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• WHY IS BRIGHTON THE LGBTQ CAPAL OF THE UK? BRIGHTON PRI IS A LANDMARK ANNUAL EVENT ATTRACTG ATTEN OM ACROSS THE PLA | © SIMON DACK / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO AMY HOLTZ 21 MAY 2021 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT BRIGHTON’S REPUTATN AS THE UK’S LGBTQ PAL HAS BEEN OVER 200 YEARS THE MAKG AND ’S A STAT MOST OF THE CY’S RINTS ARE FIERCELY PROUD OF. HERE’S A SHORT HISTORY OF HOW BRIGHTON ME TO BE SYNONYMO WH MMENT TO TOLERANCE AND DIVERSY FOR RINTS AND VISORS ALIKE. VIEW ALL TRIPS A SEASI ESPE FROM HUMBLE BEGNGS AS A NEOLHIC ENMPMENT, BRIGHTON’S TRANSFORMATN OM FISHG VILLAGE TO STYLISH SEASI RORT IS PERHAPS BT SYMBOLISED BY THE UNIQUE ROYAL PAVILN, WHICH SS AT THE HEART OF THE CY. UNR NSTCTN DURG THE NAPOLEONIC WARS (1803-1815), ’S UNRSTOOD THAT THE FLUX OF SOLDIERS TO BRIGHTON DURG THE YEARS CIS WH THE FIRST RERD LGBTQ (LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER) HISTORY THE MUNY. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP THAILAND CROATIA EGYPT ECUADOR GREECE ICELAND BALI INDIA MEXI MOROC TURKEY SPA JAPAN SOUTH AI THROUGHOUT THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURI, S PROXIMY TO THE PAL AND THE EXPANSN OF EASY, REGULAR TRANSPORT TO THE SEASI SAW BRIGHTON BEE A CLANSTE STATN FOR THOSE RETREATG OM LONDON. IN THE 1930S, GAY AND LBIAN BARS AND PUBS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE CY – AND AFTER WORLD WAR II, WHISPERS OF BRIGHTON’S UNIQUE DIVERSNS SPREAD TO OTHERS LOOKG FOR A SAFE SPACE TO EXPLORE THEIR SEXUALY. KEMPTOWN IS THE BEATG HEART OF BRIGHTON’S VIBRANT LGBTQ SCENE TODAY, ’S THOUGHT THAT 11-15% OF ALL ADULTS BRIGHTON INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL. IT’S EASY TO SEE THE FLUENCE OF THE LGBTQ MUNY NEARLY EVERY STREET, PARTICULARLY KEMP TOWN. HERE, LONG-TABLISHED PUBS LIKE THE BULLDOG, THE CAMELFORD ARMS AND THE MARLBOROUGH TER TO DIFFERENT SEGMENTS OF THE LGBT POPULATN, CLUDG THOSE WHO INTIFY AS NON-BARY. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP BUT ’S MORE THAN JT BEAR PUBS AND DRAG KGS DRIVG THE CY’S LGBTQ SCENE; THERE IS AN ABUNDANCE OF VAL SERVIC SUCH AS THE ALLSORTS YOUTH PROJECT, THE BRIGHTON & HOVE LGBT SWCHBOARD AND THE SSEX BEAN OFFERG SUPPORT AND DRIVG TN AND ACCEPTANCE THROUGHOUT THE MUNY. THE PEOPLE’S PRI THE TE SPIR OF BRIGHTON’S LGBTQ MUNY TO THE FORE EACH YEAR EARLY AUGT DURG BRIGHTON PRI, THE UK’S LARGT – AND ARGUABLY, MOST SPARKLY – PRI FTIVAL. DRAWG REVELLERS OM AROUND THE UNTRY, THE FTIVAL WEL HUNDREDS OF THOANDS TO THE CY WH A SIMPLE MSAGE: “WE ARE FAY”. THE WEEKEND-LONG PARTY KICKS OFF WH A VIBRANT, BAWDY PARA THAT WDS THROUGH THE VAR CY ‘VILLAG’, CULMATG A PARTY KEMP TOWN, WH LIVE MIC AND BARET PRTON PARK AND EVEN A DOG SHOW. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. A PARA PARTICIPANT FLI THE RABOW FLAG AT BRIGHTON PRI 2018 | © NIGEL BOWL / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO THE FABRIC OF BRIGHTON IS WOVEN WH CLIVY, EQUALY AND TOLERANCE – CREATG A STRONG SENSE OF MUNY. IT’S PART OF WHAT MAK THE CY SO SPECIAL AND OPEN TO ALL. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• THE 10 BEST BRIGHTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BRIGHTON
• BACHELOR ALUM CASSIE RANDOLPH PARTI WH NEW ‘BOYIEND’ BRIGHTON REHARDT AFTER COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• THE BOILER ROOM SNAFRIENDLY GAY SNA HOVE.BRIGHTONMENUHOTELSGUTHOON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSLBIAN BARSCISE CLUBSSNASMASSAGEGAY BEACHGYMSRTRANTSSHOPSSERVICCY GUIGAY MAPGAY WEDDGSTHE BOILER ROOM SNA
• GAY SNA EXPERIENC
• BRIGHTON GAY BEACH
• INTER BACKS WOMAN WHO DEFEND PARENTS DISOWNG GAY OLR BROTHER
• GAY UNED KGDOM
• THE 10 BEST BRIGHTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BRIGHTON

WHY IS BRIGHTON THE LGBTQ CAPAL OF THE UK? BRIGHTON PRI IS A LANDMARK ANNUAL EVENT ATTRACTG ATTEN OM ACROSS THE PLA | © SIMON DACK / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO AMY HOLTZ 21 MAY 2021 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT BRIGHTON’S REPUTATN AS THE UK’S LGBTQ PAL HAS BEEN OVER 200 YEARS THE MAKG AND ’S A STAT MOST OF THE CY’S RINTS ARE FIERCELY PROUD OF. HERE’S A SHORT HISTORY OF HOW BRIGHTON ME TO BE SYNONYMO WH MMENT TO TOLERANCE AND DIVERSY FOR RINTS AND VISORS ALIKE. VIEW ALL TRIPS A SEASI ESPE FROM HUMBLE BEGNGS AS A NEOLHIC ENMPMENT, BRIGHTON’S TRANSFORMATN OM FISHG VILLAGE TO STYLISH SEASI RORT IS PERHAPS BT SYMBOLISED BY THE UNIQUE ROYAL PAVILN, WHICH SS AT THE HEART OF THE CY. UNR NSTCTN DURG THE NAPOLEONIC WARS (1803-1815), ’S UNRSTOOD THAT THE FLUX OF SOLDIERS TO BRIGHTON DURG THE YEARS CIS WH THE FIRST RERD LGBTQ (LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER) HISTORY THE MUNY. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP THAILAND CROATIA EGYPT ECUADOR GREECE ICELAND BALI INDIA MEXI MOROC TURKEY SPA JAPAN SOUTH AI THROUGHOUT THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURI, S PROXIMY TO THE PAL AND THE EXPANSN OF EASY, REGULAR TRANSPORT TO THE SEASI SAW BRIGHTON BEE A CLANSTE STATN FOR THOSE RETREATG OM LONDON. IN THE 1930S, GAY AND LBIAN BARS AND PUBS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE CY – AND AFTER WORLD WAR II, WHISPERS OF BRIGHTON’S UNIQUE DIVERSNS SPREAD TO OTHERS LOOKG FOR A SAFE SPACE TO EXPLORE THEIR SEXUALY. KEMPTOWN IS THE BEATG HEART OF BRIGHTON’S VIBRANT LGBTQ SCENE TODAY, ’S THOUGHT THAT 11-15% OF ALL ADULTS BRIGHTON INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL. IT’S EASY TO SEE THE FLUENCE OF THE LGBTQ MUNY NEARLY EVERY STREET, PARTICULARLY KEMP TOWN. HERE, LONG-TABLISHED PUBS LIKE THE BULLDOG, THE CAMELFORD ARMS AND THE MARLBOROUGH TER TO DIFFERENT SEGMENTS OF THE LGBT POPULATN, CLUDG THOSE WHO INTIFY AS NON-BARY. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP BUT ’S MORE THAN JT BEAR PUBS AND DRAG KGS DRIVG THE CY’S LGBTQ SCENE; THERE IS AN ABUNDANCE OF VAL SERVIC SUCH AS THE ALLSORTS YOUTH PROJECT, THE BRIGHTON & HOVE LGBT SWCHBOARD AND THE SSEX BEAN OFFERG SUPPORT AND DRIVG TN AND ACCEPTANCE THROUGHOUT THE MUNY. THE PEOPLE’S PRI THE TE SPIR OF BRIGHTON’S LGBTQ MUNY TO THE FORE EACH YEAR EARLY AUGT DURG BRIGHTON PRI, THE UK’S LARGT – AND ARGUABLY, MOST SPARKLY – PRI FTIVAL. DRAWG REVELLERS OM AROUND THE UNTRY, THE FTIVAL WEL HUNDREDS OF THOANDS TO THE CY WH A SIMPLE MSAGE: “WE ARE FAY”. THE WEEKEND-LONG PARTY KICKS OFF WH A VIBRANT, BAWDY PARA THAT WDS THROUGH THE VAR CY ‘VILLAG’, CULMATG A PARTY KEMP TOWN, WH LIVE MIC AND BARET PRTON PARK AND EVEN A DOG SHOW. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. A PARA PARTICIPANT FLI THE RABOW FLAG AT BRIGHTON PRI 2018 | © NIGEL BOWL / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO THE FABRIC OF BRIGHTON IS WOVEN WH CLIVY, EQUALY AND TOLERANCE – CREATG A STRONG SENSE OF MUNY. IT’S PART OF WHAT MAK THE CY SO SPECIAL AND OPEN TO ALL. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

Racism/Homophobia/Transphobia/Sexism. I live Lhuania and 's a very racist and homophobic untry and known for terrible thgs.

THE 10 BEST BRIGHTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BRIGHTON

We're not lookg for rabow flags and gay bars, but we do want to know if would be safe and not outwardly hostile. Unr nstctn durg the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), ’s unrstood that the flux of soldiers to Brighton durg the years cis wh the first rerd LGBTQ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer) history the muny. In the 1930s, gay and lbian bars and pubs spread throughout the cy – and after World War II, whispers of Brighton’s unique diversns spread to others lookg for a safe space to explore their sexualy.

Today, ’s thought that 11-15% of all adults Brighton intify as gay, lbian or bisexual. It's one of Europe's bt-known "gay ci", and has been long-tablished as a UK hub for LGBTQ muny. It's even been argued as beg the gay pal of Europe!

Talk about beg the "gay pal" of Europe! And one last fun fact: Brighton's first ever gay bar, The Bulldog, opened back 1979: and until s unfortunate closure, was the "go-to" place for Brighton-based LGBTQ folks.

BACHELOR ALUM CASSIE RANDOLPH PARTI WH NEW ‘BOYIEND’ BRIGHTON REHARDT AFTER COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

So check out our top picks for the bt gay bars Brighton n offer for the LGBTQ+ muny below. Are we kickg off our top gay bars Brighton list wh our very own venue? So next time you're ol Kemptown (Brighton's gay village), e check out!

Bar Revenge, AKA Club Revenge, is found round the rner om Charl Street and is one of the bt gay clubs Brighton has the cy. Ironwork Studs is jt a 10 mute walk om the Royal Paviln and is tly one of the bt gay venu Brighton. If you're faiar wh Brighton's gay scene, you'll know about Charl Street Tap.

Self scribed as "The Queen of Craft", Charl Street Tap has been a staple Brighton gay village for 20 years now!

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Although The Camelford Arms wel a mixed crowd of over thirti, 's one of the classic Brighton gay bars. Brighton's Kemptown (the ma gay village) has a plethora of LGBT-muny-iendly bars, and The Camelford Arms is one of them.

Centre Stage Gay Bars.

Although 's predomantly aimed at gay men, all other guys, gals and non-bary pals are more than wele at this seaont bar!

THE BOILER ROOM SNAFRIENDLY GAY SNA HOVE.BRIGHTONMENUHOTELSGUTHOON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSLBIAN BARSCISE CLUBSSNASMASSAGEGAY BEACHGYMSRTRANTSSHOPSSERVICCY GUIGAY MAPGAY WEDDGSTHE BOILER ROOM SNA

The Amsterdam was a staple Brighton's seaont gay bars, so we're sure that Centre Stage is no different! The venue is suated unr the famo Marlborough Hotel, which Brightonians scribe as one of the iendlit "gay hotels".

And if you're part of a gay uple lookg for LGBT iendly tablishments to stay , h up The Marlborough! The Mare Tavern one of Brighton's ty but mighty gay pubs that ss on Broad Street Kemptown (the gay-iendly neighbourhood Brighton).

Fun fact: 's actually the smallt gay pub Brighton! ), and opened June 2022, so s a ltle gaybie on the Brighton gay scene. The Prtonville Arms is a welg LGBT pub that has been newly acquired by a lovely gay uple.

GAY SNA EXPERIENC

Although is a gay-iendly space, 's welg to absolutely every walk of life.

And like pretty much every gay bar Brighton, the vib are immaculate.

BRIGHTON GAY BEACH

And if you're talkg about gay Brighton, you'd be silly not to shout out The Grosvenor. It's been a go-to Brighton's gay scene for a while and is greatly valued by the lol muny. Doctor Brighton's is a seaont pub and is a Brighton stutn due to beg one of the longt-nng gay bars the area.

The fun day after Cassie's ex Colton Unrwood me out as gay.

10The spottg shortly after her ex Colton me out as gayCred: Good Morng Ameri. The possible date after Cassie's ex Colton, 29, me out as gay durg an terview wh Rob Roberts on Good Morng Ameri. Back April, Colton revealed to Rob that he is gay by sharg: "I ran om myself for a long time and hated myself for a long time and I'm gay.

INTER BACKS WOMAN WHO DEFEND PARENTS DISOWNG GAY OLR BROTHER

10Colton me out as gay last monthCred: Good Morng Ameri. Meanwhile, sourc claimed Cassie learned that Colton is gay at the same time as everyone else when the terview aired. An sir told People: "Cassie found out Colton is gay the same time that everyone else did.

10Cassie allegedly learned that Colton is gay through the terviewCred: Refer to Captn. Gorshkov—a former profsor at Perm State Universy the Urals—ced both Tmp’s electn and exasperatn wh the rampant homophobia Rsian-speakg enclav Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach, and Kgs Highway. Dpe g to the Uned Stat July 2014 an effort to flee anti-gay persecutn, he and other LGBTQ Rsian-speakg rints say verbal and physil abe ntue to be very real problems here Brooklyn.

GAY UNED KGDOM

“I got angry, thkg, we had managed to pe om homophobia our untri, and we were still unsafe those Rsian-speakg areas NYC, ” Gorshkov said. In addn to targetg Put, the Brighton Beach march lled attentn to the ongog, ernment-sponsored extermatn of the gay muny Chechnya, Rsia’s tumultuo semi-tonomo southern republic.

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

THE 10 BEST BRIGHTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BRIGHTON

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. Friendly gay sna wh an timate atmosphere. Gay Sna Experienc | Hip Foms.