Is just being fabulous enough? A passerby looks at a sign at #WeAreTheBlackCap protest outside the Black Cap on Camden High St, April 18 2015 (Image by paulgrace-eventphotos.co.uk)

What next? 9 ways forward for the Black Cap campaign

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Nine ways to take yesterday’s protest to mark the shock closure of the iconic LGBTQ venue to the next level

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The Black Cap (Image: Wikipedia Commons)

EXCLUSIVE: Black Cap regains protective community-asset status

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conic LGBT pub and cabaret venue the Black Cap has had its status as an asset of community value restored by Camden council, giving some protection against redevelopment

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Plans for redevelopment of the Black Cap have been rejected by Camden Council

Black Cap saved from redevelopment… for now

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Camden Council has rejected a scheme to turn the first-floor bar and terrace of iconic LGBT pub and cabaret venue the Black Cap into flats

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Plans for redevelopment of the Black Cap in Camden

Now it’s the Black Cap’s turn to face redevelopment

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Camden Council plans to approve a scheme to turn the upper floors of the iconic Black Cap into flats. But will noise levels be too high for new occupants?

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The upper frontage of the Royal Vauxhall Tavern

‘Five years to save the RVT’

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  The next five years will be crucial to the long-term fate of the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, the iconic south London pub and LGBTQ cabaret venue that is being sold to unidentified new owners. “I’ve got five years to get RVT turned around and made into a viable business, but for that to happen we […]

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‘What better role model to put out on the streets?’ Street artist Pegasus brings Tom Daley to the RVT

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 Not that we needed one, but there’s a whole new reason to love the Royal Vauxhall Tavern: a life-size street-art stencil of Britain’s fave Olympic medalist/smiley twink/Speedo-model/same-sex-love poster boy, Tom Daley, brandishing a groin-level declaration that ‘All We Need Is Love’, complete with rainbow-hued love-heart. Created on Friday (January 17, 2014) by street artist Pegasus, the […]

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