HOT, TOS and The Kitchen

In the explosion of gay clubbing during the 1990s, a few really stand out for me.

HOT, for Honey Organ Tribe, was one of the first gay clubs I went to. AFAIK Tonie Walsh started it up around 1992 in the Rock Garden. I also have a rather lovely flyer advertising a Thursday night in the POD, though I don’t remember going.

One of the longest running gay clubs was The Playground at Temple of Sound (regularly, though unofficially, called TOS) at the Ormond Hotel. Run by Pat Kent, it ran on Sunday and Tuesday nights.

The Kitchen, under the Clarence Hotel, was probably the best-known club venue of the period. It hosted a few gay nights but none seem to last. At least the short-lived Outdance produced this pretty flyer.