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• LONDON GAY PUB THE ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN IS GIVEN GRA II LISTG
• BRA'S OLST GAY PUB HAS BEE THE FIRST TO BE GRANTED LISTED STAT
• ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN: FAMO GAY PUB GIVEN LISTED STAT
• 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
• GAY/LGBT VENU IN THE UK

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

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.

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

BRA'S OLST GAY PUB HAS BEE THE FIRST TO BE GRANTED LISTED STAT

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. ”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.

ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN: FAMO GAY PUB GIVEN LISTED STAT

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.

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

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.

After World War II, returng servicemen and lol gay men were attracted to the venue, which held shows of female impersonators, the forenner of drag shows. The public bar attracted lol workers and had a dart board whilst the lounge attracted the lol gay muny.

GAY/LGBT VENU IN THE UK

The RVT survived lol revelopment throughout the 1970s and 1980s and has managed to mata s pennce as a gay venue. In 2005, the Royal Vxhall Tavern was taken over by gay bsmen Pl Oxley and Jam Ldsay.