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• CORK: GAY AND LBIAN
• GAY LIFE MORN IRELAND--CORK CY
• IRELAND'S OLST GAY BAR LOAFERS SET TO GO UNR THE HAMMER
• NEW FUTURE FOR LEGENDARY CORK SPOT AS OLST GAY BAR IRELAND SELLS AFTER BIDDG WARTHE FIRST BIDR WON THE END AFTER RAISG THEIR OFFER BY 115KRKLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYEIMER MCAULEY11:54, 17 FEB 2022UPDATED13:58, 17 FEB 2022BOOKMARKTHE LOTN OF AN INIC GAY BAR IS SET FOR A NEW FUTUREGET OUR ULTIMATE GUI ON THGS TO DO CORK WH OUR CORK LOV EMAILMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET OUR ULTIMATE GUI ON THGS TO DO CORK WH OUR CORK LOV EMAILINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• CORK'S LEGENDARY GAY BAR LOAFERS UP FOR CTN
• GAY IRELAND TRAVEL GUI
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CORK
• CORK GAY BARS
• GAY IRELAND
• CORK GAY MAP
• CHAMBERS BARCORKMENUCORK · HOTELSGAY GUTHOE / B&BBARSCISE CLUBSGAY MAPIRELAND INXCHAMBERS BAR
• CORK GAY CISE CLUBS
• CORK: GAY AND LBIAN
• CORK SAYS GOODBYE TO LOAFERS AS IRELAND’S OLST GAY BAR CLOS

CORK: GAY AND LBIAN

Pubs and Clubs:Loafer's BarIreland's olst gay bar. Openg Hours:Mon - Tue: 19:30 - 23:30Wed - Thu: 17:00 - 23:30Fri - Sat: 17:00 - 00:30Sun: 17:00 - 23:00 Facebook26 Douglas St, Cork‎(021) 497 5529ChambersChambers is Cork's only late night Gay venue, wh DJ'S every Wednday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday - Doors Open 8.

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GAY LIFE MORN IRELAND--CORK CY

Gay Belfast. Gay Dubl.

IRELAND'S OLST GAY BAR LOAFERS SET TO GO UNR THE HAMMER

What are the popular party venu for gay guys Cork? I like to party wh my iends at the gay clubs.

Now I am really exced to move to a more acceptg untry but all my iends cludg a iend livg Dubl are tellg me "are you crazy, there is not gonna be any signifint gay populatn a cy so small, you're gonna be all alone, you know how we like to party there's not gonna be any of that there and sce the cy is not that ternatnal people will always treat you differently pecially when they hear you are om Eastern Europe'. Gay Ireland News & Reports 2000 to prent.

Gay Ireland Photo Galleri. We arrived Gay Ireland via Cork on a late afternoon enterg the cy along the Lee River led wh wareho, dockyards, and a power plant that give way to an olr cy downtown wh s morn opera hoe, Victorian office buildgs and untls zy pubs. Arrivg at Roman Hoe B&B there was ltle qutn that we were a gay B&B; wh red plaid rpetg and a hall poster of Joan Crawford, Roman Hoe B&B is a playful mix of ksch and fort.

NEW FUTURE FOR LEGENDARY CORK SPOT AS OLST GAY BAR IRELAND SELLS AFTER BIDDG WARTHE FIRST BIDR WON THE END AFTER RAISG THEIR OFFER BY 115KRKLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYEIMER MCAULEY11:54, 17 FEB 2022UPDATED13:58, 17 FEB 2022BOOKMARKTHE LOTN OF AN INIC GAY BAR IS SET FOR A NEW FUTUREGET OUR ULTIMATE GUI ON THGS TO DO CORK WH OUR CORK LOV EMAILMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET OUR ULTIMATE GUI ON THGS TO DO CORK WH OUR CORK LOV EMAILINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

After a chat wh Richard about plac to eat we strolled along trendy Pl Street wh s hearty rtrants and f (as well as an Inter shop) and ma our way to the gay Taboo bar for a drk and a chat.

CORK'S LEGENDARY GAY BAR LOAFERS UP FOR CTN

He easily slipped to nversatn and seemed eager to expla the easy life that lbigays have Cork. 000) and gay people tend to know each other more.

Also, Cork is mostly a workg class cy wh few pretensns and seemgly void of the “body fascism and fashn fascism” found among the gay urban trendy crowds of Dubl (somewhat) or London (fely).

GAY IRELAND TRAVEL GUI

He said he never had any doubts or fears of police or homophobic bulli.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CORK

“Colm seemed satisfied wh his prent circumstanc as a profsnal and as a gay man.

Rural Gay Farmers.

CORK GAY BARS

Not surprisgly, sce the were not ‘cy guys’, the talk was void of gay referenc at first. Hantly but neverthels cur, I asked about livg as gay people a ral environment. Gay ‘life’ is non-existent such Irish hamlets as theirs.

GAY IRELAND

But bee Ireland is such a small untry, is mon for ral gays to drive for a uple of hours and be a cy where there are iends, clubs, bars, diss or snas for lettg down their guard for a day or hancy sharg the few bs of Irish queer farm life discled me om further pursu.

Later, after Tom and Mark had fished breakfast and left, our host Richard mented that even unr the ver of a ‘big’ cy like Cork was unlikely that the ral guys ‘dulge’ the gay scene other than ge spectators havg a few beers and enjoyg the mic.

CORK GAY MAP

Gay Life Cork. Cork is big enough to support a reasonable number of gay venu, anizatns and many circl of iends.

In addn to gay events, the cy hosts events such as the annual jazz ftival, which brgs a lot of visors to Cork cludg many gay folks. Acrdg to him, the recent Day of Diversy (which ved the gay and lbian muny) was mostly aimed at racial mori pecially blacks who have arrived large numbers Ireland the past five years.

CHAMBERS BARCORKMENUCORK · HOTELSGAY GUTHOE / B&BBARSCISE CLUBSGAY MAPIRELAND INXCHAMBERS BAR

Richard is one of eight children, two of whom are gay: his brother Steve is gay and liv Dubl.

Richard offered that some mothers secretly like havg gay sons bee such offsprg often ntue to pay attentn to their mothers when straight siblgs are off and gone to attend to their wiv and children. Raised a Catholic fay he, like many other gay and lbian people, has pretty much dropped the church out of his life. For native gay sons and lbian dghters, Irish life has been mostly ee of discrimatn, harassment and vlence recent years.

Homophobic vlence is rare. Richard’s asssment of the Dubl gay scene was that had been sced by the ‘pk Euro’ to beg too mercial and overpriced. He said the pric for drks tomatilly are bumped up after midnight the gay bars and pubs like Gee.

CORK GAY CISE CLUBS

Lols maly support the gay venu so there is not this rip-off attu among the bar owners. When Richard did some renovatns on his B&B, he readily knew a gay rpenter, gay electrician and a gay kchen staller. So seems that gay life Cork is active but ntaed.

A visor to Cork soon fds out that one of the most succsful lbigay anizatns is Lc—Lbian Cork.

CORK: GAY AND LBIAN

One very tertg narrative pots out that, acrdg to one study on Irish gays and lbians 1995, almost 60% of rponnts had emigrated at some pot their liv and that sexual orientatn was a key factor their cisn. However, sce homosexualy was crimalized 1993 a dramatic shift has occurred.

As Irish laws and attus have changed signifintly the ensug , many Irish émigrés who had moved abroad now fd, ironilly, that Ireland offers more liberal laws regardg homosexualy. The other major Cork lbigay anizatn is Cork Gay Project.

CORK SAYS GOODBYE TO LOAFERS AS IRELAND’S OLST GAY BAR CLOS

It has a fé, bar, a bookshop, social meetgs as well as the cy’s office of the natnal Gay Men’s Health Project, which offers advice and support for STDs and HIV. Ireland's olst gay bar and one of Cork's most inic nightspots is set to go unr the hammer after fallg to a state of disrepair.

The once massively popular Loafers bar, which is thought to be the untry's olst gay bar, is due to be sold at ctn on Febary 17th. The bar ma s mark by operatg at a time when homosexualy was still illegal Ireland. Derek Gerry, says he opened the bs on Douglas Street to create a safe space for the gay muny Cork.

He said: 'It wasn't necsarily a gay bar, that wasn’t the plan, but a bar that was new but kept old style elements.