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 … Continue reading HOT, TOS and The Kitchen
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H.A.M. was a long-running gay Friday-nighter at the P.O.D. (The acronyms stood for Homo Action Moves and for House of Dance, respectively). In its initial 1993 incarnation, the P.O.D. was a lovely, if smallish, venue. AFAIK it didn't have any specifically queer nights until sometime around 1996 when H.A.M. started. For a few years, H.A.M. … Continue reading H.A.M.
For about a decade from 1993 I collected flyers for nightclubs. It was a decade which started with decriminalisation of homosexuality and ended with the Celtic Tiger at almost the height of its hubris. Before the internet, events were routinely advertised by distributing printed adverts. Nightclub promoters went around the bars handing out flyers intended … Continue reading Dublin’s club history captured in 1990s flyers
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