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Candy Bar was a lesbian bar that was based in Carlisle Street in Soho, London. [1] It was started in 1996 by Kim Lucas who decorated the interior pink and provided lap and pole dancing. [2] [3] Men were allowed into the bar if accompanied by a woman. [4] In 2011, the bar was sold by Lucas to Gary Henshaw, owner of the Ku chain of London gay bars.
The door of the Gateways Club (then painted blue), taken March 2007. The Gateways club was a noted lesbian nightclub located at 239 King's Road on the corner of Bramerton Street, Chelsea, London, England.
Heaven quickly established itself as the centre of the (then understated) gay London nightlife. Until it opened, most gay clubs were small hidden cellar-bars or pub discos. Heaven brought gay clubbing into the UK mainstream and gave London a club to rival New York's gay super club at the time, The Saint.
Comptons of Soho during London Gay Pride 2010. Comptons of Soho is a gay pub in London. Situated at 51–53 Old Compton Street in the heart of Soho's 'gay village', Comptons has been an integral part of London's gay scene since June 1986.
La Gata, the only lesbian bar in Frankfurt, opened in 1971. According to owner Erika "Ricky" Wild, it "is the world's oldest surviving lesbian bar." [72] London (England) Candy Bar in Soho, opened in 1996 and closed in 2014. Men were allowed if gay and accompanied by women. [73]
In the 18th century, some businesspersons and aristocrats had, for the time, relatively open LGBT lifestyles. Rictor Norton, author of Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England, 1700–1830 stated that in the 1720s London had more gay pubs and clubs than it did in 1950. LGBT studies pre-1920s were entirely of males caught in ...
Two men were stabbed outside a London gay bar Sunday night in what police are investigating as a “homophobic attack.” The victims, one in his 20s and the other in his 30s, were treated at a ...
The Queen Adelaide is an LGBTQ+ pub and nightclub in Hackney, London.The pub has existed since at least 1834. [1] Its current incarnation as an LGBTQ+ venue began in 2015 when the George and Dragon gay pub in Shoreditch closed, and the owners moved many of its furnishings to the Queen Adelaide venue on Hackney Road.