Affinity Bar
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A bar on St James's Street in Kemptown, Brighton's main strip for gay venues, drawing a relaxed mix of locals and visitors.
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Brighton has been gay Britain's spiritual home for long enough that the scene here feels less like a destination and more like an inheritance. The lanes around St James's Street contain one of the country's densest concentrations of gay bars, clubs and community spaces, but what defines Brighton is less its infrastructure than its atmosphere: unhurried, slightly irreverent, comfortable in its own skin. Pride in August is enormous by UK standards, drawing several hundred thousand people to a city that already behaves, year-round, as though it never quite left the party. Brighton & Hove Pride is held every year in August.
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