Our 4 best LGBTIQ+ Friendly Venues
Generate focusses its work in York and Doncaster and has identified the following LGBTIQ+ friendly venues in both of these locations which you may want to check out. If you are the owner of other LGBTIQ+ friendly venues in either York or Doncaster please drop us a line and we may add you here.
LGBTIQ+ Friendly Venues in York
The Portal Bookshop
York’s LGBTIQ+ specialist bookshop and Café…
When Portal opened in 2019 it was only the third LGBTIQ+ Specialist bookshop in the UK, after Gay’s The Word in London and Category is Books in Glasgow. As well as selling all sorts of LGBTIQ+ books and merchandise, including flags, Portal showcases art, crafts and jewellery from local creators who are part of the queer community.
Visit the-portal-bookshop.square.site for more information and resources.
Over the Rainbow Café
A 2022 addition, Over The Rainbow Café is located upstairs, above Portal, with a downstairs table available for anyone who struggles with steps. Over The Rainbow serves hot and cold drinks, including shakes, and savoury and sweet food options, which include sandwiches, pastries and our legendary flag cakes which are modelled after the different LGBTIQ+ flags!
Although the café is up a flight of stairs, Portal is equipped with a ramp for wheeled access and all efforts will be made to accommodate any other accessibility needs.
The space is also available to hire for events and parties.
Visit our Instagram page for all the latest information.
LGBTIQ+ Friendly Venues in Doncaster
Bone Idle Lounge
Situated on Silver Street – a short walk away from The Corn Exchange & Wool Market, right next door to China Palace. Bone Idle is a cozy little haven away from the hustle and bustle of the centre.
We’re not your usual coffee shop, we’re a lounge bar too and have an effortlessly chill vibe!
Playing an eclectic range of music from; Trip hop, lo-fi jazz, dub reggae, rap & 90s hip hop, grunge, rock, indie, metal, country & blues with added drum & bass, liquid, dubstep (pre skrillex), & worldbeat.
We might be on the “party street”, but we can promise you it feels like another (much more relaxing) world inside.
Visit www.boneidlelounge.com for more details, or better still… come and see for yourself!
The Queen Crafthouse and Kitchen
Known it’s friends simply as “The Queen”, The Queen Crafthouse and Kitchen is the home of rotating cask and keg beers in the heart of Doncaster.
Wednesday is open mic night, Thursdays Quiz, with live music Friday and Saturday. For all the latest information, visit our Facebook page.