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LGBTQI+ bar terraces, beer gardens and other outside spaces in London

QX has set together a list of the finest London LGBTQ+ same-sex attracted bars with outside spaces, terraces and bear gardens. With the days ahead looking to be right scorchers they are perfect for sipping cocktails or pints of frigid bear. London comes into its control in summer and there&#;s space for everyone!

Ku Bar, Leicester Square

The Yard, Soho

A two storey former stables. You&#;d never realize that you were in the heart of Soho.

57 Rupert St, London W1D 7PL, United Kingdom.

Soho Square

An oldie but a goodie! At the height of summer, Soho Square harkens back to the good elderly days of Soho, London&#;s former gay hub. Dra

Long Live the Gay Bar

We almost walk past it, it’s so still and dark. I double assist and point the building out to my younger friend: it’s Henrietta Hudson, one of the last remaining lesbian bars in New York City, and, at 30 years aged, also the oldest. On a cold pandemic winter evening, we go out to walk and speak, and our hangout begins to feel like a walking tour of Before. “Here’s Julius’ … There’s the Center, past the AIDS Memorial Park. Down that way is Cubbyhole.” At Henrietta’s we halt and read flyers pasted to the windows and doors. Beneath an image of Rosie the Riveter are updates I’ve been following online about the bar’s uncertain future and information on where to send donations to support offset expenses from its pandemic closure. These experience like signs of the end of an era, but what that means—particularly amid so many concurrent crises—I can’t quite tell.

It’s a signature paradox of our current moment that theoretically being able to be gay anywhere has resulted in fewer concrete places in which to be gay in particular. Over the past decade, queer life has, in many ways

I went looking for queer woman bars in New York City and only create 3. That needs to change.

New York City is widely regarded as a hub for the LGBTQ community.

That's why I was so confused when, after coming out in , my Google search product showed just three woman loving woman bars in my city: Henrietta Hudson and Cubbyhole (both in Manhattan's West Village), and Ginger's Exclude (in Park Slope, Brooklyn, which was once a popular neighborhood for lesbians).

I was dumbfounded — how could this be accurate when entire neighborhoods hold on the identity of "gayborhoods" and rainbow flags hang in windows year-round?

I learned quickly that almost everything I thought I knew about queer identity was actually just what I knew about cisgender male gay culture.

This discrepancy in nightlife and the disheartening lack of permanent-fixture spaces for other members of the queer collective is widely known. There were an estimated acknowledged lesbian bars across the US in the slow s, according to documentary company The Lesbian Lock Project. Now, there are around

After walking past Henrietta's and Cub

Located first at Fifth Avenue and then at Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, Excelsior was one of the longest running gay bars to exist in Park Slope, operating as a community watering hole for over twenty years in a neighborhood where lgbtq+ bars were otherwise few and far between.

Excelsior first opened its doors in at Fifth Way between Sixth & Seventh Streets in Park Slope. It was owned and operated by Richard Kennedy & Mark Nayden, who in '99, had moved into the building shortly after their landlord bought it and soon thereafter opened Excelsior on the ground floor. "I used to say it’s an extension of everyone’s’ living room, a chance for people to relax and have conversations and feel safe", said Nayden.

Excelsior offered gay Park Slopers a small and intimate place to gather & fast became a local favorite hangout. “This sounds cliche, but we compare it a lot to ‘Cheers,’” said Chris Christman, who happened to be there on Excelsior's opening day. “It’s a neighborhood bar that happens to be a gay bar.” In his review, Paul L. perhaps summed up the