On the trail of Cambridge's rich and radil queer past | Gay and lbian travel | The Guardian

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• THE BEST CAMBRIDGE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CAMBRIDGE
• 14 QUEER PUBS CAMBRIDGE HAS LOVED AND LOSTCAMBRIDGE'S GAY BAR SCENE ISN'T WHAT ED TO BE - HERE ARE SOME OF THE INIC PUBS AND BARS WHICH NO LONGER EXISTMBRIDGENEWSBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYDEBBIE LUXONCOMMUNY REPORTER18:48, 2 MAR 2020UPDATED15:50, 10 MAR 2020BOOKMARKTHE ANCHOR ON SILVER STREET ONCE HELD MIXED DISS. IN THIS PICTURE S A SEA OF FLAIRS AND HAIRCUTS, DATG BACK TO CIR 1985 THE ANCHOR BASEMENT (IMAGE: CAMBRIDGHIRE ARCHIV: CAMBRIDGE GAY GROUP LLECTN)SIGN UP TO OUR EE EMAIL NEWSLETTER TO RECEIVE THE LATT BREAKG NEWS AND DAILY ROUNDUPS MORE 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 SIGN UP TO OUR EE EMAIL NEWSLETTER TO RECEIVE THE LATT BREAKG NEWS AND DAILY ROUNDUPS INVALID 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!
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• CAMBRIDGE GAY AND LBIAN SCENE

THE BEST CAMBRIDGE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CAMBRIDGE

Over the years Cambridge has loved and lost many gay bars and clubs. The cy still holds several monthly gay nights cludg Glterbomb at Vyl and the long-standg Dot Cotton night, now held at Fez.

The Turks Head was a hub of gay nights Cambridge.

14 QUEER PUBS CAMBRIDGE HAS LOVED AND LOSTCAMBRIDGE'S GAY BAR SCENE ISN'T WHAT ED TO BE - HERE ARE SOME OF THE INIC PUBS AND BARS WHICH NO LONGER EXISTMBRIDGENEWSBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYDEBBIE LUXONCOMMUNY REPORTER18:48, 2 MAR 2020UPDATED15:50, 10 MAR 2020BOOKMARKTHE ANCHOR ON SILVER STREET ONCE HELD MIXED DISS. IN THIS PICTURE S A SEA OF FLAIRS AND HAIRCUTS, DATG BACK TO CIR 1985 THE ANCHOR BASEMENT (IMAGE: CAMBRIDGHIRE ARCHIV: CAMBRIDGE GAY GROUP LLECTN)SIGN UP TO OUR EE EMAIL NEWSLETTER TO RECEIVE THE LATT BREAKG NEWS AND DAILY ROUNDUPS MORE 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 SIGN UP TO OUR EE EMAIL NEWSLETTER TO RECEIVE THE LATT BREAKG NEWS AND DAILY ROUNDUPS INVALID 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!

You would have to go through the si entrance on Green Street (now a Jigsaw store) to accs the gay bar. Rumours about the venue said that one owner had paid a gay man to intify any gay people the bar so they uld then swiftly be kicked out. However this venture was unsuccsful, so the gay scene filled the venue stead throughout the early '90s.

However, she also said that spe this the majory of the gay scene of Cambridge would turn up at the Burleigh for a "gay bop" until a brick got thrown through the wdow of the pub.

” Janie Buchanan said all the gay pubs of the 90's era were "div" but Sisters Act would go to show support for the only pub owned by a lbian landlady.

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Throughout the noughti, changed hands several tim and the fal gay owner Seve Freathy gave up 2009 after a vic asslt which some spect was homophobic.

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" The venu we have left While all the exclively gay venu Cambridge are now gone, the LGBTQ+ scene is far om fotten. Aislg, the novel’s gay, Sttish, workg-class heroe, follows her girliend to the universy cy. Lookg around, I saw no visible signs of queer life: no gay bars or f, and only one monthly club night.

Over the years, was home to a plethora of gay l legends, om EM Forster and Edward Carpenter to Patricia Duncker and Stephen Fry. Not only has fed the homosexual imagatns of a host of thors, but s spac and streets have been central to queer polil anisg.

A Great Rerd History nnects listeners to queer histori, spac, and Anchor pub was once home to the bt gay club Cambridge. But on the other, there were the polil groups that were startg up, like the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly. On Saturdays they all put on their bt bell-bottoms and head to the Anchor, home to the bt gay club the Forster is the first person most people thk of when they thk of queer Cambridge.

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Forster is now nsired somethg of a gay granddaddy, but he didn’t publish any explicly homoerotic work his lifetime.

When his novel Mrice me out after his ath 1971, was celebrated far and wi by rears embolned by gay liberatn.