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Contents:

• DUBL GAY BARS GUI - BT GAY HANGOUTS DUBL, IRELAND
• THE BT OF GAY DUBL
• DUBL'S GAY SCENE WAS HIDN BUT WAS THRIVG
• DUBL: GAY AND LBIAN DUBL
• THE GAY & LBIAN SCENE DUBL
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS DUBL
• GAY DUBLIN

DUBL GAY BARS GUI - BT GAY HANGOUTS DUBL, IRELAND

It wasn’t always that way, but there has been a massive shift general attus sce the crimalisatn of homosexualy 1993. BarsDubl’s olst and biggt gay bar is The Gee, which has been servg the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny for over thirty years.

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Also worth checkg out is the Internatnal Gay Theatre Ftival, which ually tak place May and featur LGBTQ+-themed productns staged theatr and smaller venu across the cy. Out2Tennis, meanwhile, is Ireland’s gay tennis work, anisg events and tournaments around the cy.

Media ptnPractice your serve wh Out2Tennis, Ireland's gay tennis work. As the cultural and polil pal of the Republic of Ireland, which has bee creasgly progrsive and gay-iendly recent years, havg recently legalized same-sex marriage, iendly and energetic Dubl li at the heart of the untry's gay scene. This eply lerary and historic metropolis wh about 530, 000 rints wh s cy lims hosts the popular Dubl Gay Pri late June, and the heart of the btlg - albe touristy - Temple Bar nightlife district, you'll fd a handful of extremely popular gay bars.

DUBL'S GAY SCENE WAS HIDN BUT WAS THRIVG

Here's a pilatn - alphabetic orr - of the key hangouts popular wh gays, lbians, and their iends this pact, handsome cy bisected by the picturque River Liffey. The Gee - Gay Bar. Across om Dame Lane, jt south of Dame St., 1-478-2983) is one of the inic gay bars of Europe, and by far the most popular LGBT tablishment Dubl.

The Gee is a popular sectn of the cy center, a short walk om several excellent rtrants (Fallon & Byrne, Rtic Stone), and om here 's also an easy stroll to the handful of other gay bars Dubl. Named for the wty and wry - and famo his day - Irish gay lerary in Osr Wil, Osrs actually has two tablishments Dubl, both of them exceedgly supportive of and welg toward LGBT folks.

A 15-mute walk wt, jt beyond Temple Bar and gg the Dubl Cy Council plex, Osrs Cafe Bar Christchurch (16-18 Fishamble St., 1-555-1442) serv siarly lic food and drk and also draws a good mix of folks, straight and gay but always iendly.

DUBL: GAY AND LBIAN DUBL

The Christchurch venue is large enough for events, too, and has hosted a number of gay weddgs.

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Pantibar - Gay Bar. Somethg of an stutn thanks to s extraordary owner, the great diva, LGBT activist, and drag in Rory O'Neill, Pantibar (7 1, 8 Capel St., no phone) opened 2007 and is loted a brightly lored space Dubl's ner Northsi, jt a short stroll across the River Liffey via the Grattan Bridge - 's an easy walk om the cy's other gay bars. The cy’s pact size means ’s easy to bop om place to place and LGBT travellers shouldn’t feel they’re limed to ‘official’ gay-iendly venu; would be difficult to fd a venue Dubl cy centre you won’t be wele .

If you want to dive head-first to the gay scene though, the are the plac to start. As many Wtern ci, gay bars are more likely to be closg down than openg up Dubl, as homosexualy be more accepted across all venu. North of the Liffey, Pantibar ntu to draw crowds, thanks part to beg owned by the unofficial queen of Ireland, Panti Bliss, bonafi drag royalty and one of the untry’s leadg gay rights activists.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS DUBL

Wh lourful flowers and plenty of cycle lan, mak for a nice sojourn and has a wir signifince: the tragic murr of a lol gay man lled Declan Flynn the park 1982 is wily nsired the talyst for the Irish gay rights movement. LGBT-iendly venu existed long before homosexualy was legalised 1993. Break for the Borr stands place of Bartley Dunne’s, probably the untry’s first gay-iendly venue, which prid self on allowg punks and ‘alternative’ people , while the Vikg holds the tle of beg Ireland’s first exclively gay bar – ’s now unr new management and has been renamed Brogan’s.

The GAZE Film Ftival July has been celebratg LGBT storytellg for 25 years, while the Dubl Gay Theatre Ftival tak place smaller venu across the cy May. Like all ci, homophobic cints are not unheard of but are few and far between, and public displays of affectns between same-sex upl are que monplace.

(Part of the NPA/Inpennt Newspapers Collectn)Unr the terms of the 1885 Crimal Law Amendment Act, homosexual acts were a crimal offence Ireland when Charl Self arrived Dubl to work RTE. Yet spe the stigma, the cy had a thrivg gay famo Gate theatre duo Micheal Mac Liammoir and Hilton Edwards were openly gay. Norman Stt, who later attaed notoriety as the lover of UK Liberal Party lear Jeremy Thorpe, was livg Kildare Street Dubl the late 1970s and equented the lol ffee shops and was an unrground scene prised of married men, prits and proment public figur who lived nstant fear of beg 'outed' more obv gay scene was centred around the theatre and RTE, which was known by some both the gay and polil muni as 'Fairyhoe'.

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Bartley Dunne's pub, along wh Rice's and Tob's nearby, formed a triangle of 'gay-iendly' pubs before the term was wily e. None of them were strictly gay and they liked to keep an eclectic clientele so that proment figur the legal profsn, actors and the like would not stand out as beg obvly homosexual at a time when was murr of Charl Self shone a spotlight on this world.

"The Garda rponse was to round up 1, 500 known gay men and build a data bank of fgerprts and photographs and ask who they slept wh and for their partners' nam, " said Brian Merriman, director of the Gay and Lbian Equaly Network (GLEN).

"Homosexualy was crimalised Ireland 1993, maly at the stigatn of Senator David Norris, by the then Mister for Jtice Maire Geoghegan-Qun.