All ages are emphatically welcomed, but younger guys are for once in the minority and generally come on the hunt for a sugar daddy or silver fox - the Marble Arch backstreet location means that this isn't somewhere one stumbles on by chance. Joyfully however, at City of Quebec in Marble Arch - London's oldest gay bar, established 1946 - the tables are turned and the more mature gay gentlemen is, and always has been, the target punter.
Youth is often prized above other qualities - no-one loves a fairy when he's forty, or so the adage goes - and older chaps can feel, if not entirely unwelcome, then certainly out of place in many bars and clubs. One of the commonest, and sadly truest criticisms of the gay scene is that ageism is rife.
