Screw your consumer preference. It’s not about whether you like pistachio. It’s about whether you want to live in a world without ice cream.
Review: Queer Spaces: London, 1980s – Today at Whitechapel Gallery
A free exhibition powerfully combines archives, art, activism and academia to show the capacious complexities of queer living in the material world.
More than half of London LGBTQ+ venues closed since 2006
A new UCL Urban Lab report, highlighting harm to the community and paths to change, wins Mayor Sadiq Khan’s support.
What are queer spaces for anyway?
The things LGBTQ people need from our public spaces has changed. But is it even possible for new models to emerge in London in 2016?
Here’s how to reopen the Black Cap
A win/win approach to the shuttered icon: reopen it as an LGBT+ venue whose profits support its leaseholder’s wider plans
The George & Dragon is dead. Long live the Queen Adelaide!
Just weeks after yet another favourite London queer pub closes, its landlord opens an exciting ‘sequel’ just up the road
As the George & Dragon closes, the BFI revives the queer past
Do you care about queer culture and identity? Thoughts on the closure of yet another venue and a night of incredible archive footage
Wayne Shires tells all about his new venue Bloc Bar
Hallelujah! A new queer space opens in London! Its owner tells us the nitty-gritty, and why he’s optimistic about the city’s LGBT scene
#WeAreTheBlackCap recap – the campaign hits the ground running
From online mobilisation to plans for direct action, links with outside groups to finding a possible new temporary home, it’s been a fruitful first week for #WeAreTheBlackCap
What next? 9 ways forward for the Black Cap campaign
Nine ways to take yesterday’s protest to mark the shock closure of the iconic LGBTQ venue to the next level
