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Contents:
- THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
- THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
- NIGHTCLUBBG: GAY CLUBBG ’70S LONDON
- GAY PARTI AND EVENTS LONDON
- THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
- THE BT GAY BARS LONDON
- LONDON GAY CLUBS
THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
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24 plac sorted by traveler favorBars & Clubs • Gay BarsTrafalgar Square / EmbankmentBars & Clubs • Gay BarsLeicter Square / Shaftbury AvenueGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissTrafalgar Square / EmbankmentWhat travelers are saygBier than expected but service was fast and iendly. Brilliant staff (pecially Jack, the fabulo bar manager and cktail maker), fabulo cktails and a relaxed atmosphere for all whether gay, straight or somethg else. A beguilg, alternative London gay bar.
In my opn, ManBar ceased to tra after a dispute wh a stupid neighbour and Wtmister's plans to "sanise" the wt end and get rid of gay bars. While London’s queer nightclub scene has seen some sad, untimely partur, such as the Coleherne (briefly the Pembroke), London’s olst gay bar until s closure, and the Joer’s Arms, there are still some long-standg venu and new-ers to the scene workg hard to keep London’s queer nightlife alive.
THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
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Heaven, Charg Cross Cred: Lda Brdley, via Heaven One of the bt-known, most historic gay clubs London statned up s inic Charg Cross spot.
NIGHTCLUBBG: GAY CLUBBG ’70S LONDON
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Royal Vxhall Tavern, Vxhall The Royal Vxhall Tavern is a te slice of LGBTQ+ history London – a Gra II Listed venue that was famoly raid by police 1987 amidst over-policg of London’s gay muny.
BJ’s Whe Swan, Limehoe Another longstandg London gay bar, which has been gog strong for over 30 years, is BJ’s Whe Swan East London. The Glory, Haggerston The Glory pris self beg one of East London’s bt gay bars, drag hotho, LGBTQ+ performance venu, nightclubs, and curators of London shows, ftivals, ntts and battl. Before 1976, gay venu London me two tegori.
GAY PARTI AND EVENTS LONDON
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THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
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DJ Tricky Dicky was one of the first promoters to grasp the ia of the one-nighter – hirg out a pub or bar for the night, jt to put on a gay night. His Dick’s Inn Gay Dis operated out of straight venu as far afield as Croydon, Ilford, Bishopsgate and Eton, packg a few hundred gay boys and girls at a time.
Wh his pop and soul mic reviews and dis chart Gay News, Tricky Dicky received verage om a gay prs more terted polics, cema, theatre and opera than the mercial gay 1975 Tricky Dicky held a one-nighter lled Fangs unrneath a hotel Paddgton and, much to his surprise, the place was full to pacy, wh 600 dancg queens lappg up every mute.
The night didn’t last long due to terference om the venue’s owners, who were none too happy about homos takg over their space.
THE BT GAY BARS LONDON
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1976 was a groundbreakg year for gay dis London, thanks to the arrival of Bang, London’s first gay superclub. Gary London, already rint at the Sundowner on straight nights, took his spiratn for Bang om the big gay clubs of New York, LA and San Francis.
For London’s scenters and disphil, a trip to Bang s early days, wh s vastns and hedonistic dis energy, uld be as liberatg as gog on a Gay Pri march (whose numbers those days were srcely bigger than a Bang crowd). Speakg at the time Gay News, London proselytised for the newly overground clubs: “Diss create the right environment for gays.
Legendary gay dis DJ Talullah, who up until his untimely ath 2008 was still DJg London and abroad, had first-hand experience of New York dis at s height. Talullah ttified to Bang’s unifyg effect on the gay unrground.
LONDON GAY CLUBS
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However, the number of smaller gay diss that thrived durg this perd proved that Bang certaly didn’t have the monopoly on hedonism or dis. The Rabow Dis, hoed unrneath the Rabow Rooms Manor Hoe, was advertised Gay News as playg all the bt Amerin soul and funk, but also boasted dis mic on the playlist. Meanwhile, Chris Hill DJ’ed at so-lled “New York gay dis” nights such as Wt End Affair at Crackers Soho and East End Affair at the Lacy Lady Essex.
Adams Leicter Square was another Wt End gay club playg all the latt dis sounds. Lus then went back to Earls Court to take his rincy at the Copabana, a much-need large club for the area, then still the hub of London’s gay scene, givg the regulars of The Colherne and Bromptons pubs some late-night actn.
But took the arrival 1978 of the Embassy Club Bond Street to really brg an element of glamour to the gay dis scene. Jeremy Norman, chairman of historil high-society gui Burke’s Peerage, was spired to open The Embassy after numero trips to New York clubs, where the openns and signer dg-fuelled liftyle of the cy’s flourishg gay life ntrasted wh London’s parochial feel (you uld still get banned some venu for sniffg poppers).