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” Ellitt adds that, to mark the big birthday, the club has won permissn to operate as a marriage venue, wh the first ceremony to take place on 15 December, almost exactly 40 years after the openg Heaven’s arrival had an impact, drew on strands of alternative dis culture already threadg through the cy the 12 years sce homosexualy had been crimalised.
Ctomers at tablished gay dancefloors and discreet venu, such as Bang, Napoleons, Sndals and Catabs, had ially moved on to a club on Old Bond Street lled the Embassy, opened 1978 by Jeremy Norman. “Prr to that, gay clubs were only found unrground pub cellars, ” rells Ellitt.
Until then, would have been difficult for people to tell people you had been to a gay club. “When started was still difficult for gay people to be accepted. But Heaven was a place that changed perspectiv and brought the two muni, gay and straight, together, ” says Whyte.