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• THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
• TOP GAY VENUE ASTORIA TO HOLD ‘LAST EVER PARTY’
• GAY PORN IDOL
• GAY BARS AND CLUBS LONDON - LONDON FOM
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON

THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON

Fridge, Brixton (1981-2010) Boy Gee was a regular at this New Romantics hnt which hosted some of the pal's biggt gay nights. G-A-Y is a gay nightclub central London. The Boston Globe scribed as "London's largt gay-themed club night", [1] NME reported that "attracts 6, 000 clubbers each week", [2] and The Inpennt scribed as "the one London gig that really matters" for "today's pop stars".

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[3] On Friday 3 October 2008, moved to famo gay venue Heaven. (Monday and Saturday) and also Propaganda (Thursday) were n by gay club promoter and DJ Col Peters (Peter Dbeney), whose brother Jamie ntued as promoter for a perd followg his ath. A promotnal mpaign took place the weeks leadg up to release, cludg televisn and rad advertisements, a natnwi poster mpaign and magaze advertisements both the gay and teen prs.

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Has a good reputatn and is faiar to both gay and straight dividuals.

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The Instute holds many archiv and llectns, rangg om London History, Labour and Socialist History, and s LGBTQ+ archiv enpass LGBTQ+ history, polics and culture, wh archiv om Stonewall, Swchboard, GMFA (The Gay Men's Health Chary) and Outrage!, and material relatg to the Terrence Higgs Tst, as well as to Achill Heel and QX magaz. It is also the ctodian of the Lbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA), which clus over 300, 000 prs cuttgs om the straight prs regardg LGBTQ+ history om the 1890s to today, pl the UK Leather and Fetish Archiv. Spac for queer people to e together, love and have sex have always been around, but the first documented spac for queer teractn London, pecially of gay men, are the 18th-century Molly Ho.

Generally functng as taverns, public ho or even private clubs, the plac were a popular way for gay men to meet tim of legal and social persecutn. It me as a given that the plac were often raid, and rerds om the Old Bailey reveal equent stanc of gay men beg blackmailed for money. The Cave of the Goln Calf, which opened 1912, is nsired to be the first gay nightclub.

In the send half of the 20th century, was often the scene of polil bat on femism and gay rights. The varied om clubs such as the Unn Jack Club Waterloo for members and veterans of the Brish Armed Servic, which gaed a reputatn as a refuge where homosexual servicemen uld socialise durg and after World War II; to cisg grounds such as Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, Hampstead Heath and Clapham Common; to drag balls such as those of Jean Frerick’s Porchter Hall; to private hom.

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After the crimalisatn of homosexualy 1967, clubs were now legal, although was often only whe gay men who enjoyed greater acceptance the gog-out scene. Frher our memory, and some s still active today, the big gay clubs of the 1990s are for many people the prime exampl of queer nightlife our cy. It was the first club to have a 24-hour dance licence the UK, and hosted several dance nights, such as the gay club Tra, which was the first legal after-hours club Bra.

Yet Soho hadn’t been ‘gay central’ the late 1970s and early 80s, when Earl’s Court and Wt Brompton were most equented by the queer public.