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Contents:

• THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
• REVIVED: THE 1930S LONDON GAY MEMBERS' CLUB RAID BY POLICE
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
• GAY BARS AND CLUBS SOHO

THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON

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A beguilg, alternative London gay bar. The group was found by Ian, who ran the succsful London Gay Men's Dner Club for eight years and the same warmth and wele that that group was known for is now reachg out to all the LGBTQ+ muny.

REVIVED: THE 1930S LONDON GAY MEMBERS' CLUB RAID BY POLICE

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To some, the Caravan Club was a fun place offerg iendship and “all-night gaiety”; to others was “absolutely a sk of iquy … only equented by sexual perverts, lbians and sodom” the police, was a place so dangero that required regular surveillance and a raid, which rulted more than 100, more than 80 years after s enforced closure, the Natnal Tst and the Natnal Archiv have llaborated to recreate the Caravan Club, a lbian and gay iendly members’ club that billed self as “London’s greatt bohemian renzvo said to be the most unnventnal place town” Watson, creative director of the Natnal Tst London, said the project would help provi “a timely remr of the importance of siled cultur to our natnal herage” Caravan Club was one of many mostly temporary venu at a time when beg openly gay was perilo, often rultg prosecutn and sketch plan of the Caravan Club. Police appear to have been statned the Shaftbury Theatre oppose, watchg the gs and gogs om uned was not until Augt 1934 that the raid me, wh placloth officers easily enterg by pretendg to be of the club, one of many mostly temporary venu that existed when beg openly gay was perilo.

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It is one of a number of events beg held across the UK to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offenc Act, the landmark moment which crimalised private homosexual acts between men over 21 England and will be the endpot of walkg tours of Soho featurg long-gone venu, such as Billie’s Club on Ltle Denmark Street and the Shim Sham Club, now an O’Neill’s but the 1930s a gay iendly jazz venue even more shockg bee was equented by black men “dancg wh whe women” Queer Cy project is part of a wir programme tryg to change the perceptn of the Natnal Tst specifilly and herage more wily. It is also part of the tst’s year-long Prejudice and Pri programme unearthg often-secret gay histori om s properti. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.

In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. ” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.

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He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.

” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.

In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. ” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist.

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On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. The area is also known for s ncentratn of bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots – all of which are nsired sful Islam. Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsTrafalgar Square / EmbankmentGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissTrafalgar Square / EmbankmentBars & Clubs • Gay BarsLeicter Square / Shaftbury AvenueLearn more about this ntentTours, activi and experienc bookable on Tripadvisor, ranked g exclive Tripadvisor data cludg reviews, ratgs, photos, populary, er preferenc, price, and bookgs ma through travellers are saygBier than expected but service was fast and iendly.

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The Qut for Gay, Bi & Queer Men. While London’s queer nightclub scene has seen some sad, untimely partur, such as the Coleherne (briefly the Pembroke), London’s olst gay bar until s closure, and the Joer’s Arms, there are still some long-standg venu and new-ers to the scene workg hard to keep London’s queer nightlife alive.