ABSTRACT
This chapter firstly conceptualise how belonging in these spaces enabled some to partly realise some of the ordinariness promised by the gay capital of the UK. Indeed, we would argue that the desire to be included and to be 'part of it' was a testament to the importance of the gay scene in being part of the gay city. Recognition of the spatial differentiations of LGBT work and 'naughty' gay playfulness illustrates the separation of LGBT services or communities and scene spaces. In this research gender was a significant axis of difference, which meant that some lesbians felt excluded from both heterosexual cultures and gay scenes what we have termed multiple marginalisations. Whilst drinking spaces within scenes did not constitute the only that LGBT people socialised this chapter has shown the ideological, as well as the material, importance of scene spaces to being a part of gay Brighton.
