Gay Belfast | Bars, Pubs & Clubs | Belfast & Northern Ireland

Contents:

• THE BEST BELFAST GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BELFAST
• KEEP GAY
• TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS QUEEN'S QUARTER (BELFAST)GAY CLUBS & BARS QUEEN'S QUARTER
• FORMER OWNER OF BELFAST’S FIRST GAY BAR RELLS INLA P MURR AND IRA BOMBG
• GAY PUB BELFAST
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• CABARGAY
• GAY LIFE BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND
• TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS LISBURN ROAD (BELFAST)SEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LISBURN ROAD
• GAY PUB BELFAST
• A CENTURY AND MORE OF BELFAST GAY LIFE
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• GAY PUB BELFAST

THE BEST BELFAST GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BELFAST

Kreml, Unn Street and Maverick are Belfast's three Gay nightlife venu. For more tails on what’s on each night at the, and other gay-iendly bars and clubs, check out. Bsman Jim Murtagh says the ‘Gay Revolutn’ is the bt thg that ever happened to an terview wh the Sunday World, the former owner of the popular Parliament Bar, tells of his cisn to bee a -sponsor of the cy’s first ‘Gay Pri’ wnsed the Rev.

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Murtagh (67) also rells how his wife and son were forced to flee for their liv - along wh hundreds of gay ctomers - when the IRA built a bomb si his he sists the sadst day of his life was when he was told RUC officer Darren Bradshaw had been shot ad by the INLA, as he danced the night away his Darren Bradshaw, 24, was murred by INLA.

Our gay ctomers viewed Darren’s murr as an attack on the gay muny and as far as I and my staff were ncerned, they were right. Murtagh said the Parliament was the latt versn of his pub, havg been prevly known as the Dunbar Lk and then the Wateront, after the Marlon Brando film ‘On the Wateront’ Murtagh:“Our gay ctomers were brilliant. I’d been London and Dubl and I’d seen gay bars workg well.

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For a start everyone was Gay Pri para Belfast“We had managed to get back open for bs for bs after the IRA bombed the place.

The Parliament was a gay bar and was the bt thg we ever did.

FORMER OWNER OF BELFAST’S FIRST GAY BAR RELLS INLA P MURR AND IRA BOMBG

”“The ‘gay’ scene had arrived Belfast and the Parliament was the epicentre of .

Gay ctomers travelled om as far away as Derry, Donegal, Limavady and Strabane.

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The straight muny was learng how to treat the gay muny wh rpect. “And the gay muny - while enjoyg their new-found eedom - was learng how to -exist wh the straight muny. I told them to dch the bow ti and se at our new gay ctomers.

I orred them to extend the hand of iendship, bee they didn’t know how to wele gay people. “One bouncer wasn’t happy wh the new directn, but a few weeks later, I saw him on the dance floor wh a gay partner! “The gay revolutn had fely changed Northern Ireland for the batter, but Darren’s murr fished me wh the bar bs.

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Good traers will be found at gay gyms and n ually be full of good nsumers who will help you on your fns journey. Frankly, I’d have served a prison jt for him to hold my hand, like he did his off-whe Vxhall Nova on the drive there, breakg only to change, he took me for strawberry cir the Gloucter, a pub at the park’s edge, takg my tremblg hand his and reassurg me: “It’s actually a gay bar. Gay pubs are far more than bars; they’re refug.

On Sunday, the first a new seri of rabow plaqu will be stalled at the Gloucter – now the Greenwich Tavern – cementg s place gay home the workg-class Medway area of Kent, where we met when he sold me a phone cred rd at the lol petrol statn, “queers” like were wily perceived as predatory, perverted, spic or simply scum. ”After the strawberry cir, served by a man a tight whe vt – the only other gay man I’d seen real life – the squiggly summer sunlight ma a strobe effect through the park’s tre. The first time I saw wh him, when I was 18, I realised he had echoed the love story of the two protagonists, who also had their first kiss the twilight of Greenwich Park’s tre, and their first experience of a gay pub at the Gloucter.

THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

The explanatn for his obssn is now clear: there was such a pcy of same-sex love stori that this was the first time many young people had seen a same-sex kiss, or peeked si an actual gay bar after dark. The project remds people “that we have always been here, good tim and bad, ” David Robson of the London LGBT+ Foms’ Network said when the plaqu were film and my own story were workg-class gay love: not dandyish and sheltered by the polse of privilege, but the btal realy of beg perceived a non-mascule boy. It was a powerful and rarely told tersectn – and one that, even more rarely, ends rather happily, wh a betiful scene of fiance and acceptance played to a Mama Cass waltz on the sk I disvered that I wasn’t the only wi-eyed baby gay my boyiend had been chasg through those ancient chtnuts that summer.

For me, the plaque honours that private moment as well as the shared history of the LGBTQ+ ’s the msage I’d impart to anyone who thks such symbols are meangls, as the unique social history of the UK’s gay bars is endangered by gentrifitn, hook-up apps, the st of livg crisis and even assiatn. Like many workg-class, closeted gay boys, I’d hi unr the glovebox of my boyiend’s Nova when we drove back om the park, lt anyone saw.

It whispered to ckney-accented gay boys like me: there are others like you. Gay Belfast. Belfast is home to the largt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr ftival Ireland and the cy has a thrivg LGBTQI+ muny and gay scene.

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The annual Outburst Queer Arts Ftival is packed wh theatre, film, mic, visual art and discsns which explore and celebrate lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr stori and experienc. Belfast's bt gay bars and clubs are loted the cy's Gay Quarter area, north of the cy centre on the edge of the Cathedral Quarter.