Canterbury gay bar says police tryg to 'ccify' them

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• GAY BAR.??? - LIM
• CY’S ONLY GAY BAR SAYS POLICE ARE TRYG TO ‘CCIFY’ THEM AFTER DGS AND SWORD VLENCE REPORTS
• LGBT HISTORY MONTH: GAY BARS ARE REFUG FOR ALL SAYS CANTERBURY'S LIM LOUNGE AND THA'S THE SUNDOWNERS SOPHIE BIRD PUBLISHED: 06:00, 08 FEBARY 2020  | UPDATED: 15:38, 08 FEBARY 2020   | | | --> THE OWNER OF A GAY BAR HAS SAID WE SHOULDN'T NEED TO HAVE THEM THE 21ST CENTURY, BUT THEY HAVE BEE A BEAN OF ACCEPTANCE TO MANY RECENT YEARSPARENTS OF LGBT+ CHILDREN KENT ARE NOW G THEM FOR ADVICE. DPE THE CHANGG TIM, THE BARS REMA A REFUGE FOR ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE WHO MAY BE IGHTENED TO REVEAL THEIR SEXUALY A NVENTNAL SETTG, OR DON'T WANT TO GO TO A PUB WHICH ULD BE FULL OF ROWDY REVELLERS.VISORS ALL DRSED UP AT THE SUNDOWNERS OWNERS OF GAY BARS HAVE BEEN AT THE FOREONT OF THEIR MUNY MOVG OUT OM BASEMENTS AND NOW THEY ARE SENTIALLY THE SAME AS ANY OTHER PUB. DUNN BAYL, 59, WHO NS THE SUNDOWNERS THA, SAID: "BARS ARE A LOT MORE THE OPEN NOW. IN THE PAST, BARS WERE HELD UNRGROUND. YOU HAD TO PH BUZZERS OR KNOW SOMEBODY TO BE ABLE TO GET TO THEM."NOW WE'RE QUE HAPPY TO ADVERTISE WE ARE A GAY BAR, WHICH IS A BIG STEP FORWARD. WE WILL FLY OUR FLAGS SO PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF WHAT WE ARE."ANTHONY BUTCHER, WHO NS LIM LOUNGE CANTERBURY, SAYS A BIG CHANGE HE HAS NOTICED IS HOW EQUENTLY PARENTS E TO HIS BAR LOOKG FOR ADVICE ON HOW TO REACT TO THEIR LGBT+ CHILD G OUT.THE 57-YEAR-OLD SAYS THIS HAS BEE LIKE A EE SERVICE THE BAR PROVIS, WH FAI OFTEN VISG MONTHS LATER TO THANK THEM.TONY BUTCHER, LIM LOUNGE: "SCE I'VE BEEN ME TO KENT, I'VE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER. I LOVE DOWN HERE NOW, 'S PART OF MY LIFE, 'S WHERE I SHOULD BE AND PROBABLY DIE DOWN HERE."HE ADD: "WHEN WE FIRST GOT HERE, WE HAD A GENTLEMAN WHOSE SON WANTED TO BE A WOMAN. HE ME DOWN HERE AND HE WAS TEARS WH HIS WIFE. HE WAS ASKG MY ADVICE AND I JT SAID TO HIM YOU'VE GOT TO GO WH THE FLOW AND SEE HOW GO. "NOW, THE LAD - WHO IS NOW A LADY - IS VERY HAPPY AND THE PARENTS HAVE ACCEPTED AND THEY POP EVERY NOW AND AGA.”ANTHONY SAYS BARS LIKE HIS ARE A REFUGE TO ALL, CLUDG CELEBRI, VIRS, POLICE, ARMED FORC, URT WORKERS AND ERNMENT WORKERS, WHO ARE AAID TO E OUT BUT KNOW THEIR SECRET WILL BE SAFE WH BAR STAFF.DUNN BELIEV AN IAL WORLD WE SHOULDN'T NEED GAYS BARS. HE ADD: "IF A MAN WANTS TO HOLD HANDS WH A MAN OR WOMEN WANT TO HOLD HANDS, THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO ANYWHERE. WE'RE THE 21ST CENTURY, NOT THE 1800S."EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT LGBT+ ENJOY THE SAFETY OF A GAY BAR AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO ROUGHER BARS. ANTHONY SAYS STRAIGHT WOMEN OFTEN VIS HIS BAR AS A WAY OF AVOIDG MEN HTG ON THEM AND TO BE A PLACE WHERE THEY FEEL RPECTED.THE SUNDOWNERS OFTEN HOLD DRAG IDOL PETNS, HAVE DRS UP EVENGS AND QUIZ NIGHTSDISABLED AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE WILL ALSO VIS THE BARS BEE OF THEIR REPUTATN FOR BEG ACCEPTG TO ALL. ANTHONY ADD: "IT'S NOT JT A TO MAKE MONEY. IT'S A REFUGE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE A B IGHTENED, SOME OF G OUT AND SOME OF THEM ARE OLR PEOPLE WHO ONLY E OUT LATER LIFE."THE BAR OWNERS ALSO SAY SOME OF THEIR CTOMERS E TO THE BARS FOR THE UNIQUE ENTERTAMENT, SUCH AS DRAG ACTS, FANCY DRS NIGHTS, MICIANS AND A RANGE OF GS - A VARIETY WHICH THEY SAY MOST PUBS NOW LACK. LOOKG BACK FOR LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH, GAY BARS HAVE SEEN A WARMER WELE THE GENERAL MUNY THE PAST FEW S. BUT NOW MANY ARE CLOSG DOWN ACROSS THE UNTY. DUNN REMEMBERS THREE WHICH WERE ONCE OPEN THA AND CANTERBURY HAS SEEN FOUR OTHERS CLOSE DOWN. LIME’S LOUNGE AND THE SUNDOWNERS ARE NOW THE ONLY GAY BARS THOSE AREAS.VISORS ENJOYG A DRK AT THE LIM BARTHE SUNDOWNERS OWNER HAS A THEORY AS TO WHY MORE BARS ARE CLOSG DOWN.HE SAID: "THE ST OF RENTS AND BS TAX RAT HAVE CLOSED A LOT OF THEM DOWN. BUT ALSO PEOPLE E SOCIAL MEDIA TO MEET MORE AND I THK THAT HAS A BIG BEARG."WHEREAS, GOG BACK, THERE WAS NO SOCIAL MEDIA, THERE WERE NO DATG APPS. SO PEOPLE ED TO HAVE TO GO TO A GAY BAR TO MEET ANOTHER GAY PERSON."THE 59-YEAR-OLD BELIEV THIS HAS IMPACTED THE STRAIGHT DATG WORLD AS WELL, BUT HS GAY BARS MUCH MORE BEE OF HOW SENTIAL THEY WERE FOR LGBT+ PEOPLE TO FD OTHERS LIKE THEMSELV.HOWEVER, NEHER OF THE OWNERS BELIEVE GAR BARS ARE GOG TO DIE OUT AS THEY STILL OFFER A SPACE PEOPLE NEED.TONY BUTCHER, OWNER OF LIM LOUNGE: “ANYONE WHO LIK THE GAY MUNY IS WELE.”ANTHONY AND DUNN HAVE BOTH NOTICED A RECENT RISE HOSTILY TOWARDS LGBT+ PEOPLE AND SAY HAS HAD A PART TO PLAY THE CLOSG OF SOME OF THE BARS.DUNN SAID: "I THK THERE IS FELY MORE ACCEPTANCE, BUT THE WORRYG TREND IS AT THE MOMENT WE HAVE AN CREASE HOMOPHOBIC ASSLTS THE UNTRY. IT'S FELY GONE BACKWARDS, I WOULD SAY, THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS."ACRDG TO THE LATT CROWN PROSECUTN SERVICE FIGUR, HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC HATE CRIM ALT WH BY PROSECUTORS KENT CREASED OM 38 2017/18 TO 62 2018/19.HATE CRIM TOWARDS LGBT+ PEOPLE HAS QUADPLED KENT SCE 2013/14, WHEN JT 14 S WERE ALT WH BY PROSECUTORS, 12 S RULTED NVICTNS AND TWO S DID NOT.THE RISE THE NUMBERS OF S MAY BE BEE PEOPLE HAVE MORE NFINCE REPORTG HATE CRIME, HOWEVER, THE LGBT+ CHARY STONEWALL, SUGGTS THE RISE HAS CID WH RISG BAT AROUND LGBT+ CLIVE TN AND TRANSGENR EQUALY.ANTHONY IS ADAMANT HE IS AN DTRY WHICH WOULD GO ON FOREVER. HE IS HOPEFUL FOR THE FUTURE, AS GAY BARS EVOLVE WH THE CHANGG TIM.HE SAID: “THE GAY MUNY IS NOT GOG BACK, THEY’RE GOG FORWARD BEE WE’RE GETTG BRAVER."I'VE WORKED HARD THIS DTRY FOR A VERY LONG TIME, 'S NICE TO KNOW THE BARRIERS ARE BREAKG DOWN AND PEOPLE ARE ENJOYG THEMSELV. ANYONE WHO LIK THE GAY MUNY IS WELE”READ MORE: ALL THE LATT NEWS OM KENT FOR MORE REAL LIFE STORI, CLICK HERE. --> CANTERBURY HUMAN INTERT KENT THA SOPHIE BIRD _PLUGMANAGER.SETTARGETVALUE("ARTICLEID", "221579"); FOLLOW MOST POPULAR
• GAY CANTERBURY
• GAY NIGHTLIFE CANTERBURY
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS CANTERBURY

GAY BAR.??? - LIM

THIS IS NOT A GAY BAR JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A RAINBOW FLAG DOES NOT MAKE YOU A GAY BAR. It’s a shame Canterbury has no real Gay n do wh given the place a good clean, om a dirty floor to dirty tabl and to dirty glass how is this place opened?

CY’S ONLY GAY BAR SAYS POLICE ARE TRYG TO ‘CCIFY’ THEM AFTER DGS AND SWORD VLENCE REPORTS

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LGBT HISTORY MONTH: GAY BARS ARE REFUG FOR ALL SAYS CANTERBURY'S LIM LOUNGE AND THA'S THE SUNDOWNERS SOPHIE BIRD PUBLISHED: 06:00, 08 FEBARY 2020  | UPDATED: 15:38, 08 FEBARY 2020   | | | --> THE OWNER OF A GAY BAR HAS SAID WE SHOULDN'T NEED TO HAVE THEM THE 21ST CENTURY, BUT THEY HAVE BEE A BEAN OF ACCEPTANCE TO MANY RECENT YEARSPARENTS OF LGBT+ CHILDREN KENT ARE NOW G THEM FOR ADVICE. DPE THE CHANGG TIM, THE BARS REMA A REFUGE FOR ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE WHO MAY BE IGHTENED TO REVEAL THEIR SEXUALY A NVENTNAL SETTG, OR DON'T WANT TO GO TO A PUB WHICH ULD BE FULL OF ROWDY REVELLERS.VISORS ALL DRSED UP AT THE SUNDOWNERS OWNERS OF GAY BARS HAVE BEEN AT THE FOREONT OF THEIR MUNY MOVG OUT OM BASEMENTS AND NOW THEY ARE SENTIALLY THE SAME AS ANY OTHER PUB. DUNN BAYL, 59, WHO NS THE SUNDOWNERS THA, SAID: "BARS ARE A LOT MORE THE OPEN NOW. IN THE PAST, BARS WERE HELD UNRGROUND. YOU HAD TO PH BUZZERS OR KNOW SOMEBODY TO BE ABLE TO GET TO THEM."NOW WE'RE QUE HAPPY TO ADVERTISE WE ARE A GAY BAR, WHICH IS A BIG STEP FORWARD. WE WILL FLY OUR FLAGS SO PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF WHAT WE ARE."ANTHONY BUTCHER, WHO NS LIM LOUNGE CANTERBURY, SAYS A BIG CHANGE HE HAS NOTICED IS HOW EQUENTLY PARENTS E TO HIS BAR LOOKG FOR ADVICE ON HOW TO REACT TO THEIR LGBT+ CHILD G OUT.THE 57-YEAR-OLD SAYS THIS HAS BEE LIKE A EE SERVICE THE BAR PROVIS, WH FAI OFTEN VISG MONTHS LATER TO THANK THEM.TONY BUTCHER, LIM LOUNGE: "SCE I'VE BEEN ME TO KENT, I'VE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER. I LOVE DOWN HERE NOW, 'S PART OF MY LIFE, 'S WHERE I SHOULD BE AND PROBABLY DIE DOWN HERE."HE ADD: "WHEN WE FIRST GOT HERE, WE HAD A GENTLEMAN WHOSE SON WANTED TO BE A WOMAN. HE ME DOWN HERE AND HE WAS TEARS WH HIS WIFE. HE WAS ASKG MY ADVICE AND I JT SAID TO HIM YOU'VE GOT TO GO WH THE FLOW AND SEE HOW GO. "NOW, THE LAD - WHO IS NOW A LADY - IS VERY HAPPY AND THE PARENTS HAVE ACCEPTED AND THEY POP EVERY NOW AND AGA.”ANTHONY SAYS BARS LIKE HIS ARE A REFUGE TO ALL, CLUDG CELEBRI, VIRS, POLICE, ARMED FORC, URT WORKERS AND ERNMENT WORKERS, WHO ARE AAID TO E OUT BUT KNOW THEIR SECRET WILL BE SAFE WH BAR STAFF.DUNN BELIEV AN IAL WORLD WE SHOULDN'T NEED GAYS BARS. HE ADD: "IF A MAN WANTS TO HOLD HANDS WH A MAN OR WOMEN WANT TO HOLD HANDS, THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO ANYWHERE. WE'RE THE 21ST CENTURY, NOT THE 1800S."EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT LGBT+ ENJOY THE SAFETY OF A GAY BAR AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO ROUGHER BARS. ANTHONY SAYS STRAIGHT WOMEN OFTEN VIS HIS BAR AS A WAY OF AVOIDG MEN HTG ON THEM AND TO BE A PLACE WHERE THEY FEEL RPECTED.THE SUNDOWNERS OFTEN HOLD DRAG IDOL PETNS, HAVE DRS UP EVENGS AND QUIZ NIGHTSDISABLED AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE WILL ALSO VIS THE BARS BEE OF THEIR REPUTATN FOR BEG ACCEPTG TO ALL. ANTHONY ADD: "IT'S NOT JT A TO MAKE MONEY. IT'S A REFUGE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE A B IGHTENED, SOME OF G OUT AND SOME OF THEM ARE OLR PEOPLE WHO ONLY E OUT LATER LIFE."THE BAR OWNERS ALSO SAY SOME OF THEIR CTOMERS E TO THE BARS FOR THE UNIQUE ENTERTAMENT, SUCH AS DRAG ACTS, FANCY DRS NIGHTS, MICIANS AND A RANGE OF GS - A VARIETY WHICH THEY SAY MOST PUBS NOW LACK. LOOKG BACK FOR LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH, GAY BARS HAVE SEEN A WARMER WELE THE GENERAL MUNY THE PAST FEW S. BUT NOW MANY ARE CLOSG DOWN ACROSS THE UNTY. DUNN REMEMBERS THREE WHICH WERE ONCE OPEN THA AND CANTERBURY HAS SEEN FOUR OTHERS CLOSE DOWN. LIME’S LOUNGE AND THE SUNDOWNERS ARE NOW THE ONLY GAY BARS THOSE AREAS.VISORS ENJOYG A DRK AT THE LIM BARTHE SUNDOWNERS OWNER HAS A THEORY AS TO WHY MORE BARS ARE CLOSG DOWN.HE SAID: "THE ST OF RENTS AND BS TAX RAT HAVE CLOSED A LOT OF THEM DOWN. BUT ALSO PEOPLE E SOCIAL MEDIA TO MEET MORE AND I THK THAT HAS A BIG BEARG."WHEREAS, GOG BACK, THERE WAS NO SOCIAL MEDIA, THERE WERE NO DATG APPS. SO PEOPLE ED TO HAVE TO GO TO A GAY BAR TO MEET ANOTHER GAY PERSON."THE 59-YEAR-OLD BELIEV THIS HAS IMPACTED THE STRAIGHT DATG WORLD AS WELL, BUT HS GAY BARS MUCH MORE BEE OF HOW SENTIAL THEY WERE FOR LGBT+ PEOPLE TO FD OTHERS LIKE THEMSELV.HOWEVER, NEHER OF THE OWNERS BELIEVE GAR BARS ARE GOG TO DIE OUT AS THEY STILL OFFER A SPACE PEOPLE NEED.TONY BUTCHER, OWNER OF LIM LOUNGE: “ANYONE WHO LIK THE GAY MUNY IS WELE.”ANTHONY AND DUNN HAVE BOTH NOTICED A RECENT RISE HOSTILY TOWARDS LGBT+ PEOPLE AND SAY HAS HAD A PART TO PLAY THE CLOSG OF SOME OF THE BARS.DUNN SAID: "I THK THERE IS FELY MORE ACCEPTANCE, BUT THE WORRYG TREND IS AT THE MOMENT WE HAVE AN CREASE HOMOPHOBIC ASSLTS THE UNTRY. IT'S FELY GONE BACKWARDS, I WOULD SAY, THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS."ACRDG TO THE LATT CROWN PROSECUTN SERVICE FIGUR, HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC HATE CRIM ALT WH BY PROSECUTORS KENT CREASED OM 38 2017/18 TO 62 2018/19.HATE CRIM TOWARDS LGBT+ PEOPLE HAS QUADPLED KENT SCE 2013/14, WHEN JT 14 S WERE ALT WH BY PROSECUTORS, 12 S RULTED NVICTNS AND TWO S DID NOT.THE RISE THE NUMBERS OF S MAY BE BEE PEOPLE HAVE MORE NFINCE REPORTG HATE CRIME, HOWEVER, THE LGBT+ CHARY STONEWALL, SUGGTS THE RISE HAS CID WH RISG BAT AROUND LGBT+ CLIVE TN AND TRANSGENR EQUALY.ANTHONY IS ADAMANT HE IS AN DTRY WHICH WOULD GO ON FOREVER. HE IS HOPEFUL FOR THE FUTURE, AS GAY BARS EVOLVE WH THE CHANGG TIM.HE SAID: “THE GAY MUNY IS NOT GOG BACK, THEY’RE GOG FORWARD BEE WE’RE GETTG BRAVER."I'VE WORKED HARD THIS DTRY FOR A VERY LONG TIME, 'S NICE TO KNOW THE BARRIERS ARE BREAKG DOWN AND PEOPLE ARE ENJOYG THEMSELV. ANYONE WHO LIK THE GAY MUNY IS WELE”READ MORE: ALL THE LATT NEWS OM KENT FOR MORE REAL LIFE STORI, CLICK HERE. --> CANTERBURY HUMAN INTERT KENT THA SOPHIE BIRD _PLUGMANAGER.SETTARGETVALUE("ARTICLEID", "221579"); FOLLOW MOST POPULAR

Alongsi Glterbomb, Canterbury also has s own gay bar open seven days a week lled Lim. A mix of straight, gay and bi wh fantastic mic and a dance-floor but also sofas for chillg. Me and my partner are mature gays but the rt of the group were hetrosexual.

We had an absolute blast the staff (Simon) was very iendly and so were the ladi, strange part was the girl group only had two gay ladi as well, need i say anymore.

Cy’s only gay bar says police are tryg to ‘ccify’ them wh ‘absurd’ allegatns (Lim Lounge, Canterbury). Canterbury’s only gay bar has claimed police are tryg to “ccify” after s licence was put unr review followg a number of ll-outs.

GAY CANTERBURY

Police documents show that officers have been lled to dozens of alleged cints at the gay bar over the past year, cludg one which saw a “group wh swords” beg kicked out of the bar on 15 Augt.

GAY NIGHTLIFE CANTERBURY

“We’ve had to throw people out for beg abive or homophobic, but some of the reports are mental. Shortly after the gay bar opened, Butcher explaed that Lim Lounge had been the target of an onslght of anti-gay threats and visors, cludg threats om the uncil to whdraw the bar’s licence.

Then uncil assistant director Larissa Reed said at the time: “We absolutely refute any suggtn of homophobia on our part or that the uncil has an agenda agast this premis. The owner of a gay bar has said we shouldn't need to have them the 21st century, but they have bee a bean of acceptance to many recent yearsParents of LGBT+ children Kent are now g them for advice.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS CANTERBURY

Visors all drsed up at The SundownersOwners of gay bars have been at the foreont of their muny movg out om basements and now they are sentially the same as any other Bayl, 59, who ns The Sundowners Tha, said: "Bars are a lot more the open now.

"Now we're que happy to advertise we are a gay bar, which is a big step forward.

”Anthony says bars like his are a refuge to all, cludg celebri, virs, police, armed forc, urt workers and ernment workers, who are aaid to e out but know their secret will be safe wh bar believ an ial world we shouldn't need gays bars. "Even people who are not LGBT+ enjoy the safety of a gay bar as an alternative to rougher bars. Lookg back for LGBT+ History Month, gay bars have seen a warmer wele the general muny the past few s.