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

QX has set together a list of the best London Gay gay 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 frosty bear. London comes into its own in summer and there&#;s space for everyone!

Ku Bar, Leicester Square

The Yard, Soho

A two storey former stables. You&#;d never understand 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 nice old days of Soho, London&#;s former queer hub. Dra

Located first at Fifth Street 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 queer bars were otherwise limited and far between.

Excelsior first opened its doors in at Fifth Avenue 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 land floor. "I used to say it’s an addition of everyone’s’ living room, a chance for people to relax and own conversations and feel safe", said Nayden.

Excelsior offered queer Park Slopers a miniature and intimate place to gather & quickly 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

I went looking for lesbian bars in New York Capital and only set up 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 result showed just three womxn loving womxn bars in my city: Henrietta Hudson and Cubbyhole (both in Manhattan's West Village), and Ginger's Bar (in Park Slope, Brooklyn, which was once a popular neighborhood for lesbians).

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

I learned fast that almost everything I thought I knew about gender non-conforming culture 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 community is widely known. There were an estimated known lesbian bars across the US in the belated s, according to documentary company The Lesbian Bar Proposal. Now, there are around

After walking past Henrietta's and Cub

Long Live the Gay Bar

We almost walk past it, it’s so still and dark. I double back 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 old, also the oldest. On a cool pandemic winter evening, we move 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 stop 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 transmit donations to help offset expenses from its pandemic closure. These feel 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 male lover anywhere has resulted in fewer concrete places in which to be gay in particular. Over the past decade, queer being has, in many ways