THE 10 BEST Brighton and Hove Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

Contents:

• WHERE IS BRIGHTON'S CUTTG-EDGE GAY THEATRE?
• WHY IS ROCHFORD ENGLAND’S STRAIGHTT PLACE AND BRIGHTON S GAY PAL?
• THE 10 BEST BRIGHTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BRIGHTON
• BRIGHTON GAY MAP
• THE 10 BEST BRIGHTON AND HOVE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BRIGHTON AND HOVE
• GAY BRIGHTON

WHERE IS BRIGHTON'S CUTTG-EDGE GAY THEATRE?

1986 a televisn documentary programme reported that there was an timated populatn of gay men Brighton of 15, 000 [2]. The Brighton Ourstory Project was set up to llect and prerve the lbian and gay history muny the area, but closed 2013. In 2022 the film My Policeman starrg Harry Styl as a 1950s Brighton gay police officer, was set the area of Brighton and adjog Lew District Council area.

WHY IS ROCHFORD ENGLAND’S STRAIGHTT PLACE AND BRIGHTON S GAY PAL?

Brighton has long been noted for s active gay scene, wh a large number of gay venu, several of them the Kemp Town area.

St Jam's Street hosts a number of gay venu, of which the Bulldog claims to be Brighton's longt-nng gay bar. The Queen's Head, not far om St Jam's Street, was a gay pub for a number of years.

Brighton and Hove Sea Serpents is a gay gby club, found 2015. ↑ Brighton 'has most gay upl'.

THE 10 BEST BRIGHTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BRIGHTON

↑ Gareth Davi, "Landmark is cy's first gay gby team pete gural match" Eveng Arg, 22 Febary 2016. The latt England and Wal cens data revealed what many have known for many moons and rabows: Brighton and Hove is one the gayt plac the UK.

Unsurprisgly, ’s here that the majory of the gay attractns ri: bars, clubs, rtrants, hotels, and beach areas are signated as primarily aimed at our LGBTQ+ cy is the midst of a wele urban regeneratn and new-opengs boom.

BRIGHTON GAY MAP

And, of urse, Brighton’s nudist beach (which attracts many a gay man) is jt a flip-flop skip away. Dpe all the rehments, echo of Brighton’s gay and lbian past are palpable.

THE 10 BEST BRIGHTON AND HOVE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BRIGHTON AND HOVE

Ftival at The Royal PavilnAlamyThe Queer QuarterBrighton’s gay village is ntled around Kemptown’s St.

GAY BRIGHTON

A new venue, Glamoro Bar, is due to open on the se of Lé Village gay pub later 2023. Further to Kemptown, The Camelford Arms is metr om the sea and serv giant portns of pub gb bare brick, warm surroundgs; Fallen Angel is gay-owned and sy; and the new Malta-spired Arbaleno is on a missn to ‘refe queer culture’ (more on that a b)’s a ttament to the cy’s gay iendls that the venu oppose Brighton’s Gra I-listed Pier are floor-to-ceilg wdowed, out and proud and promently beach hut along the promena of Hove seaont, BrightonAlamyAnd there’s more, over towards Hove, where you’ll fd the sy Bedford Tavern, snug drag venue The Grosvenor (cue Sondheim and sequs!

Addrs: Tutto, 20–22 Marlborough Place, Brighton BN1 1UBWebse: bang the heart of St Jam’s Street, Block is Ben Gill and Kim Doherty’s ‘urban day club’ cked out wh pk furnure and walls, and artworks of gay ins, cludg Freddie Mercury and Grace Jon by The Postman. Although not strictly a gay bar, ’s the heart of the gay village and supports the LGBTQ+ muny wh regular donatns to lol chari.

Addrs: Club Revenge, 32-34 Old Stee, Brighton BN1 1ELWebse: ParlourThe Plottg ParlourThis atmospheric, gothic-dream-dér speakeasy-style cktail bar is perfectly placed a si street near the entrance to the Gay Village for a fill of sensatnal, mixologist-signed drks. Follow the footsteps of the early Gay Liberatn Front members, stand where some of the first legal civil partnerships took place, and explore the oft-fotten stori of figur cludg thor Aubrey Beardsley, 19th-Century trans man Colonel Barker and Anne Lister, known as ‘the first morn lbian’.