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Contents:

• VXHALL GAY SCENE ‘UNR THREAT OM RISG RENTS’ AS NIGHTLIFE SQUEEZED OUT BY BIG CHAS
• THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• TOM HOLLAND 'REACTS' TO 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE
• GAY LONDON · MID-RANGE HOTELS
• THE DOS & DON'TS OF GAY CLUBBG
• LONDON GAY DISTRICT: SOHO

VXHALL GAY SCENE ‘UNR THREAT OM RISG RENTS’ AS NIGHTLIFE SQUEEZED OUT BY BIG CHAS

Vxhall’s gay nightlife scene uld be threatened by soarg bs rents as the area unrgo regeneratn, was claimed today.

It is feared that bars, clubs and f popular wh lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people will be priced Royal Vxhall Tavern, which featured movie Pri, was bought by Atrian veloper Immovate last year, and mpaigners are tryg to protect om moln. An agent’s brochure for Network Rail says Vxhall “ntu to improve and attract substantial vtment” and lettgs to Sasbury’s and Nando’s had “set the tone” do not mentn s gay scene. Areas are beg homogenised and that is a shame.

Or to work out at the Paris Gym, long the only exclively gay sports club London. But if there's not much gog on durg the day, the neighborhood alive at night when all the gay bars and clubs open their doors. In a few years, Vxhall has bee the favore clubbg place for London gays.

THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON

Vxhall is also home to one of the most popular snas the gay muny, Charts.

67 Albert EmbankmentFire One of London's bt gay clubs wh famo DJs and handsome guys.

Long before the so-lled gay village, Vxhall was already steeped LGBT history. Acrdg to David Coke, ‘the first thentic appearance of a gay man at Vxhall was at the very exclive Ridotto al Fr which re-lnched the refurbished Vxhall Garns on June 7, 1732.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

Cooper was well-known as a “molly” or homosexual man. Gay dance venue, Crash, hers a new wave of gay clubs to the area.

Though the number of LGBT+ venu London has seen a cle the last or so, the cy's gay scene isn't ailg yet – fact, a handful of excellent new venu have opened recent years around the cy.

The hight ncentratn of LGBT+ spac n still be found around Old Compton Street Soho, a former red light district that's been heavily gentrified recent years, but remas London's gay heartland. This Soho stalwart tends to attract a slightly olr crowd of gay guys and has a reputatn for beg cisy.

TOM HOLLAND 'REACTS' TO 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE

It’s closed on Mondays and Tudays, but hosts a r Sunday pub quiz and gets pretty packed on Friday and Saturday nights when the small dancefloor fills up wh a largely, though not exclively, gay male crowd. Loted Clapham, a 15-20 mute tube ri om the cy centre, this tradnal gay pub-club is a perennial favoure wh LGBT+ Londoners who love an unpretent party. Keepg the gay flame burng out wt is this tradnal gay pub Ealg, a leafy suburb that’s about 25 mut by tube om central London.

It’s tly the end of an a gay teenage Londoner the mid-90s, the first club I went to was Heaven, which felt somehow pulsory. And, like many other misfs, weirdos and queers, I felt right at this went agast the gra of the 90s gay scene.

Rather than gym culture, dance mic, strippers and pills, Duckie meld the boozy bonhomie of gay die-pop night Popstarz wh the live-art vibe of the ICA, creatg what lled “homosexual honky-tonk”. Ls nsumerist-aspiratnal gay, more sarky art-school queer, the crowd was thoughtful, bolshie and (mostly) kd.

GAY LONDON · MID-RANGE HOTELS

The RVT beme a space of gay socialisg after the war and was central to London’s 60s drag boom. And 2014, after the pub’s sale to ternatnal velopers, helped secure legal protectns safeguardg s future, cludg makg a Gra II listed ’s Summer Tea Party, hosted by Amy Lamé Hull, part of the LGBT 50 celebratns markg the 50th anniversary of the crimalisatn of homosexualy England and Wal. Photograph: Keh Larby/AlamyBeyond the RVT, Duckie creat big immersive parti such as the sbroly ironic Gay Shame, held each year on the night of Pri London.

Ben Walters Duckie’s Saturday nights at the Royal Vxhall Tavern end wh Gay Shame on 2 July. There was a sense of havg a shared aim and beg an alternative to mastream gay culture. I’m performg at Duckie on 18 June and when I was wonrg what to do, I sudnly remembered a character I ed to play – a gay man who talks about sex all the time.

So I will be reprisg has been very fluential the sense of puttg forward what I would ll a queer athetic, as opposed to a gay athetic.

THE DOS & DON'TS OF GAY CLUBBG

Photograph: Am Lennon/The ObserverDuckie was such a clear alternative to the sanised, cynil, money-makg London gay clubs of the 1990s. It’s such a wonrfully queer and creative world and has been pivotal the gay muny.

LONDON GAY DISTRICT: SOHO

We were playg rerds that you didn’t really hear clubs – X-Ray Spex, Kate Bh – whereas everythg on the gay scene back then was hoe or really chey pop.