The first gay pub I dared set foot now has a rabow plaque. Here’s why that matters | Gary Nunn | The Guardian

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• THE BEST HATON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS HATON
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• THE 5 BEST ONTAR GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ONTAR
• THE BEST HATON GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS HATON
• THE BEST HATON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS HATON
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• THE BEST HATON GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS HATON

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Frankly, I’d have served a prison jt for him to hold my hand, like he did his off-whe Vxhall Nova on the drive there, breakg only to change, he took me for strawberry cir the Gloucter, a pub at the park’s edge, takg my tremblg hand his and reassurg me: “It’s actually a gay bar.

Gay pubs are far more than bars; they’re refug.

On Sunday, the first a new seri of rabow plaqu will be stalled at the Gloucter – now the Greenwich Tavern – cementg s place gay home the workg-class Medway area of Kent, where we met when he sold me a phone cred rd at the lol petrol statn, “queers” like were wily perceived as predatory, perverted, spic or simply scum. ”After the strawberry cir, served by a man a tight whe vt – the only other gay man I’d seen real life – the squiggly summer sunlight ma a strobe effect through the park’s tre. The first time I saw wh him, when I was 18, I realised he had echoed the love story of the two protagonists, who also had their first kiss the twilight of Greenwich Park’s tre, and their first experience of a gay pub at the Gloucter.

THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

The explanatn for his obssn is now clear: there was such a pcy of same-sex love stori that this was the first time many young people had seen a same-sex kiss, or peeked si an actual gay bar after dark. The project remds people “that we have always been here, good tim and bad, ” David Robson of the London LGBT+ Foms’ Network said when the plaqu were film and my own story were workg-class gay love: not dandyish and sheltered by the polse of privilege, but the btal realy of beg perceived a non-mascule boy. It was a powerful and rarely told tersectn – and one that, even more rarely, ends rather happily, wh a betiful scene of fiance and acceptance played to a Mama Cass waltz on the sk I disvered that I wasn’t the only wi-eyed baby gay my boyiend had been chasg through those ancient chtnuts that summer.

For me, the plaque honours that private moment as well as the shared history of the LGBTQ+ ’s the msage I’d impart to anyone who thks such symbols are meangls, as the unique social history of the UK’s gay bars is endangered by gentrifitn, hook-up apps, the st of livg crisis and even assiatn.

Like many workg-class, closeted gay boys, I’d hi unr the glovebox of my boyiend’s Nova when we drove back om the park, lt anyone saw. It whispered to ckney-accented gay boys like me: there are others like you. Are there any gay bars Haton?

MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS

HatonIn a cy wh few overtly gay bs and bars, grassroots meetup groups are brgg the muny before the panmic, the number of LGBTQ-centred spac the cy had cled, event host saysPeople gather at Gage Park on July 18, 2021, for the gural meetup of Haton Queer Hangs.

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(Addison Brash)In about six years livg Haton, Sarah Barnhart had only attend a few LGBTQ events — and none specifilly for a cy wh few overtly gay bs and bars, she'd gotten ed to fdg muny other ways, such as at the queer-foced exercise class she teach for Goodbodyfeel stud, which the days, happens onle.

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Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was dgged at the Q, a gay bar near the Rz, and was found ad five days later, his fay fai of both men disvered that money had been taken om their acunts after they died.

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The documents said the assailants appeared to be motivated by money and not bias, and that attacks took place at tablishments that tered to both gay and straight patrons.

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Umberger led other New Yorkers to e forward wh stori of beg dgged and robbed at gay bars the cy. Several gay men who told The Tim they had been dgged said the police did not take their claims asked on Tuday if the police rponse had been fluenced by bias, Commissner Keechant L. Image source, Andy Trigg/BBCImage ptn, The mural took the graffi artist eight hours to pleteA mural of Jt Fashanu, the first profsnal football player to e out as gay, has been pated on the si of a pub Norwich.

Fashanu grew up Norfolk and signed for Norwich the late source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Former Norwich Cy striker Jt Fashanu me out as gay 1990 while still playg profsnal football"He means a lot to a lot of people, pecially Norfolk, " said Christian Hodgkson, landlord of the Fat Cat and Canary on Thorpe Road, close to the cy centre stadium.

"Beg the first player to e out as gay, and obvly beg black as well, he faced a lot of adversy.

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