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In 1980, London Weekend Television ran a weekly documentary series titled Gay Life, [5] in which Heaven nightclub and various other London gay clubs and bars were featured. In 1982, Heaven was acquired from Norman by Richard Branson's Virgin Group.
G-A-Y is a long-running gay nightclub brand, based at the Heaven nightclub in Charing Cross, London, owned by Jeremy Joseph. G-A-Y also operates a sister gay bar on Soho's Old Compton Street, and previously operated another club at Goslett Yard, called G-A-Y Late. The G-A-Y brand is also used by a bar in Manchester's Gay Village as a franchisee.
Trade originated as an underground club night beneath Turnmills pub in Clerkenwell Road. Trade was the second nightclub Laurence had run at Turnmills; his first was Xanadu, which he co-hosted with the club promoter Robert Pereno. Laurence was a member of the electronic music duo Big Bang when he opened Trade.
XXL was a gay nightclub in London and Birmingham which catered to the bear sub-group. [1] [2] [3] The club was founded by Mark Ames and his then partner David Dindol in 2000. They separated in 2005, after which Mark purchased his ex-partner's share of the club. It was the largest dedicated "bear" venue in the United Kingdom and the world ...
The Backstreet was a gay leather bar on the Mile End Road in London's East End.It was London's longest running, and last remaining leather bar, having opened in April 1985. [1] [2] In 2019, it was saved from redevelopment by Tower Hamlets Council, which stated that the redevelopment would "harm the long-term provision of a nightclub that serves the LGBT+ community".
The door of the Gateways Club (then painted blue), taken March 2007. The Gateways club was a noted lesbian nightclub located at 239 King's Road on the corner of Bramerton Street, Chelsea, London, England. It was the longest-surviving such club in the world, open by 1931 [1] and legally becoming a members club in 1936. In 1967 it became for ...
The first gay bar in Britain in the modern sense was The Cave of the Golden Calf, established as a night club in London. It opened in an underground location at 9 Heddon Street, just off Regent Street, in 1912 and became a haunt for the wealthy, aristocratic and bohemian. [45]
Club Government: How the Early Victorian World was Ruled from London Clubs. London: I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-78453-818-7. Thévoz, Seth Alexander (2022). Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs. London: Robinson/Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1-47214-646-5. Timbs, John (1866). Clubs and Club Life in London ...