Bath bker turned Glastonbury ftival-performer talks 'gay exorcism', LGBTQ+ activism and vampir - Somerset Live

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• “GLASTONBURY IS REALLY QUEER!”: BEHD THE SCEN AT NYC DOWNLOW, THE FTIVAL’S RINT GAY CLUB
• BATH BKER TURNED GLASTONBURY FTIVAL-PERFORMER TALKS 'GAY EXORCISM', LGBTQ+ ACTIVISM AND VAMPIRTHIS 27-YEAR-OLD HAS AN CREDIBLE STORY TO TELLSOMERSETLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYRICHARD MILLSBRIGHTON & HOVE ALBN RRPONNT05:00, 2 DEC 2018UPDATED08:28, 3 DEC 2018BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWWANT TO RECEIVE THE LATT TOP STORI OM AROUND BATH STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX?MORE 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 WANT TO RECEIVE THE LATT TOP STORI OM AROUND BATH STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX?INVALID 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 BAR GLASTONBURY
• 2016: A GAY BAR AT GLASTONBURY FTIVAL BEME THE UK’S BT CLUB

“GLASTONBURY IS REALLY QUEER!”: BEHD THE SCEN AT NYC DOWNLOW, THE FTIVAL’S RINT GAY CLUB

” So says drag superstar Jonny Woo, backstage at NYC Downlow, Glastonbury’s rint gay club, molled on New York’s meatpackg district the ‘80s. 2019 marks 50 years sce Stonewall, the anti-homophobia rts held New York.

BATH BKER TURNED GLASTONBURY FTIVAL-PERFORMER TALKS 'GAY EXORCISM', LGBTQ+ ACTIVISM AND VAMPIRTHIS 27-YEAR-OLD HAS AN CREDIBLE STORY TO TELLSOMERSETLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYRICHARD MILLSBRIGHTON & HOVE ALBN RRPONNT05:00, 2 DEC 2018UPDATED08:28, 3 DEC 2018BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWWANT TO RECEIVE THE LATT TOP STORI OM AROUND BATH STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX?MORE 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 WANT TO RECEIVE THE LATT TOP STORI OM AROUND BATH STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX?INVALID 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!

” Add a gay exorcism and performg at Glastonbury Ftival, and you have the gredients for another fascatg Bath character. LGBTQ+ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, ) Activist and Eastern Orthodox Theologian Nik, who was born Bath but his fay are om Serbia, realised at the age of 11 he was gay. Nik, who at tim hid om his extend fay that he was gay, said he learned to believe that bee he was not attracted to girls, he was ‘sick’, ‘perverted’ and ‘gog to hell’.

GAY BAR GLASTONBURY

Sce then he has set up the Youtube channel, Orthodox Provotr, a page that aims to challenge the ‘homophobic rhetoric’ found the Orthodox Church. Gay exorcism Perhaps the most noteworthy example Nik - who helped set up Bath Pri and lnched Midsomer Norton Pri - has done on this topic is when he took part a gay exorcism Moldova this year. He travelled ep to the mountas to a ceremony where a prit would dispel the ‘evil gay spirs’ that lurked si him.

2016: A GAY BAR AT GLASTONBURY FTIVAL BEME THE UK’S BT CLUB

The 'skeleton church' where the gay exorcism took place. I had to tst the people who were tryg to get the ‘gay mon’ out of me.