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the gay traitor hacienda

A new BBC documentary cements the dull cult of nostalgia around Manchter’s acid hoe scene, neglectg the black, gay culture at s heart.

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FAC 51 THE HACIENDA > THE GAY TRAOR

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The cktail list om the Gay Traor bar (tail).

Negative photograph of Anthony Blunt as featured on the Gay Traor cktail bar list om FAC 51 The Haçienda. “There was no VIP room so you would fd yourself talkg to Tony Wilson The Gay Traor Bar about mic, polics or life. - The three bars at the club were lled The Gay Traor, The Kim Philby and Hicks, referenc to Anthony Blunt, a Brish art historian who spied for the Soviet Unn, and his acplic.

THE GAY TRAOR

The cktail list om the Gay Traor bar FAC 51 The Hacienda * the gay traitor hacienda *

ImagCreativeVioCreativeEdorialTwo young women at the entrance to The Gay Traor cktail bar at The Hacienda nightclub, Manchter, 1983.

(Photo by Kev Cumms/Getty Imag)Two young women at the entrance to The Gay Traor cktail bar at The Hacienda nightclub, Manchter, 1983. Friends The Hacienda Gay Traor Bar 1982.

The Hacienda Gay Traor Bar 1982.

THE GAY TRAOR HAçIENDA COCKTAIL LIST

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The Hacienda, Gay Traor Bar, 1987. “Mancunian iends the Gay Traor bar the basement of The Haçienda, Manchter, 1987. Cocktail list for the Gay Traor bar.

Cocktail nam clu: Sex Mache, Anthony Wilson, Blue Monday, A Gay Traor, The Old And The New, A Perfect Kiss, Dutti Column, Fac 51 and Temperance Club Driver. The great artist and film maker Derek Jarman and the wonrful actrs Margi Clarke the Gay Traor bar, The Haçienda, Manchter, at an early Flh night. GAY TRAITOR TS COLLECTORS EDITION (RED).

DEREK JARMAN AND MARGI CLARKE THE GAY TRAOR BAR THE HAçIENDA, MANCHTER

FAC 51 The Haçienda. Cocktail list for the Gay Traor bar. Cocktail nam clu: Sex Mache, Anthony Wilson, Blue Monday, A Gay Traor, The Old And The New, A Perfect Kiss, Dutti Column, Fac 51 and Temperance Club Driver. 1988-ish." data-dynamic="te * the gay traitor hacienda *

Mark Jordan (Hacienda regular) “In the early days, most of took refuge downstairs the Gay Traor as the ma dance floor was always really ld. A lot of down to the arrival of new general manager, Pl Mason the January of 1986 along wh Pl Cons handlg prs and promotns who beme the gui for the clubs gay nights and fluence which ultimately beme “Flh”.

GAY TRAITOR TS COLLECTORS EDITION (RED)

The start of the week saw Pl Cons’ Gay Monday brg the fluence of Canal Street to the club, Mart Prenrgast’s Tuday club dispensed psycheli and rock and Thursdays beme Temperance Club om May onwards. Many a dnken night was spent watchg gigs and staggerg up and down the stairs, om the Gay Traor bar to the dance floor. PAUL Cons, promoter of Flh night - a popular gay night at The Hacienda, will be at MOSI on Friday 8 Febary to share memori of this groundbreakg night over cktails spired by the menu at the ‘Gay Traor Bar’.

Pl will discs the legacy of Flh today for the gay muny, while MOSI’s current exhibn about the history of Manchter’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny, ‘Behd the Scene’, cludg publicy material om Flh, will also be open.

The event is part of Lbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgenr Month. Although there had prevly been a gay night at The Hacienda, had never attracted a large crowd, but the early neti, attus started to change. Flh, held every month at The Hacienda nightclub om 1991-1996 beme central to a nfint and vibrant new gay scene Manchter and ntributed to wir legal and social reforms that led to lowerg of the age of nsent, and gay marriage.

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