The first gay pub I dared set foot now has a rabow plaque. Here’s why that matters | Gary Nunn | The Guardian

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• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

The Ship and Whale was a very well-known gay pub Rotherhhe, thought to have been built around 1880.

[1]"This pub was the longt ntuoly gay pub London, until was tragilly turned straight the late neti (if my memory serv me right). Acrdg to Dockyard Doris, a nversatn I had wh her – si the Ship and Whale as turns out – she opened as a gay venue back the fifti.