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• NEW LGBT SPACE TO REPLACE FORMER SOUTHWARK GAY CLUB XXL BY 2022 AFTER VELOPMENT ROW
• THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
• LONDON’S XXL GAY CLUB SET TO CLOSE TO MAKE WAY FOR LUXURY FLATS
• LONDON GAY NIGHTCLUB XXL FAC CLOSURE TO MAKE WAY FOR FLATS
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
• LONDON GAY CLUB XXL IS BEG FORCED TO CLOSE BY VELOPERS
• THE BT GAY BARS LONDON
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NEW LGBT SPACE TO REPLACE FORMER SOUTHWARK GAY CLUB XXL BY 2022 AFTER VELOPMENT ROW

A new LGBT space will open a Banksi velopment h by a backlash over the closure of the gay club, XXL. The club, terg the gay subculture of ‘bears’, had s last night operatg s Pulse premis Sampson and Ludgate Ho jt off Southwark Street September. Please note, we are mted to keepg XXL open and servg the Bear and wir London Gay muny.

THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON

Gay clubs are an sential part of the LGBTQI muny so I was vastated when I disvered my favoure club, XXL, has been served an evictn notice to close by September 2019. Our gay scene is dyg.

It’s rippg out the soul of what once was one of the most gay-iendly ci the world, and makg beige, sold off to the hight bidr, wh LGBTQI people the biggt sualti of this rporate greed.

A club closure means far more the gay muny than any other club closure. There’s no other club like XXL the world – ’s huge, a place I n be wh my tribe and nnect wh my muny, and one of the few plac I n feel pletely safe and pletely liberated – both om the hetero-normative world, and the sometim perfect-body obssed gay scene. Southwark has the send hight populatn of LGBTQI+ people London – XXL is the only remag gay club there.

LONDON’S XXL GAY CLUB SET TO CLOSE TO MAKE WAY FOR LUXURY FLATS

Suated the heart of the Cy’s Gay Quarter and home to a gleamg club room playg host to renowned DJ’s and a mixture of R&B, cuttg edge, unrground, ntemporary, pop anthems and classic tun.

While the venue at Pulse is no longer available to XXL, ’s fairly clear that we haven’t heard the last of this party brand for the gay men of London. A gui to beg gay – How do you know if you’re a bear?

The big mcl and mascule persona tradnally associated wh bears n often be a way of actg-out agast all of those securi that many gay men have had to grapple wh when growg up or tryg to avoid the bulli at school. One of London’s biggt gay nightclubs is facg closure to make way for a £1. Southwark has the send-hight nsy of gay, lbian and bisexual people of any UK borough, after neighbourg Lambeth.

LONDON GAY NIGHTCLUB XXL FAC CLOSURE TO MAKE WAY FOR FLATS

But gay clubs have been closg rapidly the pal, clg number om 125 2006 to 53 2017, acrdg to rearch by Universy College latt to close was Bloc South Vxhall this month, which opened 2017.

Thirty percent of clubs that closed beme venu that were not specifilly gay, and 21% of closur were bee of property Am, who -found XXL 2000, said: “Yet aga, London is about to lose somethg that is unique to s character: the ia of open arms.

THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON

Photograph: Native LandsDJ Fat Tony, whose real name is Tony Marnach, said: “London n’t afford to lose another big gay venue. The gay scene has been so crippled over the last few years.

We [still] need gay clubs bee the world we live is not gog forwards, is gog backwards. They have qutned whether attus towards homosexualy Malaysia and Sgapore, where two of the ma vtors are based and where gay sex is illegal, may have affected Sgapore, same-sex upl are banned om adoptg children, and Malaysia a lbian uple were ned a sharia urt last year after beg nvicted of havg Land and s vtment partners strongly ny any such motive. They proposed “the first natnal LGBTQ centre to celebrate, archive and support the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer experience”.

LONDON GAY CLUB XXL IS BEG FORCED TO CLOSE BY VELOPERS

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A beguilg, alternative London gay bar.

THE BT GAY BARS LONDON

London gay club XXL is facg closure after plans for a £1.

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The 1, 500 pacy club, which has been open for 19 years, is one of London's olst gay clubbg stutns, and the last gay club the pal's Southwark 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.

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.