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A FOND FAREWELL TO TRA, LONDON’S FIRST AFTER-HOURS GAY CLUB
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> Gay Uned Kgdom > Gay London Kky Tra30 April 2023 - 1 May 202318:00:00 - 05:00:00London, Uned KgdomLondon's favore gay party is back; on April 30th 2023, Tra is partnerg wh Ren to host Kky Tra - an event for kky guys, fetish-lovers, and open-md partygoers. Takg place at EGG London, the event promis to be a standout night 2023's fetish Hotel For This Event Featured HotelsReportComments / Reviews are the subjective opn of Travel Gay ers, not of Travel Gay. Mastermd by Lrence Malice, was billed as a gay club but attracted a diverse crowd and, thanks to s DJs like Tony De V, beme famo for phg the breakneck hard hoe sound (“he took techno and basilly mped up a b, ” says Malice) the time, most clubs end at 2 or 3am and after-hours parti were illic, even dangero.
The Aids epimic had also epted and Malice wanted to create a safe environment for gay men – wh a pumpg soundtrack. “It was a ridiculoly homophobic time, ” says Malice.
“I wanted straight people to show that gay people are not a problem – that we n mix. ”Tra was billed as a gay club but attracted a diverse crowd and beme famo for s hard hoe sound.
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” An article first prted 1994 Gay Tim, now republished on digal dance mic anthology DJ History, perhaps sums up Tra’s signifince bt: “Here there’s a real sense of belongg, of muny, ” says s wrer Richard Smh. Real-life celebri would often try to jo , too: the Beckhams, Alexanr McQueen and Björk are jt some of the name-drops, though Cher and Axl Rose were turned away for beg mandg, or the se of Rose, homophobic. The 2000s had brought wh later licenc and, as club end tim shifted to 5 or 6am, a new wave of parti spng up to help punters bounce om dancefloor to dancefloor, many of them ls gay-centric but still wh a smopolan, mixed crowd.
It’s upled wh a memorative exhibn, lled Often Copied, Never Equalled, assembled by one of the dited “Tra babi” at the Islgton Mm om Friday and which will feature flyers, the late Tony De V’s rerd box and other assorted ’s mise spotlights not jt how after-hours events have gone the way of the dosrs but also how gay nightlife on the whole has changed. “I thk everyone’s sectned themselv off a ltle b, pecially on the gay scene: you get ‘this is the twk night’, ‘this is the hipster night’, and ’s a shame bee mixed/gay crowds aren’t really gettg together like they were.