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• THE BEST CORNWALL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CORNWALL
• GAY CORNWALL TRAVEL GUI
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CORNWALL
• THE BEST CORNWALL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CORNWALL
• A FRIENDLY TRIP TO GAY CORNWALL
• LGBT HISTORY MONTH AND REMEMBERG CORNWALL'S LOST GAY CLUBS
• CORNWALL'S ONLY GAY BAR HAS BEEN PUT UP FOR SALE AND HERE'S WHAT THEY'RE BLAMGTHE BAR OWNERS SAY MOVG CORNWALL PRI CRIPPLED THEMRNWALLLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSWHAT'S ONBYCHRIS MATTHEWSCOURT REPORTER16:52, 12 SEP 2017UPDATED18:10, 12 SEP 2017BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWSIGN UP FOR OUR TRO NEWSLETTER AND YOU'LL NEVER MISS A BIG STORY AGAMORE 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 FOR OUR TRO NEWSLETTER AND YOU'LL NEVER MISS A BIG STORY AGAINVALID 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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— Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective. Gay Cornwall. From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis.

A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! It’s been ten years sce Eclipse, Cornwall’s only gay club closed, but there’s great news for the unty’s LGBT+ muny and everyone who wants a good night out. There is not a signated night at any club Cornwall for the LGBT+ muny so is agreed that such an event has long been need, pecially sce Tro’s gay bar Déjà Vu closed a uple of years ago.

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"Gay owned / gay iendly". Out In The Open - Gay Campse. We, (like a lot of farms Cornwall), set up a mpse for the solar eclipse 1999 & after this, we cid to rema open as a gay mpse.

"Lbian owned / Gay Friendly". Gay B&B Homtay.

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Gay Homtay B&B In a 16th Century terraced ttageClose to the goln sands of Hayle. "Gay iendly". Gay owned and n Hotel between Mevagissey and Portmellon Cove close to Coastal Path, beach, En Project and Lost Garns of Heligan.

"Gay Owned/ Gay Friendly". As my partner and I were planng our recent trip to Cornwall ( the far southwt of the English maland), I was surprised by the number of B&Bs there that claimed to be “gay-iendly. ” The last supposedly gay-iendly place we’d stayed at was a hotel smopolan London where, when we were checkg , the receptnist said, “Oh, I’m sorry!

THE BEST CORNWALL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CORNWALL

Iv, we quickly got ed to beg able to hold hands or show affectn whout anyone mentg, but when we went to the small village of Tennor, known for s 13th century pub, we were remd of how non-gay-iendly so many plac actually are. All told, we had a wonrful time Cornwall and found to be a mostly gay-iendly place to vis. There is a gay Cornwall gui that lists events and gathergs the area.

General News Cornwall se two homophobic cints November. Cornwall has seen multiple reports of homophobic harassment, both directed at gay men, throughout November. Booze, “wacky” adventur, and a safe space which to exprs your te self: the are some of the thgs which Cornwall’s LGBT muny are missg out on now that the era of the unty’s gay clubs has passed.

Wh the closure of Tro’s Deja Vu, and before that the Eclipse, among many others, ten years ago - lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and other members of the LGBTQ+ muny are whout a nighttime space to ll home.

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Shn Hill, a re worker om St Columb Road who briefly fled Cornwall his early 20s to explore the slightly more excg-soundg Manchter, said growg up gay Cornwall now mt be tricky whout an LGBT night scene. His first experience wh a gay club was a night lled lled Pki, hosted on a Friday and Saturday at Sandridge Hotel, Newquay, years ago.

’ - I me out as bi knowg I was gay, but was slightly ls of a blow to e out as bi. ” Shn’s experienc wh gay clubs Cornwall certaly did not end wh Pki. ” Abbie, who has also lived Penzance and Essex, said even the goln era of gay clubs the unty - there was never a huge amount of choice.

” Pl Philip, 45, who scrib himself as Cornish through and through - and “100 per cent gay” - said the unty has never had the largt selectn of clubs to choose om. Pl also spoke about the bad tim, and the homophobia which unfortunately led to the shuttg down of several clubs.

LGBT HISTORY MONTH AND REMEMBERG CORNWALL'S LOST GAY CLUBS

“There was still that whole prejudice of beg gay. “Even on the other nights, when the gay night wasn’t on, there was a ck. ” At another club, Frisbe Newquay, which had a gay bar on the top floor, he relled a woman enterg wh her male partner and llg two men kissg “disgtg.

CORNWALL'S ONLY GAY BAR HAS BEEN PUT UP FOR SALE AND HERE'S WHAT THEY'RE BLAMGTHE BAR OWNERS SAY MOVG CORNWALL PRI CRIPPLED THEMRNWALLLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSWHAT'S ONBYCHRIS MATTHEWSCOURT REPORTER16:52, 12 SEP 2017UPDATED18:10, 12 SEP 2017BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWSIGN UP FOR OUR TRO NEWSLETTER AND YOU'LL NEVER MISS A BIG STORY AGAMORE 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 FOR OUR TRO NEWSLETTER AND YOU'LL NEVER MISS A BIG STORY AGAINVALID 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!

“Gay clubs will let straight people , too, and the number of hen nights at gay clubs… “We’re here bee we’re a muny, when groups of straight women go feels like ‘hang on a mute, this isn’t how should feel.

’ “But, part of what has wiped out gay clubs is that we’re jt more accepted everywhere else. ” Somethg all of the ex-clubbers all agreed on was the importance of gay clubs for such a ral unty, which is somethg Cornwall Pri aniser Matthew Kentworthy was keen to highlight.