The Old Ship | London | Small but zy and charmg gay pub loted East End. The Old Ship is the perfect place meet your iends for some beers. Deratn is very ksch and funny, between a proper gay bar and a granny’s hoe, addg to the charm of the place. They also have live entertaments some nights, wh outstandg drag shows. And great staff workg here too. Not the place to go if you want to dance, but the perfect place if you want a zy gay bar to meet your iends.| Wele to the llaborative webse for gay people to share and disver top gay spots om around the world.
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GAYEASTLONDON: HOW GRDR IS G THE GAY SCENE
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Small but zy and charmg gay pub loted East End. Deratn is very ksch and funny, between a proper gay bar and a granny’s hoe, addg to the charm of the place.
Not the place to go if you want to dance, but the perfect place if you want a zy gay bar to meet your iends. Gay Bar. The Glory pris self beg one of east London’s bt gay bars, drag hotho, LGBTQ+ performance venu, nightclubs, and curators of London shows, ftivals, ntts and battl.
Comptons of Soho Photo:, Shutterstock Comprisg of two bars and a quieter lounge area, Soho’s Comptons pub has been a staple the cy’s gay scene sce 1986. Halfway To Heaven, Trafalgar Square Loted between Charg Cross Statn and Trafalgar Square, Halfway To Heaven is a tradnal gay pub and baret show bar wh a laid-back ground floor and club-like basement area. Kgs Arms, Soho Loted on Soho’s Poland Street and open sce the 1700’s, the iendly Kgs Arms was one of the first spots Soho to serve the gay muny, billg self as a ‘gentlemen’s bar’ the 1970’s.
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Officially a gay bar sce 1981, ’s now a firm favoure wh the LGBTQ+ muny – ‘bears’ particular – om London and around the world. From tablished legends of the gay scene to on that play baret and everythg between, there’s somethg for everyone here.
The number of lol gay bars and pubs east London is signifintly creasg. Follow the story this week to fd out why this is happeng and what means for the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny.
The most recent loss to the borough’s LGBTQ scene was The Joer’s Arms Shoredch, one of east London’s most-loved gay bars, which was closed January. The Hackney Road bar was turned to a gay venue 1997 by David Alexanr Pollard and was scribed as “Bra’s trendit gay dive”, equented by figur such as Alexanr McQueen, Christopher Kane and Patrick Wolf. The only remag gay pub Tower Hamlets is The Old Ship on Wakelg Street.
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“The gay scene as we know has ntracted to the centre more than anythg else, ” said Hanson. “There are a uple of reasons for this, firstly you had the smokg ban which didn’t jt affect gay bars, affected all bars.
But I thk when be a b more unique to the gay scene is when you’ve got the smartphone and apps like Grdr. For the gay scene, ’s a bad thg. It’s stroyg the gay scene when to bars and clubs.