THE BEST Glasgow Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023) - Tripadvisor

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• THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW
• GAY DATG GLASGOW
• BT GAY BARS IN GLASGOW
• THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW
• GLASGOW GAY DISTRICT: MERCHANT CY
• GLASGOW GAY PRI
• THE WATERLOO, THE VTNERS AND THE OTHER GO-TO GLASGOW GAY SPOTS OF YTERYEARWE LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE PLAC THAT BEME WELL KNOWN HNTS FOR THE CY'S GAY MUNY THE 70S AND 80S - WH SPECIAL MENTN TOO TO THE LEGEND WHO WAS BETTY HUTTONGLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCRAIG WILLIAMS14:15, 1 JAN 2019UPDATED19:38, 29 MAY 2020BOOKMARKTHE WATERLOO BAR IS GLASGOW'S OLST GAY PUB (IMAGE: FACEBOOK)GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXMORE 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 GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXINVALID 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!
• GLASGOW GAY MAP
• THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW

THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW

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Jt make sure to check out our gui to Glasgow's gay bars, as they really have got the cy's LGBTQ+ nightlife ssed.

If you're lookg for the bt gay bars Glasgow's Merchant Cy, Speakeasy really is a top spot. Katie's Bar offers an utterly mixed bag to the cy's gay nightlife. AXM is a gay club that's garnered a solid reputatn and a loyal crowd of regulars.

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Glasgow is gay all over, but there are also specific gay neighborhoods wh a high ncentratn of fantastic gay bars and clubs the prettit part of the cy.

The majory of gay venu are... The majory of gay venu are around Virgia Street, the pretty Merchant Cy district. The Merchant Cy district is the heart of Glasgow's gay actn, wh the Pk Triangle boastg some of the most fun gay hangouts the cy.

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Thanks to plac such as Delmoni’s, Katie’s Bar, AXM and nights such as Hot Ms and Shoot Your Shot, Glasgow pre-lockdown had a thrivg gay pub and club scene. From a time when Glasgow uld be nsired a hostile place for the gay muny - and not jt bee the participatn homosexual acts was emed a crimal offence. This meant that bars the 1960s were fairly discreet, until a gay scene appeared almost overnight the cy the early 1970s.

Before then Glasgow’s gay scene was effectively centred around hoe parti - the most famo of which took place regularly at Novar Drive the Hyndland area. In the early 1970s, The De of Wellgton Argyle Street was one of the first pubs that was taken over by Glasgow’s LGBT+ muny, wh the Waterloo Bar next door also havg a reputatn of beg both gay (and prostute) iendly. The Waterloo on Argyle Street, Glasgow's olst gay pub.

"Betty was a larger than life character on the gay scene Glasgow when I first took my tentative steps onto the scene the early 1990's. Meanwhile, 1980, the Sttish Homosexual Rights Group bought a premis at Queen’s Crcent to form a licenced Gay Club. Wh a fé and functn sue, was succsful for some time, but uld not pete wh other new gay venu which had recently e on the scene Glasgow.

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The Court Bar on Hutchon Street (which shut 2015) would "turn gay" at 8pm om the mid 1980s onwards, wherpon is said that not only the staff changed, but an alternative and higher price list was fetched om unr the unter and affixed to the wall. And the 1970s and early 80s also saw the appearance of gay iendly diss the cy, such as the Great Wtern Hotel along Gt Wtern Road and Fire Island at Crs on Partick Bridge St. Dr Meek plotted a number of maps published on his webse Queer Stland by terviewg gay men as part of his PHD.

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He pored though archiv, legal rerds and gay magaz datg back to the 1980s, which listed bars, clubs, rtrants and cemas where people uld vis.

Same-sex sexual activy wasn't legalised Stland until 1981 but there were many bars, rtrants and hot-spots across the cy for gay men and women to meet. Gay and bisexual men were forced to refully partmentalise their liv to keep their sexualy unr wraps and avoid beg exposed – as the nsequenc on their workg liv, fai and reputatns would be grave. Dr Meek's terviewe also told how officers would also e to pubs at closg time on Friday and Saturday night for a drk to timidate patrons and staff, g homophobic language.

” There were gay or gay-iendly bars such as Vtners on Cly Street, At's and The Strand on Hope Street, while the bars at the Cizen's Theatre and the Central Hotel beme safe spac for the muny to socialise the 1950s and 1960s – even if they were not advertised as such.

THE WATERLOO, THE VTNERS AND THE OTHER GO-TO GLASGOW GAY SPOTS OF YTERYEARWE LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE PLAC THAT BEME WELL KNOWN HNTS FOR THE CY'S GAY MUNY THE 70S AND 80S - WH SPECIAL MENTN TOO TO THE LEGEND WHO WAS BETTY HUTTONGLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCRAIG WILLIAMS14:15, 1 JAN 2019UPDATED19:38, 29 MAY 2020BOOKMARKTHE WATERLOO BAR IS GLASGOW'S OLST GAY PUB (IMAGE: FACEBOOK)GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXMORE 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 GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXINVALID 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!

By the 1980s, there were more openly gay and mixed bars on the scene such as Delmoni's, Guys Bar, the Waterloo Bar and Bent's (now AXM) which attracted a typilly younger, more affluent crowd. The historian argu ltle has been done to regnise the cy's rich LGBTQ herage: One example was the Glasgow Gay Centre at 534 Schiehall Street, where the Charg X Hostel now stands. Unsurprisgly, there was some hostily om nservative uncillors, lols and neighbourg anisatns at the time, cludg a bld veterans group next door to 'The Club', set up by the Homosexual Rights Group for social functns at 4 Queen's Crcent the wt end.

“The volunteers reportedly received plats that patrons would be ‘terfered’ by homosexuals. (Image: Gay Stland (via Queer Stland)).

While gay-iendly towns and ci, large and small, n be found all over Stland, nowhere is Pri more ont-and-center than this metropolan mec, whose archectural juxtaposn of the old and the new is mirrored by s history, herage, and thrivg LGBTQ+ culture today. Flickers of homosexualy first emerged 1586, when Poem 49 beme one of the first lbian love poems ever penned.

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The Wolfenn Report was published 1957, to asss the validy of such a law, and whether or not homosexualy should ed be a crimal offense. England and Wal crimalized homosexualy 1967, and while Stland remaed hostile towards LGBTQ+ people, the Sttish Mori Group arose Glasgow to fight for rights 1969, a mere month before the Stonewall Rts broke out New York Cy. Groups like the Sttish Mori Group amped up their efforts the early ‘70s, tablishg the Edburgh Gay Swchboard 1972, the untry’s first gay center Edburgh 1975, and the Glasgow Gay Centre 1977.

Makg up for years of lost time and homophobic laws, Glasgow tablished the Homophobic Crime Le 2002, as a way to buckle down on hate crim the cy.

In 2014, same-sex marriage was legalized Stland, and 2021, the untry beme the first the world to platform and prrize LGBTQ+ tn throughout s school curriculums — que the reversal om Sectn 28, a “Don’t Say Gay” law om 1988 that barred teachers om discsg LGBTQ+ issu whatsoever. Nowadays, centuri after some of the world’s first known lbian poetry and gay monarchs, Glasgow is home to the largt Pri celebratns Stland, held annually the summer. Elsewhere, the Lbian Archive and Informatn Centre is on display at the Glasgow Women’s Library, Category is Books is the only LGBTQ+ bookstore Stland, and gay bars and clubs n be found throughout the cy, om drag shows and karaoke at Katie’s Bar to the rabow-bright dance floors at The Polo Lounge.

THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW

In 1975 bgrapher Antonia Fraser wr there is ‘no reason not to assume the obv, ’ namely that he was gay. 1957: the UK ernment create a Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn.

Male homosexualy remas a crime Stland and Northern Ireland. It’s a self-help anisatn workg for the rights of homosexual men and women. 1972: SMG lnch Edburgh Gay Swchboard.