Yet, as new ventures and activities for LGBT communities pop up each month, often in what are traditionally heteronormative venues, it is becoming clear that there’s more to be enjoyed in gay London than ever before. Beloved LGBT venues such as The Joiners Arms in Shoreditch and the Black Cap in Camden have closed due to soaring rents (both were in prime real estate locations) and stringent changes in local council policies. Also in Hackney, the National Trust property Sutton House is the venue for an immersive, LGBT-friendly cinema event Amy Grimehouse, and just down the road, dingy club Vogue Fabrics hosts both straight and gay club nights throughout the week.Īdmittedly, London’s gay bars have been facing difficult times of late. In the basement of one of Hackney’s trendiest hotels ( Ace Hotel, Shoreditch) is the club night Hard Cock Life – a mostly-male hip-hop night. Hackney, for example, is taking on increasing importance as a new kind of gaybourhood: where LGBT establishments aren’t ghettoised but dispersed among other businesses. London has seen gay clubbing events spread out from the centre over the last decade. View image in fullscreen Born to perform … Amy Grimehouse night at Sutton House.
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