A Gay Friendly Place - Full of Straights - Review of The Flag Worcter, Worcter, England - Tripadvisor

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• A GAY FRIENDLY PLACE - FULL OF STRAIGHTS - THE FLAG WORCTER
• GAY BARS AND PUBS WORCTER WORCTERSHIRE
• THE FLAG, WORCTER'S GAY BAR
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• A GAY FRIENDLY PLACE - FULL OF STRAIGHTS - THE FLAG WORCTER
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

A GAY FRIENDLY PLACE - FULL OF STRAIGHTS - THE FLAG WORCTER

No wonr the Worcter gay scene is so bad. Attu om door staff and gay venue Worcter and they’re very selective on who they let and entry charge, only opens at 10pm off gog to other pubs and then onto velvet/tramps nightclub Worcter.

Read our transparency report to learn 2022 • CouplIt’s a really, really borg and lifels placeI’ve been on gay scen all over the for over 25 years but Worcter is sperately lackg LGBT bars and clubs Shame reallyWrten 10 September 2022This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. The Brewery Tap was a flagship gay iendly pub Worcter wh maly gay clientele, somewhere safe and secure to have a pt, chat and so, sce ’s re-brandg a uple of years ago, the clientele are ore straight, the qu are longer (as a rult) and the bt way to the ont is if you are on the owner’s “VIP Gut List” aka A Bar Fly. After qug for over an hour (and seeg the price change om £3 to £5 for entry for the privilege of wag, you are greeted wh the strange feelg that the ctomer’s om the The Pig and Dm (now the The Alma) oppose, have all migrated across the road durg their Venue or Gay iendly...

GAY BARS AND PUBS WORCTER WORCTERSHIRE

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THE FLAG, WORCTER'S GAY BAR

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Food, Gay Friendly, Real Ale. 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.

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

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 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.

A GAY FRIENDLY PLACE - FULL OF STRAIGHTS - THE FLAG WORCTER

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.

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

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.