Gay belfast bars
Gay Belfast, Ireland Travel Guide: What a beautiful municipality Belfast is! A urban area that we found very welcoming as gay travellers, it was reassuring to see many other Homosexual couples exploring the town hand in hand.
Full of incredible restaurants, traditional pubs, bars, and thrilling history, we could easily hold spent longer exploring Northern Irelands capital city.
In terms of gay Belfast, it has a lot to offer including some of Irelands most popular same-sex attracted bars and clubs (read on to find out about all the top gay bars and clubs),
But in a whirlwind 48 hours with Tourism Ireland – here are a few of the electrifying things we got up to and would highly recommend.
Is there a male lover area in Belfast?
Yes! There is a gay area in Belfast. This is where you will locate the gay bars in Belfast as well as some gay clubs (and in general is the main Belfast gay scene).
You can find the queer area in Belfast around Union Street sandwiched between Little Donegall St and Donegall St. This is also sometimes known as the gay quarter of Belfast
When did homosexuality turn into legal in Northern Ireland?
We are happy to tell that Northern Ireland has caught up with the rest of the UK in terms of L
Mapping 100 Years Of Belfast Gay Life
According to Roger Casement’s diaries, from 1903 to 1911, the lgbtq+ cruising areas in Belfast were at the Albert Clock (probably also around the Customs House toilet), Botanic Gardens, Ormeau Park, and the Giants Notify . Cottaging went on in Victoria Square in an elegant wrought iron edifice (which was still operating in the 1960s and may be in the Ulster Folk Museum) and at the Gasworks.
From then until after the 2nd World War, the GNR station in Great Victoria Street and DuBarry’s exclude at the docks were recognized haunts, the latter, as in other cities, being shared with prostitutes. The blackout from 1939, and the arrival from 1943-44 of 100,000 American troops in Northern Ireland had a huge impact and special place in gay memories.
The Royal Way (RA) Bar in Rosemary Street (the hotel’s common bar, opposite the Red Barn pub) as portrayed in Maurice Leitch’s pleasant 1965 novel The Liberty Lad (probably the earliest description of a lgbtq+ bar in Irish literature) was the first in the city. It operated from some time in the 1950s being distributed at times with deaf and dumb customers who often occupied the front of the bar. T
Thread: Belfast gay bar
I've been in several gay bars and clubs over the years and in many ways they beat the pants - pardon the utterance - off "regular" bars. The staff are invariably much friendlier and excel at their job, everyone's much more polite, and there's never a queue for the urinals cos they all want to use the cubicles (which is bizarre, since presumably they have to pee sometime). And you can use the Ladies if you like. I even got hit on in one in London, which was oddly flattering since it's never once happened to me in a straight bar. (Well, once, but by a fowl uglier than the male lover bloke. Seriously.)
The whole thing would nearly create you want to proceed over to the other side. However the concept of a big hairy fella standing behind me, telling me he loves me, is still somewhat of a problem for me. Now if guys had boobies, and vaginas, and less hair, and were more curvy, and did my washing, the job'd be OXO.
adam
LGBTQI+ Belfast
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Going Out
Belfast's best gay bars and clubs are located in the city's Same-sex attracted Quarter area, north of the city centre on the edge of the Cathedral Quarter.
Kremlin
The city’s most famous gay club is probably Kremlin on Donegall Street. A Soviet-style industrial opulence exudes throughout the venue’s extravagant decor, with the Tsar Cocktail Lounge, the Long
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