Includg a legendary gay swimmg spot.
Contents:
- IGLA/GAY GAM UPDATE: IGLA 2023 WILL BE HELD LONDON JUNE OF NEXT YEAR, GAY GAM WILL BE HELD HONG KONG & GUADALAJARA NOVEMBER OF NEXT YEAR!
- INSI CHARTS, LONDON'S BIGGT GAY SNA
- INTERNATNAL GAY AND LBIAN AQUATICS ANNOUNC CHAMPNSHIPS FOR 2022 AND 2023
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
IGLA/GAY GAM UPDATE: IGLA 2023 WILL BE HELD LONDON JUNE OF NEXT YEAR, GAY GAM WILL BE HELD HONG KONG & GUADALAJARA NOVEMBER OF NEXT YEAR!
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Goslgs has s origs 1976, as an rmal gatherg of gay swimmers on Mondays at the Oasis Pool High Holborn. In 1982, the group succeed gettg private hire of the Oasis on Thursdays, as part of the Gay Outdoor Club (GOC).
In 1985, the swimmg club beme pennt of GOC, and the name Goslgs was adopted (as Gay Outdoor Swimmg London-gs). Collected om the 19th century, the archive — curated by the imable Stef Dickers — brims wh prs cuttgs, lbian pulp fictn, 90s gay mags, necsary documentatn of the HIV/AIDS crisis and Sectn 28 — and everythg between. Gay's the word.
Bookshop extraordaire: Gay's The Word.
INSI CHARTS, LONDON'S BIGGT GAY SNA
UPDATED AND REVISED ON MONDAY, MAY 30, 2022: The 2022 Internatnal Gay & Lbian Aquatics Champnships (IGLA 2022) was held Palm Sprgs back April! Thank you to the Internatnal Gay & Lbian Aquatics Associatn (IGLA) Board of Directors, Wt Hollywood Aquatics and Long Beach Gnns for their hard at work puttg together IGLA… * gay swimming london *
The first of s kd, Gay's The Word Soho opened as the UK’s first dited LGBTQ+ bookshop 1979. Persecuted Irish poet Osr Wil has a ff-shaped cigarette-holdg statue jt off Trafalgar Square (and plaqu around town, cludg one at Clapham Junctn statn), while gay breaker Alan Turg has a steel 'statue' Paddgton.
INTERNATNAL GAY AND LBIAN AQUATICS ANNOUNC CHAMPNSHIPS FOR 2022 AND 2023
Regulars at Charts gay sna Shoredch tell Alix Fox about etiquette, myths and generally hangg out. * gay swimming london *
The first-ever gay rights monstratn, Highbury Fields 1970, is memorated wh a plaque too. Keep an eye on their socials for nights llaboratn wh Gay Tim or Pengu Books, too. Unniably one of the most ccial parts of London's gay history, the men's pond on Hampstead Heath is the clost Londoners get to a gay beach.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
The wild swimmg pond on Hampstead Heath is a summer mec for gay men.
Found 25 years ago by a small band of enterprisg swimmers om the LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans) muny, most of our members are LGBT, although we wele all adults wh an tert aquatic sport, cludg disabled swimmers. The 2022 Internatnal Gay & Lbian Aquatics Champnships (IGLA 2022) was held Palm Sprgs back April!