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The Gay Village Party is a ticketed event on the final three days of Pride, with a cornucopia of performances on multiple stages supplementing the events happening in the bars. He died in 1954 at age 41.

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Image: Carl Sukonik Manchester is a welcoming and cosmopolitan city with a thriving and vibrant LGBT+ scene and is well known across the world as a gay-friendly destination.

Right in the heart of the Gay Village, these rooms are decorated in vibrant colours. But a stroll down Faulkner Street will reveal many other Asian cuisine options.

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Canal Street, aka the Gay Village, is where most of the action is, and the action here actually does flow out onto the cobblestone street itself. The first Manchester Gay Pub and Club Olympics event took place in 1985, a festival event that eventually morphed into Pride.

Homobloc also partners with charities, including the LGBT Foundation and the Proud Trust. Interesting highlights include the site of the 1880 Manchester Drag Ball and the Church House, where the first meeting of the organisation Campaign for Homosexual Equality was held.

Each point on the tour is marked by a mosaic rainbow flag set into the pavement.

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Manchester Museum (University of Manchester, Oxford Rd., Manchester).

There are rooms facing the front and the back, and, you guessed it, the rooms facing the back are quieter.

Moxy Manchester City (8 Atkinson St., Manchester). Founded in 2016 by two DJs-turned-restaurateurs, this huge space is done in 1920s style with a side order of funky. The Pink Picnic is heavily community-focused, welcoming everyone from families to young groups of friends and everything in between.

Expect lots of fun acts on stage, from RuPaul’s drag queens to singers like Nadine Coyle.

Gay hotels in Manchester

While most hotels in Manchester are friendly and inclusive, these places are chosen specially for LGBTQ visitors because of their excellent qualities.

The tagline to Feel Good Club sums up exactly what they stand for.

Feel Good Club is one of Manchester’s queer-owned cafes in the trendy Northern Quarter. Have a seat next to Turing on the bench and think of what it must have been like back then. It offers the usual classic cocktails as well as a few signature recipes, including the Velvet Passion Berry (featuring raspberry vodka) and the Sweet Tennessee, which blends whisky and Chambord with flavours of lime, vanilla, and blackberries.

The interiors are a pleasing mix of calm, moody walls, warm lighting, and gold accents.

It takes you throughout Manchester, from the bars of Canal Street to the Alan Turing Memorial to the Manchester Art Gallery. This early 20th-century brick building has been home to a cotton warehouse, a brewery and a comedy club in its past lives. How did this industrial city in Northern England come to have such a visible queer population?