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Behind the bar with the couple who run the Rembrandt - the pub that brought Pride to Manchester
02.10.2022 - 00:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
They say that as fast things change, they stay the same.
That description could be applied to one Village pub — being a steadfast pillar and meeting place for the LGBTQ+ community for decades — as a whole area of the city centre around it was regenerated, reinvigorated, and rediscovered.
However, to say that The Rembrandt pub has been stationary while the Village has become what it is today around it, would be to completely disregard the enormity of progress within its four walls. The story of the pub — where they say Manchester’s first August bank holiday pride event took place — is something of a parable to how the city, and its LGBTQ+ scene, has evolved.
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“That’s the bring-and-buy sale they had, in 1987,” owner Allan Whyte told the Manchester Evening News . He was referring to one of the many photographs which adorns his pub’s walls — which he has worked in since 1996.
In the photo, people are milling about by some trestle tables, which are full of items for sale. That was a fundraiser for victims of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s, and he says, is the genesis for the behemoth that Manchester Pride is now.
“That would have been when Anderton was the Chief Constable [of Greater Manchester Police], who said we were swirling around in a cesspit of our own making. At the time, The Rembrandt would have been at the centre of all that.
“Traditionally, we were a man’s bar, and all the clientele were young men, so their friends and partners were dropping in to Monsall Infectious Diseases Unit at the time. There wasn’t really any help for them.”
The idea to have the fundraiser came from the
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