Venue: Cruz 101
Town: Manchester, GB

Cruz 101 (better known simply as Cruz) is a nightclub and music venue situated in Manchester's Gay Village near Canal Street, England. It is one of the most popular and longest-running gay clubs in Greater Manchester, often boasting itself as "Manchester's No.1 LGBTQ+ Nightclub and entertainment venue". Before it was turned into a night club, the building now homed by Cruz 101 was a shipping warehouse, which contributed to Manchester's huge textiles industry, making the area the world's largest marketplace for cotton goods. After some time being derelict, a year long renovation process began, after which point the club was ready to open its doors for the first time on 22 May 1992. Cruz shares the building with offices which occupy the floors above and a smaller club to the rear called Satans Hollow. When Cruz first opened, the licensing laws at the time insisted that membership was compulsory and customers had to wait up to 48 hours for membership to be cleared. Encouraged by increased pressure from customers, the club owners started a lengthy legal battle at the high court, resulting in Cruz bring able to allow membership on the door. Whilst initially this legality only entitled Cruz 101 to allow membership on the door, it ultimately set a precedent in allowing other night clubs in the United Kingdom to have follow the same rules. The new flexible membership options available at Cruz proved to be both a benefit and somewhat of a hindrance to the club owners and its regular clientele. Before the court battle, the club found itself restricted by license conditions that other clubs need not meet; however, it was the strict membership policy which made customers feel the club was one of the few true safe gay venues in the area. During the 1990s, the club was owned by Foo Foo Lammar. Today the club remains extremely popular among older and younger party-goers and in 2025 has a far more relaxed door policy than in previous years, reflecting changes in society. It has evo