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• SUNSET CEMAS & RABOW GAY CEMA
• TOP 10 BT GAY CEMA NEAR LONDON, LONDON
• 'I'M A GAY FIREFIGHTER LONDON AND I DON'T HI WHO I AM JT BEE 'S A STEREOTYPILLY MASCULE JOB'JAM RODGERS SPLS HIS TIME BETWEEN THE LONDON FIRE BRIGA AND EAST LONDON'S LGBT+ NIGHTLIFE SCENEGETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYMATT SPIVEYCONTENT EDOR11:49, 14 FEB 2022UPDATED14:37, 16 FEB 2022BOOKMARKJAM' LIFE OUTSI OF THE FIRE BRIGA EXISTS WH PRIMARILY QUEER SPAC (IMAGE: JAM RODGERS)SIGN UP FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM OUR DIVERSE MUNI MORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM OUR DIVERSE MUNI INVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• CEMA LISTGS FOR GAY FILMS LONDON AND THE UK
• 'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA
• FIREBIRD – THE HIGHT-RATED GAY MOVIE OF 2021

SUNSET CEMAS & RABOW GAY CEMA

The Metropolan Police would later nfirm that the ‘gay’ pornography cema was liberately targeted after they lnched a murr vtigatn to the fire related aths which broke out the private club jt before 6pm on a Saturday eveng. ‘Dream Cy’ showed straight and gay sex films and occupied the send and third floors St John Street. The Dream Cy Cema Club was an adult cema screeng gay & straight porn films separately s 2-screens, which were loted on the send and third floors of the buildg (a fe was loted on the ground floor).

Sunset Cemas & Rabow Gay Cema. In recent years sce the emergence of Soho as London’s ‘Gay Village’ the basement was nverted to the Rabow Gay Cema, the two origal screens ntued to operate as the Sunset Cemas screeng ‘straight’ adult films. Downstairs the basement is the cema showg str8 movi (ually the kd of Amerin bbish weighed down wh a 'plot' rather than actn) and upstairs is a gay cema, showg gray, maly poor-qualy rather tame efforts.

Most of the gay dience prefers the str8 cema downstairs (I leave you to work out what the attractn might be! The staff are not welg and not particularly iendly - pecially towards the gay cema upstairs. The prenceptns of the environment wh a fire statn n often be perceived to be a hyper-mascule space, but this is now an outdated mentaly, acrdg to an openly gay firefighter.

TOP 10 BT GAY CEMA NEAR LONDON, LONDON

Jam Rodgers, a recent addn to the London Fire Briga (LFB) spoke to MyLondon about his experience as a gay firefighter whose life outsi of the fire service exists primarily wh queer spac. He has been the job for a year and a half and his time at the statn he has joed their LGBT+ work, but admted that is often hard to meet other gay male firefighters person. He said: "I have been the service for jt over a year and a half now and I've met one other openly gay male firefighter and whilst I know about others but actually meetg them is very few and far between, but is nice to have the muny work to be able to munite wh them.

He said: "There's not many openly gay male firefighters but was nice knowg that we had a group already set up that I uld get volved straight away. Jam has met jt one other openly gay firefighter his time workg for LFB.

Matt is a traee reporter specialisg LGBT+ issu, cludg speakg to LGBTQ+ activist Peter Tatchell ahead of the 50th anniversary of Gay Pri the UK, an terview wh an ex-Litenant Commanr who was forced to keep his sexualy a secret the Armed Forc for 20 years who lost his partner to AIDS two days before he left the Navy, and speakg to the founr of The Gay Men's Dance Company, which offers pole dancg class, among others. Home Cema Listgs for gay Films London and the UK. London Cemas Showg Cema Listgs for gay Films London and the UK.

'I'M A GAY FIREFIGHTER LONDON AND I DON'T HI WHO I AM JT BEE 'S A STEREOTYPILLY MASCULE JOB'JAM RODGERS SPLS HIS TIME BETWEEN THE LONDON FIRE BRIGA AND EAST LONDON'S LGBT+ NIGHTLIFE SCENEGETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYMATT SPIVEYCONTENT EDOR11:49, 14 FEB 2022UPDATED14:37, 16 FEB 2022BOOKMARKJAM' LIFE OUTSI OF THE FIRE BRIGA EXISTS WH PRIMARILY QUEER SPAC (IMAGE: JAM RODGERS)SIGN UP FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM OUR DIVERSE MUNI MORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM OUR DIVERSE MUNI INVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

UK and Irish Cemas Showg Cema Listgs for gay Films London and the UK. Bloc South – Vxhall Gay Bar.

Okay, there are jt a few dited LGBTQ+ performance venu the cy, cludg gay theatre hubs Above the Stag, Royal Vxhall Tavern and the Kg's Head. Expect everythg om genre-smashg queer baret to lbian romance to gay theatre classics to exploratns of trans experience.

CEMA LISTGS FOR GAY FILMS LONDON AND THE UK

The Sla also built up a loyal fanbase for other gay trs such as Andy Warhol, Pasoli, Fassbr and Derek Jarman, who loved to watch the dience watchg his films at the Sla and uld often be seen at the All-Night gay movie marathons.

On other ocsns, Trash featured a gay versn of Bld Date hosted by (the now Reverend) Richard Col, and Boy Gee sang onstage ("what a drama diva she was!

'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA

The Sla was jt a few steps away om The Bell, one of London's most popular and fluential mixed lbian and gay venu.

The handheld phantasmagoria of The Last of EnglandG Van Sant, director of My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Huntg, To Die For, MilkDerek Jarman’s The Last of England is an amazg barrage of memori, obssns, taclysmic visns, where Derek plays a gay memoirist wrg his thoughts down.

FIREBIRD – THE HIGHT-RATED GAY MOVIE OF 2021

An amazg soundtrack by the geni Simon ’n’roll blar, as England falls, a fairy danc, betiful soldiers drk vodka and have gay sex. Halfway through the film, on a hot summer night, the two teenage boys sneak off to a gay pub for the first time their liv. Omar and Johnny’s hedonistic, forbidn soapy sex the lnrette was a slap the face to Conservativ g the Aids epimic to further monise gay people.

Here was another woman – like me – gleefully takg ntrol of her own passn VictimTerence Davi, director of Distant Voic, Still Liv, The Long Day Clos, The Hoe of Mirth, A Quiet PassnIn Victim, Dirk Bogar plays a closet homosexual barrister who risks both his reer and marriage to break a blackmailg gang when his young iend kills himself rather than implite is a small scene towards the end of the film when Bogar lls for his clerk to jo him. Idaho was clearly the film for s release, Gay Tim ran a ver featurg an embrace between the two leads.

But, for the generatn of young gay men watchg the early 90s, somethg more explosive than a kiss – or even full-on sex – had already happened. Sadly, Llie Chng took his own life 2003 after homophobic bullyg the prs.