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Contents:
- TWO AD, 81 JURED AS NAIL BOMB BLASTS GAY PUB SOHO
- THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
- IN LATT ATLANTA BOMBG, 5 ARE INJURED AT A GAY BAR
- LONDON MORI FEAR AS TWO DIE GAY BAR BOMBG
- JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
- NEO-NAZI PLOT AIMED AT GAY BAR, FBI SAYS -- WHE SUPREMACISTS HELD IN ALLEGED BOMBG PLAN
TWO AD, 81 JURED AS NAIL BOMB BLASTS GAY PUB SOHO
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For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsTWO PEOPLE were killed and81 jured, 13 of them serly, when a bomb explod last night a crowd gay bar Soho, central London.
THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
Two people were killed and more than 70 people jured this eveng when a nail bomb explod a gay pub central London. * bomb gay pub *
37pm whout warng, vastated the Admiral Dunn pub Old Compton Street, the pal's gay centre.
Ten mut before the blast police had rdoned off a phone box nearby Shaftbury Avenue, although was not knownwhether this was lked to the explosn shocked the gay muny and ethnic mori, g ls than a week after last Saturday's blast Brick Lane London's East End and the prev week's nail-bomb attack on Brixton market, which jured 39. " The Commissner said that recent days, anticipatg a possible explosn the strongly gay area of Soho, crime preventn officers had vised a number of pubs and bars to offer advice on secury.
IN LATT ATLANTA BOMBG, 5 ARE INJURED AT A GAY BAR
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen jt me out as gay. * bomb gay pub *
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"Peter Tatchell, spokman for the gay rights group OutRage!, said: "A lot of gay people saw the Old Compton Street area as a safe felt able to relax and hold hands whout fear of attack. Frankly, I’d have served a prison jt for him to hold my hand, like he did his off-whe Vxhall Nova on the drive there, breakg only to change, he took me for strawberry cir the Gloucter, a pub at the park’s edge, takg my tremblg hand his and reassurg me: “It’s actually a gay bar. Gay pubs are far more than bars; they’re refug.
LONDON MORI FEAR AS TWO DIE GAY BAR BOMBG
On Sunday, the first a new seri of rabow plaqu will be stalled at the Gloucter – now the Greenwich Tavern – cementg s place gay home the workg-class Medway area of Kent, where we met when he sold me a phone cred rd at the lol petrol statn, “queers” like were wily perceived as predatory, perverted, spic or simply scum. ”After the strawberry cir, served by a man a tight whe vt – the only other gay man I’d seen real life – the squiggly summer sunlight ma a strobe effect through the park’s tre. The first time I saw wh him, when I was 18, I realised he had echoed the love story of the two protagonists, who also had their first kiss the twilight of Greenwich Park’s tre, and their first experience of a gay pub at the Gloucter.
JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
The explanatn for his obssn is now clear: there was such a pcy of same-sex love stori that this was the first time many young people had seen a same-sex kiss, or peeked si an actual gay bar after dark. The project remds people “that we have always been here, good tim and bad, ” David Robson of the London LGBT+ Foms’ Network said when the plaqu were film and my own story were workg-class gay love: not dandyish and sheltered by the polse of privilege, but the btal realy of beg perceived a non-mascule boy. It was a powerful and rarely told tersectn – and one that, even more rarely, ends rather happily, wh a betiful scene of fiance and acceptance played to a Mama Cass waltz on the sk I disvered that I wasn’t the only wi-eyed baby gay my boyiend had been chasg through those ancient chtnuts that summer.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
For me, the plaque honours that private moment as well as the shared history of the LGBTQ+ ’s the msage I’d impart to anyone who thks such symbols are meangls, as the unique social history of the UK’s gay bars is endangered by gentrifitn, hook-up apps, the st of livg crisis and even assiatn. Like many workg-class, closeted gay boys, I’d hi unr the glovebox of my boyiend’s Nova when we drove back om the park, lt anyone saw.
NEO-NAZI PLOT AIMED AT GAY BAR, FBI SAYS -- WHE SUPREMACISTS HELD IN ALLEGED BOMBG PLAN
It whispered to ckney-accented gay boys like me: there are others like you.