Gay life in manchester

Looking for somewhere that can take you from daytime tipples to late-night dancing without a hitch? Via is the same-sex attracted cocktail bar in Manchester for you. Start off your journey with waterside drinks, before heading indoors where regular entertainment and a lively crowd of punters await.

A list of Manchester Gay Village clubs wouldn't be complete without giving On Bar a mention. Not only is it the home of killer performances across bottomless brunches and other boozy happenings from Bougie Drag & Boy Toy Events, but this place sure knows how to throw a party too.

Manchester is a city of transformation. The third-largest city in the UK had humble beginnings as a small Lancastrian town before becoming the first proper industrialized town in the world during the Industrial Revolution. And it's been pretty much uphill from there. The first atom was split in Manchester, the first English canal was manufactured there, and the queer scientist Alan Turing, who deciphered the encryption of German Enigma machines during the Second World War, was born in Manchester.

Now it remains a constantly evolving city and is a hotbed of tradition, music, art, and sport – who hasn’t heard of Manchester United? Most importantly of all, though, Manchester is one of the big three “gay cities” of England – the others being London and Brighton. The mythical Canal Street, part of Manchester’s Gay Village, was the setting for much of the groundbreaking '90s TV show Queer as Folk—the original UK version, that is. The demonstrate helped men across the UK—and possibly the world—come out as they saw themselves in the ch