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The Royal Vxhall Tavern London has been ma a listed buildg followg a mpaign by Sir Ian McKellen and Pl O'Grady, a move protectg the UKs olst gay pub om revelopment.

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

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The Royal Vxhall Tavern has long been cherished by London's lbian, gay and queer muni. The Royal Vxhall Tavern’s reputatn as a gay venue was tablished by the time of the Send World War, when began to host drag shows (30), a tradn that ntu to this day.

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Over eight years, O’Grady performed four nights a week the character, durg the height of the Brish police’s nstant homophobia-fuelled raids of gay venu.

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By the 1970s, drag acts and gay men mixed wh lol workers, makg the tavern a progrsive, clive space which ntu to this day.

One of the UK’s olst and bt known gay venu, the Royal Vxhall Tavern (RVT) south London, has been signated a listed buildg after a mpaign whose supporters clud Sir Ian McKellen, Pl O’Grady and Graham herage mister, Tracey Crouch, on Wednday announced the buildg would be given a Gra II listg. She said she was thrilled, addg: “The inic cultural hub the heart of London is of huge signifince to the LGBT [lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr] muny.

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”Royal Vxhall Tavern: London’s olst gay pub unr threat GuardianThe pub, standg on the historic se of the Vxhall Pleasure Garns Lambeth, is the first UK listg of a LGBT has a long tradn of hostg alternative baret and drag acts. ”The mpaign had an extra dimensn that so many well-known gay venu London have closed recent years, cludg Madame Jojo’s and the Candy Bar, both Soho, the Black Cap Camn, and the Joers Arms and the Gee & Dragon on Hackney Road, east London.

Concerns were raised over the RVT’s future after was sold last year to an Atrian property listg follows a siar signatn to the birthplace of the morn gay rights movement, the Stonewall Inn New York.

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Campaigners are celebratg after Bra's olst gay venue has bee the first the untry to be given Gra II-listed stat for s ntributn to LGBT history.

As HIV/AIDS startg killg gay men their thoands om the mid-1980s, ctomers would go to the bar together after funerals for their iends. "A lot of the funerals I went to back then were very fay orientated, and the gays would leave and have a separate gatherg at the Vxhall Tavern. The Royal Vxhall TavernThe Royal Vxhall Tavern (RVT) is a long-standg gay pub and nightclub Vxhall, South London.

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Incredible story of one of London's olst gay bars: raids by police bber glov, ston thrown at punters and Pl O'Grady's early Lily Savage shows - MyLondon .

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