The venue that first brought London’s gay culture to the mastream is still gog strong today after four s of glamour, glz and perspiratn
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“Heaven’s biggt headache uld be terrg London’s non-gay disphil who uld end up tryg to pass for gay to get past the elegant bouncers at the dis’s equivalent of the Pearly Gat, ” he not born 1979 may know the club’s fabled history as the early home of hoe mic and have seen featured vios and documentari. But back then, for members of London’s burgeong gay scene, the arrival of Heaven was the moment when a rich hidn culture beme part of mastream nightlife. ” 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.
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“Prr to that, gay clubs were only found unrground pub cellars, ” rells Ellitt.
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“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. In 1981, The News of the World nmned the place as “more like hell”, and eight years later the Sun me down hard on dg Carey at GAY 2003.