A Manc's gui to: the Gay Village, more than jt a party district

Contents:

• GAY VILLAGE
• GAY VILLAGE
• GAY VILLAGE
• GAY VILLAGE – MANCHTER
• [@]THE GAY VILLAGE - CANAL ST
• MAP OF THE GAY VILLAGE
• A MANC’S GUI TO: THE GAY VILLAGE, MORE THAN JT A LATE-NIGHT PARTY DISTRICT
• MAP OF THE GAY VILLAGE
• ALL ABOUT MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE

GAY VILLAGE

Gay Village is a neighbourhood Manchter, Greater Manchter. Gay Village is suated nearby to the neighbourhood Chatown and the suburb Manchter cy centre. Gay Village.

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GAY VILLAGE

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GAY VILLAGE

The Gay Village is an area central Manchter popular wh the gay and lbian muny and home to a large number of gay bars, hotels, shops, rtrants, and clubs.

There are several acmodatn optns the Gay Village self.

AXM100 Bloom StreetStylish gay bar and club. Cz 101101 Prcs StreetGay nightclub.

GAY VILLAGE – MANCHTER

Napoleons33 Bloom StreetThe olst venue the Gay Village.

This is the ma reason why the cy’s heart beats om the Gay Village. Suated jt off Portland Street, the space is home to everythg gay, lbian, bisexual and trans.

[@]THE GAY VILLAGE - CANAL ST

There’s never a bad time to vis the Gay Village. The Gay Village was built rponse to the LGBT stggle - and to this day there is a prevalent muny spir.

People me om near and far to have their voice heard while opposg anti-gay legislatn by marchg through the streets. Loted the middle of Canal-St Bar Pop is an Indie, Dis, Electro Homo, Mad Hip-Hop, BrPop, Funky, Kda Shagtastic QueerThg.

MAP OF THE GAY VILLAGE

New York New York is loted the heart of Manchter's famo gay village, we are known for our safe, iendly and welg space. On Bar is a new bar ncept brought to you by Orange Natn, the UK's biggt gay club promotn pany, and this is their first venue venture outsi of London.

Offerg a warm wele for everyone – boys or girls, gay or straight, and anyone between. After Chatown, there's more fun, excement and lor to be experienced at the village on Canal Street, known as "Manchter's world famo Gay Village".

Sce the begng of the 1990s, the area has evolved to be one of Europe's livelit gay districts, and enpass many bars, shops and rtrants. You n also display r parks The Gay Village, real-time traffic rmatn and petrol statns. Fally, you n view and book your choice of the MICHELIN rtrant selectns for The Gay Village, or book your The Gay Village hotel ee of charge (cludg MICHELIN Gui listed hotels).

A MANC’S GUI TO: THE GAY VILLAGE, MORE THAN JT A LATE-NIGHT PARTY DISTRICT

Known for s late-night clubs and cheap drks als, the Gay Village is popular wh Manchter partygoers - but there's more gog on behd the scen. Today, Manchter’s Gay Village is a verable party district.

The neighbourhood has weled a gay clientele sce the 1940s, but, by all acunts, ’s only the past twenty years or so that thgs have really started to turn a rner, spe homosexualy beg crimalised 1967. An excerpt om Mancunian Gay magaze 1984 tled ‘Not tonight, Anrton’ tells the story of how one night 20 pla cloth officers stormed to Napoleons and forced everyone attendance to provi their personal rmatn before beg allowed to leave – an cint that was later brand as “an obv se of police victimisatn” a prs release issued by the Gay Centre.

MAP OF THE GAY VILLAGE

In spe of this, the first Gay Pub and Club Olympics event (now thought of as the gural Manchter Pri) still went ahead on the Augt Bank Holiday weekend of 1985. Notably, had the support of a new generatn of Labour uncillors elected 1984 – who gave the gay muny their support and appoted Lbian and Gay officers. Inspired by Ken Livgstone‘s early days on the Greater London Council, those new uncillors created an Equal Opportuni Commtee and appoted Maggie Turner and Pl Fairweather what would prove a landmark move for gay rights the north of England.

1986 saw thgs gradually improve for the muny, as uncillors’ ‘put their arms around’ the gay muny, welg a Northern Pri event 1986 and ntributg public funds towards the celebratns. As the ’80s ntued, Manchter’s fight for gay rights ntued wh the Sectn 28 march 1988 actg as a huge turng pot as the Thatcher ernment’s dranian legislatn brought people out onto the streets to prott their drov. Still, wasn’t until the early neti that the Gay Village weled s first openly-gay bar and even then police raids the area ntued right up to 1994.

The battl agast stutnal homophobia were still beg fought, clearly, and some ntued to ll the Canal Street area ‘Satan’s Square Mile’ – but the openg of new nightclubs like Cz 101 and semal events Electric Chair and Poptastic saw the muny phg back. Repurposed at the end of the Indtrial Revolutn to a gay quarter that has sce bee one of the most famo the world, Manchter has a lot of thgs to be proud of – and the village is fely up there wh the bt.

ALL ABOUT MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE

Habha – A hidn foodie gem the heart of the gay village, the Ethpian rtrant Habha ss above a pretty n-of-the-l takeaway and is que easy to miss. Read more: The Ethpian rtrant hidn above a takeaway Manchter’s gay village.