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Contents:

• GAY JOHANNBURG
• GAY NIGHTLIFE JOHANNBURG
• VIBRANT CLUBS, BARS AND RTRANTS – THIS IS GAY-IENDLY JOHANNBURG
• A HILBROW MIXTAPE: THE HISTORY OF SKYLE, SA'S LONGT NNG GAY BAR
• VIBRANT CLUBS, BARS AND RTRANTS – THIS IS GAY-IENDLY JOHANNBURG
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY JOHANNBURG · MID-RANGE HOTELS
• TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN JOHANNBURG
• JOHANNBURG GAY BAR & CLUB
• JOHANNBURG GAY MAP
• JOHANNBURG GAY SNAS
• GAY SOUTH AI

GAY JOHANNBURG

Gay Johannburg. South Ai has one of the world's most progrsive nstutns specifilly givg gays and lbians equal rights and makg illegal to discrimate agast people based on their sexual orientatn.

For cizens and foreign visors South Ai is the most gay-iendly untry Ai.

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There is no one part of Johannburg which n be nsired as a gay neighbourhood, wh the cy's relatively few gay bars and gay-iendly venu sttered throughout Joburg. September is Pri month South Ai wh the biggt Gay Pri March the untry ually takg place Johannburg northern suburbs the end of September. Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728).

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THE REC ROOM has been the largt and bit mens steam room Johannburg and the Gteng Provce for nearly two pri ourselv on the hight standards of hygiene and we actively promote a healthy liftyle a safe and secure environment for gay and bisexual men.

THE REC ROOM has been the largt and bit mens sna Johannburg and the Gteng Provce for nearly two pri ourselv on the hight standards of hygiene and we actively promote a healthy liftyle a safe and secure environment for gay and bisexual men. Bee hot and exced Johannburg’s cleant and bit gay steam room plex. WWhile there are exclively lbian and gay clubs and bars South Ai’s ci, there are also many tablishments that, along wh members of the LGTBQ+ muni, wele anyone who wants to party the night away.

South Ai is known as a gay-iendly statn and Johannburg is no exceptn.

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H-Bar is a popular part of the gay and lbian party scene. Also Johannburg, Simply Blue has a reputatn as a leadg gay bar. There’s also an exclive bar at the REC Room and Factory is another men-only bar next to Ellis Park Sports Ai has one of the most progrsive nstutns the world: homosexualy is legal; same-sex adoptns were legalised 2003; and, only two years later 2005, gay civil marriag beme legal.

Johannburg epomis this forward-thkg approach, and although jt lost out by a whisker to Cologne for the 2010 Gay Gam, hosts The Out Ai Internatnal Gay and Lbian Film Ftival held yearly, whilst s annual Joburg Pri March first h the Joburg streets 1990, before the current nstutn me to force. Today, the Joburg Pri event has grown to Ai’s olst and biggt celebratn of gay and lbian pri and attracts thoands of people, not only om South Ai but om all over the world. Gay and lbian muni happily live all of South Ai’s major ci, cludg Johannburg, but what you’ll fd is that Joburg is an tegrated cy wh ltle or no discrimatn agast gay people who equent most rtrants, bars and clubs.

There’s no shortage of nightlife that brims wh cemas, theatr, bars, nightclubs, sos and a lively gay club life where you n go to themed parti, township venu or jt dance the night away.

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JOBURG GAY PRIDE – FOURWAYS. Brought to you by the creators of Risque, Qc, The Fireman’s Ball, Babylon and Pretoria Pri, Joburg Gay Pri is a Pri celebratn Fourways. WWhile there are exclively lbian and gay clubs and bars South Ai’s ci, there are also many tablishments that, along wh members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muni, wele anyone who wants to party the night away.

The thrivg nightlife South Ai’s ci clus several clubs, pubs and venu that ter for the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny.

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CCape Town, which was recently regnised by the Uned Kgdom’s Guardian newspaper as one of the 10 most popular gay statns the world, has many venu to choose om. In Johannburg, Ratz Bar Melville is a popular part of the gay and lbian nightlife scene.

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South Ai also has a wi variety of gay-iendly lodg, hotels and gut ho. A relic that hts at the Harrison Reef Hotel’s important history is Skyle Bar, one of South Ai’s longt-nng gay bars. This is also where the cy’s first church that affirmed the black lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer (LGBTIQ) muny was suated.

The Butterfly Bar, as was lled, was a wh-only tablishment, terg to the growg whe gay muny. The cheap and small flats Hillbrow enuraged young gays and lbians to move away om their fay hom and live penntly. Like Butterfly, the bars that sprang up Hillbrow the 70s created a home for gay and lbian people a cy that shunned them.

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However, this home wasn’t welg to all; was only 1985 that the bar started to serve black gay men. At the time, Hillbrow and The Butterfly Bar were not welg spac for black gays and OUT: Tel Aviv Pri: Largt LGBT movement Middle East to be shared live*Fast-forward ssette*In 1987, Butterfly moved upstairs and changed s name to Skyle Bar. In the late 80s, was a meetg place for gay activists, drag queens, rent boys (male prostut) and regular middle-aged men.

It was the mid-80s that black South Ains began movg to Hillbrow, fyg the Group Areas that time, Skyle was one of the few plac the cy where gay men of different rac uld meet or hook-up.

Patrons scribed Skyle as eedom; a place where gay men uld be ee to exprs themselv, away om the discrimatn they experienced their hom, muni and plac of worship. (Photo: Gay & Lbian Memory Actn)The church emerged a ntext where same-sex sexualy and genr diversy were viewed as unAin and unChristian.

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The story go that the pastors would go there the early hours of a Sunday to ve patrons of Skyle to pray after their late-night mark this rich history, at the Pri March 1999, the Cy of Johannburg named the rner of Twist and Pretoria streets after Simon Nkoli an anti-apartheid and queer rights activist who helped to dispel the myth that same-sex sexualy and genr diversy were #LoveSA: Pk Loeri mak history by hostg 10th Mr Gay World petn KnysnaHe also nnected the gay and lbian movement to the anti-apartheid movement visible ways. Accumulatg stori, adaptg to new purpos, wrg over self new CHECK OUT: Yeah for Gay: Cape Town beach voted 6th bt the worldThe story draws on the documentatn of Gay and Lbian Memory Actn (Gala), thor Mark Gevisser, soclogist Zethu Matebeni and psychologist Hugo CanhamA moffie walks a bar...

We uld be gay, but we uldn’t have sex. I uld go and browse the “gay lerature” Estoril Books, a famo cisg space right near the Mi Ce that showed banned films like Rocky Horror Picture Show. But down the strip, past Highpot, you got to the Harrison Reef Hotel and went up the stairs to Skyle and was a parallel universe, where “normal” gay men uld hang out whout the display culture of the other jots on the Tseko Nkoli.

(Photo: Gay & Lbian Memory Actn)ICYMI: Cape Town reprents Ai for great gay travelMy honorary father’s name was Simon Nkoli.

JOHANNBURG GAY SNAS

(Photo: Gay & Lbian Memory Actn)Tshirt of activist Nkoli. (Photo: Gay & Lbian Memory Actn)Simon tght an ignorant whe boy about life the township, about tersectnaly and ristance: “In Sebokeng, the drag queens, the most visible of , learnt to h harst until people got too sred to harass them, ” he tght me that my sexualy was polil and that until we were all ee, none of was ee.

A pneer, Simon helped nvce the ANC to adopt the queer-iendly legislatn and Constutn many of enjoy OUT THIS MAP: World's least gay-iendly untri outedAfter Simon passed and the rner was named after him, pri stopped to pay tribute.

GAY SOUTH AI

The crowd is ually gay men mid 30s+. Unfortunately, the gay club scene Johannburg is always changg, and seems like most plac open jt as quickly if they close.

While Johannburg might be one of the most gay-iendly ci Ai beware that displays of affectn outsi of gay bars n still lead to trouble. Johannburg has a relatively small gay scene and bars & clubs are not all cltered one area of the cy. Even though Johannburg is an creasgly popular gay vatn statn, there is still only one gay sna\cise bar.