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• EASTENRS NFIRMS THE NAME OF THE SOAP'S NEW GAY BAR
• EASTENRS REVEALS NAME OF WALFORD’S NEW GAY BAR
• EASTENRS REVEALS THE NAME OF ALBERT SQUARE’S FIRST EVER GAY BAR
• IF EASTENRS WERE REAL LIFE, S NEW GAY BAR WOULD CLOSE DOWN AFTER SIX MONTHS DUE TO GENTRIFITN
• FIRST LOOK AT EASTENRS' NEW GAY BAR - THE PRCE ALBERT
• AN EASTENRS GAY BAR? I AM WORRIED
• THE NAME OF EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY BAR HAS BEEN REVEALED
• EASTENRS: GAY BAR TO OPEN ON ALBERT SQUARE AS BBC SERI PREPAR TO TRODUCE MORE LGBT+ CHARACTERS
• EASTENRS TO FEATURE FIRST GAY BAR ON ALBERT SQUARE
• EASTENRS TO FEATURE FIRST GAY BAR ON ALBERT SQUARE
• KATHY UNVEILS THE PRCE ALBERT EASTENRS – WALFORD’S FIRST GAY BAR
• EASTENRS REVEALS NAME OF WALFORD’S NEW GAY BAR
• EASTENRS SPOILERS: THE NAME OF KATHY BEALE’S GAY BAR IS REVEALED

EASTENRS NFIRMS THE NAME OF THE SOAP'S NEW GAY BAR

The buildg currently ho The Prce Albert, a gay bar, owned by Kathy Beale. When Kathy Beale disvered her necklace is worth £100, 000, she sells , the money to buy the lease of the Albert, renam s The Prce Albert and turns to a gay bar. Kathy asks Ta Carter to bee the manager bee she has a knowledge of the 'gay scene' - she remaed the manager until her ath 2020.

EASTENRS REVEALS NAME OF WALFORD’S NEW GAY BAR

Gay Bar.

EastEnrs is gog to make history this year by openg up Albert Square's first gay bar — and now, that club has an official name! Vcent was most recently forced to sell The Albert to Aidan Maguire (Patrick Berg) when he ran afoul of the gangster's crimal operatn, wh the property now landg Kathy's opens, The Prce Albert will make history for EastEnrs as be the first UK soap to have a gay bar wh s permanent club's ownership will be all the more special nsirg will be opened by Kathy Beale, one of the few EastEnrs origal characters left on Albert Square some 34 years after s premiere 1985. EastEnrs fans are set to see a brand new gay bar open up Walford – and the name has fally been revealed.

The show’s new boss Kate Oat, who revamped ITV’s Coronatn Street, said she was keen to pot out that a gay kiss should not be nsired “shockg televisn, ” wants to add more LGBT+ characters, too. “We’re lookg at openg a gay bar on the Square which will be a super-ol precct where gay and straight characters n all jt hang out, ” Oat ntued.

EASTENRS REVEALS THE NAME OF ALBERT SQUARE’S FIRST EVER GAY BAR

EastEnrs first troduced a gay character—Col Rsell, played by Michael Cashman, 1986. It was Col who was first volved the show’s first gay kiss, broadsted 30 years ago.

The brief peck on the lips between Col and his boyiend Guido Smh (Nicholas Donovan) ed an uproar 1989 Bra, where the ernment of Margaret Thatcher had recently troduced Sectn 28, a ntroversial law banng lol thori and schools om “promotg” homosexualy. The show also tackled issu such as homophobic crime, which end tragedy the romance between the popular gay uple Ben Mchell and Pl Coker.

IF EASTENRS WERE REAL LIFE, S NEW GAY BAR WOULD CLOSE DOWN AFTER SIX MONTHS DUE TO GENTRIFITN

Memorable LGBTQ moments EastEnrs historyEastEnrs has been on our screens for more than 35 years – that time, the Walford-based soap has bee one of Bra’s most inic TV shows.Sce s but 1985, EastEnrs has never shied away om hard-htg storyl and has been at the foreont of LGBTQ reprentatn on screen.BBC Bize tak a look at some of the most memorable LGBTQ moments om the BBC One show’s history.First gay kiss on a Brish soapCol Rsell was the first gay character on EastEnrs, appearg Albert Square jt over a year after the show’s first episo.Played by Michael Cashman, there was ntroversy at the time when Col kissed boyiend Barry Clark (Gary Hail) 1987 – even though was jt a peck on the forehead.Col (Michael Cashman) and Barry (Gary Hall) were EastEnrs' first gay uple.Two years later, Col and new character Guido Smh (Nicholas Donovan) shared the first mouth-to-mouth kiss on a Brish soap – an timated 17 ln people tuned to watch the uple’s kiss.It beme one of the most ground-breakg scen soap history – but was emed so ntroversial that some MPs lled for the soap to be pulled om the air.Landmark LGBTQ charactersIn 2009, Syed Masood (Marc Ellt) arrived Walford, battlg wh his Mlim fah and sexualy. Syed tells Christian he is gay and love wh him – but unr prsure om his fay, gets married to Amira.His feelgs for Christian prove too strong – so Syed out. Mick held his teenage son his arms to liver a tear-jerkg speech, tellg Johnny that he loved him and there was nothg bad about beg gay, supportg him to e out through both of their stifled tears.Johnny Carter (played by Sam Strike, send om left) and dad Mick (Danny Dyer, centre) both ma their first appearanc the soap December 2013.Johnny’s mother Lda (Kellie Bright) ially stggled wh his sexualy – but the pair eventually make up as she tak him to his first Pri event where he meets new boyiend Gianlu Cavallo (Gabriele Lombardo).First transgenr character played by transgenr actorKyle Slater’s arrival Albert Square was a landmark moment for EastEnrs.It marked the first time Brish soap history that a transgenr character had been played by a transgenr actor, wh Riley Carter Millgton takg on the historic role.Kyle’s first appearanc showed him followg Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner) before he later reveals he is her long-lost half-brother and the pair ultimately une.After sharg his story wh Stacey, Kyle reveals that his mother Alison (Denise Welch) has never seen him as a man.

Alison eventually acknowledg Kyle as a man shortly before he leav Walford for a job France.Walford’s first Gay PriIn July 2019, Walford threw s first-ever Gay Pri event, wh an episo tacklg a number of LGBTQ issu.Airg ahead of London’s Gay Pri event, the episo was seen as celebratory, diverse and tnal, but also clud moments that remd the dience of the prejudice and discrimatn still faced by the LGBTQ muny to this day.In the inic episo, Bernatte Taylor (Clair Norris) embrac her sexualy while celebratg her first Pri, havg e out as a lbian to her mother six months earlier, while Callum Highway (Tony Clay) stggl to e to terms wh his new feelgs.Callum, also known as Halfway, was engaged to Whney Dean (Shona McGarty) at the time of Pri and was helpg to get everythg anised for the big event.

But he was mortified when brother Stuart (Ricky Champ) turned up and told him he saw him kissg Ben Mchell (Max Bown) the night before.It's been que the journey for Ben Mchell (Max Bown, pictured) and Callum Highway (Tony Clay), who recently got engaged the show.While the urse of te love didn’t always n smoothly for Callum and Ben – Stuart beat up Ben later the Pri episo - the fan favoure duo went on to bee a uple, wh the pair eventually proposg to each other on the balny of lol gay bar The Prce Albert. Walford’s first ever gay bar officially has a name.

FIRST LOOK AT EASTENRS' NEW GAY BAR - THE PRCE ALBERT

We’re lookg at openg a gay bar on the Square which will be a super-ol precct where gay and straight characters n all jt hang out.

AN EASTENRS GAY BAR? I AM WORRIED

The Prce Albert will be a landmark moment for the show as will bee the first gay bar UK soap history. In 1987, Eastenrs featured s first ever gay kiss between Col Rsell (Michael Cashman) and Barry Clark (Gary Hail), but was jt a peck on the forehead. After much fanfare EastEnrs' new gay bar will open the g weeks, and the show has end fan speculatn by nfirmg the name of the nightspot - The Prce Beale (Gillian Taylforth) will be charge of the bar, on the se of hipster hangout The Albert, last seen when n by Kim Fox-Hubbard (Tameka Empson) and hband Vcent Hubbard (Richard Blackwood) before he beme embroiled wh gangster Aidan Maguire (Patrick Bergen) who forced him to sell up 2018.

EastEnrs announc plans for Albert Square's first gay barLisa Fowler to expose Sharon and Keanu affair EastEnrs when she returns? Havg sold the em of jewellery, and heard her gay son lament the lack of opportuni to meet a man his own manor, sudnly-wealthy Kath has nabbed the lease to the empty buildg and cid to turn to the first gay bar soap to be part of the regular addn of 'Prce' to the name may be a nod to Kathy hopg her sgle son meets his own Prce Charmg once the venue opens s doors…How long have EastEnrs planned to have a gay bar?

“I’m terted brgg some LGBTQ characters and lookg at openg a gay bar on the Square, " said the soap boss, who has also enjoyed succsful stts producg rivals Coronatn Street and Emmerdale, "a super-ol precct where gay and straight characters n hang out and loads of stori n cross.

THE NAME OF EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY BAR HAS BEEN REVEALED

”EastEnrs will also feature s first Gay Pri para later this summer to ci wh London's Pri event early 's the history of The Prce Albert? EastEnrs is planng to stall a gay bar on Albert Square, and I’m worried. Am I worried bee executive producer Kate Oat has scribed the gay bar as “a super-ol precct where gay and straight characters n all jt hang out”, which seems to operate on the false assumptn that EastEnrs is actually a lower-ng 1990s s about peppy New Yorkers?

I worried bee the revenue potential for an EastEnrs gay bar is extraordarily low, given that there only tends to be one same-sex uple on the show every six or seven years, and their love is always full of torment and anguish, which don’t tomatilly lend self to happy-hour fun tim?

Maly I’m worried bee the EastEnrs gay bar is a liberate attempt to reflect what life is actually like morn-day London. First there’s a gay bar, but then what?

EASTENRS: GAY BAR TO OPEN ON ALBERT SQUARE AS BBC SERI PREPAR TO TRODUCE MORE LGBT+ CHARACTERS

It’s a fx-Dickensian fairy story that only exists thanks to an exhstg llective spensn of disbelief, and anythg that chips away at that – a gay bar, more than one black fay livg there at a time, serviceable public transportatn lks, Pret, Netflix, an efficient police force pable of arrtg any of the three dozen murrers who rema on the loose Albert Square, nng water, basic human happs – will ultimately brg about s end. The name of the new gay bar on one of the UK’s most beloved TV soap operas has been revealed. A gay bar is to open on Albert Square to reflect the diversy of London, the new executive producer of EastEnrs has Oat recently joed the show om Coronatn Street and she said she has big plans to champn a vio posted on the EastEnrs Twter page, she said: "I am really terted brgg some more LGBTQ characters , and maybe we will have a new precct for them as well.

"We are lookg at openg a gay bar on the square which will be a super-ol precct where gay and straight characters n all jt hang out and loads of stori n cross and should jt be somethg really excg, really fun, really visual and feel really te to multicultural London.

EASTENRS TO FEATURE FIRST GAY BAR ON ALBERT SQUARE

Eastenrs Ben Mchell and Pl Coker were a popular gay uple on the show, which is soon to feature a gay bar.

An unnamed source told The Sun that EastEnrs producers are lookg to e the gay bar as the backdrop to new storyl.

EASTENRS TO FEATURE FIRST GAY BAR ON ALBERT SQUARE

Albert Square’s first gay bar will open soon on EastEnrs, a move meant to help the BBC show reflect London’s diversy more accurately.

The show’s new boss Kate Oat, who recently revamped ITV’s Coronatn Street and was keen to pot out that a gay kiss should not be nsired “shockg televisn, ” wants to add more LGBT+ characters, too.

KATHY UNVEILS THE PRCE ALBERT EASTENRS – WALFORD’S FIRST GAY BAR

“We’re lookg at openg a gay bar on the Square which will be a super-ol precct where gay and straight characters n all jt hang out, ” Oat ntu, addg: “It should be somethg really excg, really fun, really visual and feel really te to multi-cultural London. EastEnrs aired first gay kiss three s ago.

EASTENRS REVEALS NAME OF WALFORD’S NEW GAY BAR

EastEnrs first troduced a gay character—Col Rsell, played by Michael Cashman, 1986. “We’re lookg at openg a gay bar on the Square which will be a super-ol precct where gay and straight characters n all jt hang out. The brief, chaste peck on the lips between Col and his boyiend Guido Smh (Nicholas Donovan) ed an uproar 1989 Bra, where the ernment of Margaret Thatcher had recently troduced Sectn 28, a ntroversial law banng lol thori and schools om “promotg” homosexualy.

EASTENRS SPOILERS: THE NAME OF KATHY BEALE’S GAY BAR IS REVEALED

The homosexual love scene between yuppie poofs was screened the early eveng when lns of children were watchg. The show also tackled issu such as homophobic crime, which end tragedy the romance between the popular gay uple Ben Mchell and Pl Coker. EastEnrs gay bar to provi backdrop to new storyl.

While 2017 Albert Square’s inic pub the Queen Vic celebrated 50th years sce the crimalisatn of homosexualy, a gay bar would be a first for EastEnrs rints.

Why is the Eastenrs gay bar nsired gentrifitn?