The first gay pub I dared set foot now has a rabow plaque. Here’s why that matters | Gary Nunn | The Guardian

Contents:

• GAY BARS AND PUBS LEEDS
• THE BEST LEEDS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LEEDS
• TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS LEEDS CY CENTREGAY CLUBS & BARS LEEDS CY CENTRE
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• GAY LEEDS
• LEEDS GAY MAP
• GAY YORKSHIRE
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• THE 10 BEST MANCHTER GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MANCHTER

GAY BARS AND PUBS LEEDS

We also have a pact gay village centred around Lower Briggate, wh all of the venu jt a stone's throw away om each other. Whether you’re gay, straight or jt uncid you n be assured that there is somethg here for you. Boastg some of the iendlit bars the cy, the Leeds gay scene has some sassy surpris hidn up ’s sleev.

THE BEST LEEDS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LEEDS

Queens Court, the biggt gay club Leeds, has DJs and themed nights throughout the week across two floors. The New Penny is one of the UK’s longt nng LGBTQ+ venu, and Leeds olst gay bar, and is still gog strong. HER Events lnch s first event for gay women Leeds at Belgrave Mic Hall.

On the First Direct Bank Stage the le up clus: Gok Wan, Drag Race UK’s Danny Beard, Aston Merrygold, Stars, Homoparody, Soraya Vivian, HoneyHoneyz, Lady Bhra, Fibre Queens and last but not least Marigold Addams.

TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS LEEDS CY CENTREGAY CLUBS & BARS LEEDS CY CENTRE

A new pub has opened Leeds this week - and 's on the se of a former beloved gay venue. "We want to be a morn LGBT bar that's offerg somethg a b different, and brg people who are new to the gay scene but also give somethg new and h to people who are already here. The New Penny is the olst gay bar Leeds and has been at the heart of LGBTQ+ life the cy sce opened 1953 as The Hope & Anchor.

It is reported to be the olst gay pub the Leeds. Although difficulty wh the law meant was a secretive place and was the first gay venue to open outsi of London. It is thought that is the longt ntually nng gay venue the UK.

It is still one of the most popular venu Leeds attractg both a mixed gay crowd and straights.

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

The New Penny boasts a “alternative” night on the Leeds gay scene, Vlator Dis, n by Richard and Rty, churng out some of the bt die, rock, electro and alternative mic om the past and the prent. Miss Anna Glypta was the crowng jewel their weekend attractns before movg to The Viaduct early 2007 as part of Terry Gee’s nversn of The Viaduct om a Leeds Uned pub to a fully-fledged gay pub.

On s menu is an elaborate selectn of spirs om Grey Goose vodka to Tanqueray g and Mount Gay m to Jack Daniel’s Sgle Barrel bourbon. It is reported to be the olst gay pub Leeds, when first opened as the Hope And Anchor 1953.

GAY LEEDS

Those that rema are often important muny spac imbued wh shared New Penny on Call Lane Leeds claims to be the olst ntuoly operatg gay pub the UK, and certaly is one of the olst outsi of London. From the 1970s Earl’s Court had been the central foc of many gay men’s urban socializg the cy. The Coleherne pub at 261 Earls Court Road was popular wh gay men throughout the post-war perd.

Durg the 1970s and 1980s, gay pubs and venu found ways of operatg around licensg laws that required they serve food.

LEEDS GAY MAP

I believe this was que mon for gay venu which often found hard to get licensed.

Wh creasg tert the ‘pk pound’, gay pubs and clubs proliferated London and other ci and towns across the untry. VisibilyBy the 1990s gay venu across the untry started to transform. The Yard, on Rupert Street (London) was rare havg an outdoor space visible om the Admiral DunnThe danger associated wh visg gay bars had not disappeared by the end of the 20th century.

GAY YORKSHIRE

The Admiral Dunn at 54 Old Compton Street, Soho London has been tradg sce the 19th century and been a gay venue for s. Club Kali, a large and succsful mixed club for lbians and gay men sce the 1990s, operat at The Dome Tufnell Park, north London and tours to other venu.

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

It was the first place where I felt totally fortable and didn't feel the need to jtify intifyg as Gay, Mlim, Brish and Asian.

The listg scriptn explas that ‘has bee an endurg symbol of the nfince of the gay muny London’.

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 10 BEST MANCHTER GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MANCHTER

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.