It may be hard to image, but there was a time when Soho and Vxhall weren't the centre of gay nightlife London. Way back the 1970s and
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LOST GAY LONDON
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Homosexual acts are illegal Malaysia and punishable by f and up to 20 years prison. You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive, ” he said addrsg the dience. The mols didn’t reprent buildgs of any great distctn, but to members of the dience they were a faiar lp: the Black Cap, the Joers Arms, the Glass Bar, the Lbian and Gay Centre.
“Some of the media narrativ were around technology and Gaydar, Grdr, how that’s changed everythg, ” says Campk.
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”The loss have clud fixtur of the London scene: the Coleherne Earl’s Court, which had been gog sce the 1930s; Islgton’s olst gay pub, the Kg Edward IV, and the Black Cap Camn, which closed 2015 after 50 years.
Some – like the London Lbian and Gay Centre (LLGC), which closed 1992, and First Out Cafe, swept asi by the Crossrail velopment – functned as muny spac durg the day. The LLGC, set up a poultry facily Smhfield by the Greater London Council the early years of the Aids epimic, faced hostily, not least om the people who might have helped to nvert – Campk says simply fdg a non-homophobic nstctn pany was a stggle.
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Once the centre was su, however, hosted a dis, fe, bookshop and a women-only floor, as well as spac for mpaigng … a diary om the London Lbian and Gay Centre. Qulan se gay spac changg, but not everywhere. “A lot of our work looks at this shiftg moment between what I would ll ‘gay bars’ and a more queer inty.
But even people who have issu wh gay-bar culture have a sentimental attachment to the spac. ”Central London’s gay clubs took on an almost mythil stat for Sahib while he was growg up Ealg.
“I ed to tune to ble om the next-door neighbours and I’d stay up till midnight to watch 10 mut of Freeview off the gay channel, which had footage of plac like Heaven and the Fridge. Photograph: Courty the artist and Southard ReidSahib’s Helix IV memorialis yet another kd of space: Charts gay sna, Shoredch, which closed 2016.