Gay bars in cambridge uk
Remembering 14 queer pubs Cambridge has loved and lost
Over the years Cambridge has been home to a number of LGBTQ+ amiable bars and pubs, which many residents will contain fond memories of.
In the 80s and 90s, regular haunts for the Diverse community included staples favor The Anchor and Turk's Head.
But sadly, like many Cambridge venues, they possess vanished over time.
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The city still holds several monthly gay nights including Glitterbomb at Vinyl, and the Dot Cotton Club, though it's without a home, still puts on events.
We asked you to share your memories from Cambridge's queer pubs that we have loved and lost.
Inundated with pictures and anecdotes from years gone by we decided to put them into a nostalgic list for you to enjoy.
Janie Buchanan, a long-term member of lesbian group Sisters Operate commented: "The pubs were essential because of the town and gown divide.
"All the colleges had their queer societies and reading groups and we had no access to those. The pub
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Cambridge may be notable for its university and impressive historical buildings. However, she is also a well-known gay tourist destination for existence welcoming and abode to many gay attractions.
Not only does she contain several gay bars, but she also plays host to several gay events each year, including the Pride Festival and the Pink Festival. With this lively queer society, you can predict your visit to Cambridge to be filled with a blend of history, culture, and inclusivity.
Cambridge isn’t just a queer-friendly university city; it is an old English relic with over two thousand years of history. Located along the River Cam and just a short train drive from London, this little beauty has a population of ,, including many famous names that have lived and worked in Cambridge over the centuries.
You can block by Cambridge to check out the oldest university in the world, foun
LGBT+ Sports Club Finder
That’s club as in nightclub, not football club. You don’t need to be ‘a member’, wear a unique kit or have any particular skill for bowling. So there are no pre-requisites for attendance.
We were founded in by newlyweds Marc & Luke — who had just moved to Manchester, and had no idea how to make friends in a new city. They invited the few people they knew to come bowling one Wednesday, and extended the invite to friends-of-friends. The rest, as they tell, is history.
In the years since, we’ve expanded our presence to cities across the UK, helped forge hundreds of new friendships, and proudly represented the UK at international LGBTQ+ ten-pin tournaments across Europe.
It turns out, gender non-conforming people everywhere need a way of making new friends.
If you’re one of them, we’d treasure to meet you sometime.
Love and pins,
Team GCB x
P.S. Don’t enable the name fool you - everyone from across the rainbow is welcome, not just queer men. It was just too good a wordplay to resist.
How Cambridge’s queer music scene finally came out
Coming to Cambridge from England’s male lover capital (Manchester, obviously), I feared my beloved homosexual music would be clueless among ‘Gold Dust’, ‘Titanium’, and whatever other s track Rumboogie has on replay. My first nighttime out proved me incorrect. While Lola’s drip-fed me Dua Lipa once in a blue moon, Glitterbomb overflowed with gay classics. It offered a territory to soak in Britney and Beyoncé without having to tone down my singalong. Yet in my three years, Cambridge’s gender non-conforming scene has come a long way, now offering far more than cheesy 00s pop.
At that point, Glitterbomb was Cambridge’s only frequent queer event, but allegations of racist staff meant many students needed a new home for their queer anthems. This was the origin story of The Queer Get Down. Hosted at Mash, QGD was founded “to build a safer space … for queer people of colour by queer people of colour”. These were the words of QGD’s organisers, who told me how important music is for queer identities. “It’s about feeling comfortable in your own skin. Gender non-conforming artists have made musi