Street and Leh Walk, Edburgh's gay scene is all about late-night fun and drkg. The big event the Gay lenr is the Pri Stia held June, a huge annual ftival held alternatively Edburgh and Glasgow.

Our gui to Edburgh's gay scene clus on the pubs, bars and clubs that are gay and lbian iendly. Gay Clubs & Bars Edburgh. There are many gay or gay-iendly fés, bars and rtrants on Broughton St and several of the are listed elsewhere the 'Eatg', 'Cafés' and 'Bars' sectns.

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Gay-n but straight-iendly fé that's always by. Betifully ntlg on the Broughton Street, this jewel of a place among the lol gay and lbian muni has a lot to offer. Comfortable and laid-back spot overlookg the garn behd the Gay and Lbian Centre.

Strobe lights were flashg & mic blarg at the well known Gay Pub Edburgh, hoehold to one of the hottt party scen A Gay Pub Edburgh n be scribed wh other nam such as queer bar, lbian bar, drag bar, & dyke bar, based on niche muni Most club & pubs, gay bars variety by way of size om ltle, 5-seat bars, big, multi-story clubs wh numero distct regns & far more than one dance 2023You will be amazed wh the parti that some gay clubs Edburgh prent. Que numbers of gay clubs pop up everywhere worldwi now, even remote stat where you unr no circumstanc noticed. Across our ci you’ll fd a range of gay bars and rtrants, offerg a fun and lively scene for your break away.

UNDERGROUND This gay bar Glasgow’s Merchant Cy is a rehg addn to the LGBTQ+ night life. Vis Unrground DELMONICA’S Offerg a welg LGBTQ+ place sce 1991, this boozy gay bar serv up a range of fun and uy cktails and hand-fished pizzas. Vis Delmoni’s THE WATERLOO Triple award-wng and the olst gay bar Glasgow, the Waterloo don’t disappot!

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Vis The Waterloo AXM Glasgow Brand ‘Stland’s biggt and bt LGBTQ+ nightclub’, this gay bar and club has gaed a signifint reputatn for beg a iendly, fun and attu-ee place to be Glasgow. CC Blooms CC Blooms is somethg of an stutn, havg been a val part of the gay scene Edburgh for more than two s.

Vis The Street THE REGENT Dubbed ‘the bt real ale gay pub Edburgh’, this relaxed, dog-iendly bar has twice won CAMRA’s Edburgh Pub of the Year Award. CHEERZ Bar and Club CHEERZ was tablished 1996 and has been at the heart of Aberen’s small but welg gay scene for the bt part of two s.

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

THE SALTY DOG Head to Crichton Street to this small but top-rated LGBTQ+ iendly gay bar Dune. Head along to Dune’s gay nightclub wh a lourful atmosphere, a variety of drks, and a mix of mic. NightlifeIt’s been 50 years sce the Stonewall rts New York that triggered the ternatnal gay, we have Pri paras takg place all around the world.

They reprent lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer social and self acceptance, achievements, legal rights and pri. Ahead of Pri Edburgh on June 22nd, we asked Eveng News rears for their remendatns for bt cy pubs to celebrate Habana
Cafe Habana is close to the Omni Centre, like many other gay bars the cy. ”Vis 23-24 Greensi Place, Edburgh EH1 3AA, 0131 556 9331Pla BarRegent Bar, 2 Montrose Terrace, Edburgh EH7 5DLAs the cy’s longt nng gay bar, this is an ial venue to celebrate Pri Edburgh 2019.