THE 10 BEST London Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023) - Tripadvisor

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• THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON

THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON

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 & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON

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. 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. HeavenGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissTrafalgar Square / Embankment14.

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. Gay clubs are so, you know they’re spac where gay people n go and like you know unlike the rt of the world they n go and be surround by people who are also gay, where they won’t get all the micro-aggrsns, where they won’t experience homophobia um so the space of the gay club has always been credibly important and birthed the betiful thgs like drag, um you know the spac where people n fally be what they want to be mak people also then um do the extraordary thgs when they feel safe enough to do them um like transgrs genr.

THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON

” ‘Judy’: “Visually when I started seeg you know, all the Steve Strang and Prcs Julias and Boy Gee and all that when they first started drsg up and I started gog to the Blz and then also another club had jt opened London, a big club lled Heaven and I hadn’t really e out to myself until then, so when this big gay club opened and I got a job there, then I realized, I mean I knew I was gay but I didn’t know any gay people really on the punk scene but when I me to London and was all the flamboyant new romantics and I got a job at Heaven gay club”‘Ajamu’: “At 18 I went to my first gay club. And so then so then now, I’m g to terms wh my sexualy now, walkg around Hudrsfield - a black guy - leather troers, whe t-shirt, a leather p thkg this is what gay means.

I mean yeah I thk London is btlg, but one thg I will say is that like pared to other ci, the um the kd of like, what’s happeng for queer like women, um like the lbian scene is pathetic London, there’s one gay bar, sorry one lbian bar and ’s ’s okay ’s not, I don’t know I wouldn’t go there you know, um like there’s not that many nights.

” ‘Alberto’: “I n remember I n remember there beg people around who would say that they were openly gay I mean that ’s certaly bee I kd of got ught up a b the new romantic thg you didn’t even qutn then you know to see Gee flntg around his kimono or whatever pre culture club or Steve Strange or whatever but was like you didn’t even thk about bee you’d been volved this world for two years prr to that or er yeah two years bee that would be around ‘80 right so you are no longer even qutng but jt, I’m not even talkg about the gay clubs that I was sayg earlier but actually gog to The Roxy or somethg you know wasn’t, The Roxy towards the end beme very horrible beme you know the whole punk thg moved on, all the great bands had got on to the circu and were dog big venu The Roxy was stuck wh I don’t know the sewer rats and the tube the ticket llectors or whatever kd of eight generatn punk bands, by the end of ‘77.