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• LONDON GAY BAR SHUT BY VELOPERS RAIS £100K HUGE TURNAROUND AND WILL NOW OPEN AS MUNY-N PUBCAMPAIGN GROUP, FRIENDS OF THE JOERS ARMS SAYS 'S A 'DREAM E TE'GETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSWHAT'S ONBYRUBY GREGORYLOL DEMOCRACY REPORTER08:45, 6 AUG 2022BOOKMARKTHE JOERS ARMS, PICTURED 2014 (IMAGE: GOOGLE STREET VIEW)SIGN UP FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM OUR DIVERSE MUNI MORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM OUR DIVERSE MUNI INVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• LONDON GAY BARS
• THE BT GAY BARS LONDON
• PROPERTY VELOPER FUNDS POP-UP GAY BAR AS NDN OF PLANNG PERMISSN
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON

LONDON GAY BAR SHUT BY VELOPERS RAIS £100K HUGE TURNAROUND AND WILL NOW OPEN AS MUNY-N PUBCAMPAIGN GROUP, FRIENDS OF THE JOERS ARMS SAYS 'S A 'DREAM E TE'GETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSWHAT'S ONBYRUBY GREGORYLOL DEMOCRACY REPORTER08:45, 6 AUG 2022BOOKMARKTHE JOERS ARMS, PICTURED 2014 (IMAGE: GOOGLE STREET VIEW)SIGN UP FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM OUR DIVERSE MUNI MORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM OUR DIVERSE MUNI INVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

The mols didn’t reprent buildgs of any great distctn, but to members of the dience they were a faiar lp: the Black Cap, the Joers Arms, the Glass Bar, the Lbian and Gay Centre. “Some of the media narrativ were around technology and Gaydar, Grdr, how that’s changed everythg, ” says Campk.

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”The loss have clud fixtur of the London scene: the Coleherne Earl’s Court, which had been gog sce the 1930s; Islgton’s olst gay pub, the Kg Edward IV, and the Black Cap Camn, which closed 2015 after 50 years. Some – like the London Lbian and Gay Centre (LLGC), which closed 1992, and First Out Cafe, swept asi by the Crossrail velopment – functned as muny spac durg the day.

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The LLGC, set up a poultry facily Smhfield by the Greater London Council the early years of the Aids epimic, faced hostily, not least om the people who might have helped to nvert – Campk says simply fdg a non-homophobic nstctn pany was a stggle. Once the centre was su, however, hosted a dis, fe, bookshop and a women-only floor, as well as spac for mpaigng … a diary om the London Lbian and Gay Centre.

Qulan se gay spac changg, but not everywhere. “A lot of our work looks at this shiftg moment between what I would ll ‘gay bars’ and a more queer inty. But even people who have issu wh gay-bar culture have a sentimental attachment to the spac.

”Central London’s gay clubs took on an almost mythil stat for Sahib while he was growg up Ealg. “I ed to tune to ble om the next-door neighbours and I’d stay up till midnight to watch 10 mut of Freeview off the gay channel, which had footage of plac like Heaven and the Fridge. Photograph: Courty the artist and Southard ReidSahib’s Helix IV memorialis yet another kd of space: Charts gay sna, Shoredch, which closed 2016.

PROPERTY VELOPER FUNDS POP-UP GAY BAR AS NDN OF PLANNG PERMISSN

I met people there who didn’t intify as gay or exclively as men.

THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON

But, some ways, I met a more diverse range of people than the gay bars I go to. A beloved East London gay bar that was forced to close 2015 after was bought by property velopers has smashed s ial fundraiser target of £100, 000. Tower Hamlets Council said 2017 velopment plans uld only happen if there was a new pub built that would "rema a lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr-foced venue for a mimum of 12 years".

It’s a sprgtime Saturday night Vxhall, a London “gaybourhood” that’s lost many LGBT spac the last few years: Bar, Paris Gym, Area, and The Hoist. Meanwhile, the area’s skyle has transformed almost beyond regnn, wh tower upon tower of luxury newbuild this Saturday Vxhall is a time for celebratn: ’s the openg of Bloc South, the first gay club this part of town to open for years. Down the road is a packed out Royal Vxhall Tavern, where the group Lbians and Gays Support the Migrants giv a stirrg speech.

It feels like the good old days when Vxhall wore London’s gay crown. Acrdg to one LGBT webse, 151 gay bars and clubs London shut between 2000 and 2016, and Attu magaze edor Cliff Joannou told the Guardian he believ that a third of the pal’s LBGT venu have closed sce the clus key venu such as Madame Jojo’s, the Black Cap, The Joer’s Arms, Bar Soho, Kazbar, the Queen’s Head, Candy Bar, the Oak Bar and Green Carnatn – many sufferg the impact of rent hik and rampant month, much-loved Soho venue Molly Moggs closed whout warng – and the reasons are still unclear. “Jojo’s brought together gay culture and burlque culture wh mastream mic and club nights, ” he said.