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Contents:

• BLOC SOUTH – VXHALL GAY BAR
• THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
• LONDON GAY PUB THE ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN IS GIVEN GRA II LISTG
• SBN & NBN @ UNIONLONDONMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEHOTELS · BUDGETGUTHO & B&BSHOSTELSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSLBIAN BARSCISE CLUBSSNASGAY SOHOMASSAGETHEATRECABARETSSHOPSGYMSCAF & RTRANTSSERVICATTRACTNSCY GUITOURSGAY MAPUK EVENTSGAY WEDDGSSBN & NBN @ UNION
• THE DOS & DON'TS OF GAY CLUBBG
• INIC VXHALL GAY BAR AWARD ‘MUNY ASSET’ STAT

BLOC SOUTH – VXHALL GAY BAR

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THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON

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. Cooper was well-known as a “molly” or homosexual man.

LONDON GAY PUB THE ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN IS GIVEN GRA II LISTG

Gay dance venue, Crash, hers a new wave of gay clubs to the area.

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.

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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.

THE DOS & DON'TS OF GAY CLUBBG

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. 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.

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. We had no experience of playg to gay crowds, even though we’re gay ourselv, so we were like: “What are the gay people gog to do when they hear Jilted John or Sound and Visn, are we gog to get attacked?

INIC VXHALL GAY BAR AWARD ‘MUNY ASSET’ STAT

I thk the ls rigid mic that you hear on the gay scene now has que a lot to do wh and the fact that people are more open about what you n have on stage, rather than jt a drag queen.