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london gay clubs in the 90s

They survived homophobia and Thatcher. But is gentrifitn now soundg the ath knell for gay clubs and pubs? We meet the artists battlg to save them

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THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON

* london gay clubs in the 90s *

The gay scene London has always been centred around the Wt End, pecially Soho. Vxhall beme the loc of gay clubs om 2000.

1866 The Coleherne, gay om the 1950s?, closed 24 September 2008 (261 Earls Court Road, Earls Court).

1981 Bolts (Lazer, Green Lan, Hargay).

THE ECSTASY SPE THE AGONY: PHOTOGRAPHG GAY CLUBBG ‘90S NORTHERN ENGLAND

1991 Sadie Maisie (London Lbian and Gay Centre, 67–69 Cowcross Street, Farrgdon). TheGayUK has a list of 102 bars and 32 clubs that have closed London sce 2000.

↑ Rictor Norton, Life of Thomas Neav 1729, Homosexualy Eighteenth-Century England. ↑ Jam Kirkup, A Poet Could not but be Gay, page 195.

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