A Gui To Gay London for LGBTQ Travelers

Contents:

• LONDON GAY SNAS
• ‘WE KEPT GETTG PEOPLE SAYG: EXCE ME, YOU DON’T LOOK GAY’ – HOW BLACK PEOPLE FOUGHT FOR A SPACE AT PRI

LONDON GAY SNAS

We lnched the digal archive Black and Gay, Back the Day on Instagram at the start of LGBTQ History Month on 1 Febary. This giv our archive the feel of a fay photo album, wh imag that evoke memori, nnect old lovers and te younger Black queers about the spac that have existed the are two Black gay men: Jason is 24 and Marc is 51, so there is a generatnal age gap between .

We met 1990 at Nwangi, a Black gay club night at the Market Tavern pub Vxhall south London, which has sce been molished to make way for the new US embassy buildg. I love this picture as ’s a rare image of Black gay love and timacy – ’s radil simply bee puts Black gay love ont and and Caz, late 1980s.

‘WE KEPT GETTG PEOPLE SAYG: EXCE ME, YOU DON’T LOOK GAY’ – HOW BLACK PEOPLE FOUGHT FOR A SPACE AT PRI

Photograph: Col GrantCol and Caz, late 1980sMarc: This photograph is of siblgs Col and Caz at the Lbian and Gay Centre on Cowcross Street, London, the late 80s. It also acts as a remr of a very important place LGBTQ history, and emphasis the need for spac that are separate om the mercial gay scene. The Lbian and Gay Centre opened 1986 and prid self on meetg the diverse needs of the muny, creatg specific spac for women and Black and Wston Brixton, 1992.

Photograph: Calv DawksDJ Biggy C wh the hoe mic vol tr Jomanda at the Vox, 1993Marc: For many years, Black LGBTQ clubs were predomantly n by whe gay men. On Friday nights, tered to the diverse tast of Black gay people.

From club kids to dancehall queens or homothugs, all were wele. No night was plete whout an appearance by the Glamour Crew – a tight-kn group of fabuloly drsed young Black gay men who drew fluenc om the Harlem ballroom scene. He would have been his early 20s this photograph, around the age that I am now, and shows his early reer as a journalist for gay media.