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- THE BT GAY BARS LONDON
- THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
- LONDON GAY BARS
- ONE OF LONDON'S OLST GAY BARS POURG LAST PT
- THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
THE BT GAY BARS LONDON
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1866 The Coleherne, gay om the 1950s?, closed 24 September 2008 (261 Earls Court Road, Earls Court). 1981 Bolts (Lazer, Green Lan, Hargay). 1991 Sadie Maisie (London Lbian and Gay Centre, 67–69 Cowcross Street, Farrgdon).
TheGayUK has a list of 102 bars and 32 clubs that have closed London sce 2000. ↑ Rictor Norton, Life of Thomas Neav 1729, Homosexualy Eighteenth-Century England. ↑ Jam Kirkup, A Poet Could not but be Gay, page 195.
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↑ Listed April 1977 Gay News no 117. Not listed Nov 1978 no 156 Gay News. ↑ Listed Gay news no 154 Nov 1978 advert page 7 Copabana Nights.
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London Gay Bar Gui. Fd the bt gay bars and pubs London, UK. Inclus Soho and Vxhall. Reviews, openg hours, gay map and . * first gay bar in london *
(Monday and Saturday) and also Propaganda (Thursday) were n at 'Bbys Nightclub' (London) by gay club promoter and DJ Col Peters (Peter Dbeney), whose brother Jamie ntued as promoter for a perd followg the passg of Col. ↑ also listed Gay News Sept 1977 issue 127 as 'Glas Dis at Global Village. ↑ Featured Gay News issue 225 October 1981 page 24 Spotlight.
↑ Gay News issue 220 Spotlight on the Copabana p 21 stat Clifford Bell the straight man who brought you Copabana and who has jt lnched Harpoon Louie's bar. This baret and avant gar performance club, scribed as ‘a place given up to gaiety’, was for all tents and purpos the first ‘gay bar’, as we would unrstand today.
It didn’t take long before this gentlemen-only tablishment beme a renowned spot for homosexual liaisons, although had a mixed crowd, terg to civil servants and queer men alike.
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"Police scribed as a 'renzvo for homosexual perverts'".
Letters sent to police at the time scribe the space as a ‘renzvo for homosexual perverts’, wh terracial mglg and relatnships siarly chastised. Jim MacSweeney, manager at Soho's Gay's The Word, London's only LGBTQ+ bookshop. In 1986, a pub lled the Swiss Tavern, which had a reputatn for beg popular wh gay men, beme an explicly queer venue, Comptons.
THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
Queer pub Molly Moggs also closed, only to re-open briefly as a gay cktail bar. 9 Heddon Street is the former se of what is nsired to be the first gay bar England.
Notably, the thetre saw a strg of ‘Diva’ ncerts the 1950s to 1980s, featurg such stars as Shirley Bassey, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich and Liza Mnelli attractg a huge gay followg. The Long Bar at the Troro was a male only prerve, popular wh middle class gay men durg the 1920s and 1930s. It was an experimental ge theatre, which pneered the lunch time performance, and famoly staged the first ever season of gay plays Bra, early 1975.
The season, entled ‘Homosexual Acts’ featured three plays by gay wrers and directors, wh the tentn of sheddg a realistic light on the mastream gay stereotype. Most of London's bt gay bars n be found Soho; the cy’s gay district.