The police wore rubber gloves (part 2 of 3)

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What a sensational 1987 raid on the RVT reveals about the limits of 1967 reform and the ongoing fight for queer equality. Part two of three.

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Detail from cartoon inspired by the rubber-gloves raid on the RVT © Cath Jackson 1987

The police wore rubber gloves (part 1 of 3)

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What a sensational 1987 raid on the RVT reveals about the limits of 1967 reform and the ongoing fight for queer equality. Part one of three.

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How the Economist got it wrong on queer venue closures

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Blaming dating apps and social change is misleading and dangerous. Time for some myth-busting.

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Amy Lamé photographed by Chris Redgrave at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern for Historic England's I Am London exhibition

Amy Lamé is London’s first Night Czar

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The Duckie co-founder and Royal Vauxhall Tavern campaigner will work with City Hall to shape London as a 24-hour city.

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ACT UP et al, Trafalgar Square, June 28 2016

In dark times, queer spaces are a model for all spaces

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Queer spaces aren’t just about LGBTQ+ safety. They’re a glimpse of a better future for everyone.

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My boyfriend is an immigrant T-shirt

A quick update

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  For me, the past couple of months have been very busy and rewarding in terms of my own work and, as for many people, very challenging and upsetting on a political level. This post is just a quick update regarding the former since, among other things, I use this blog as a tally of what I’ve […]

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Detail from an illustrated map of Vauxhall by Robin Whitmore

What are queer spaces for anyway?

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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?

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The squatters' flag flies outside the Black CAp

Here’s how to reopen the Black Cap

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A win/win approach to the shuttered icon: reopen it as an LGBT+ venue whose profits support its leaseholder’s wider plans

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The Queen Adelaide site at 453 Hackney Road (Image Google)

The George & Dragon is dead. Long live the Queen Adelaide!

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Just weeks after yet another favourite London queer pub closes, its landlord opens an exciting ‘sequel’ just up the road

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#WeAreTheBlackCap protest outside the Black Cap on Camden High St, April 18 2015

Black Cap supporters launch community buy-out bid

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Following the collapse of the planned sale of the Black Cap, devotees of the iconic LGBTQ pub hope to bring it into community ownership

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