The Showplace (Westbourne Grove, Bayswter) Princess of Prussia (15 Prescot Street, Tower Bridge)Ĭlub Louise aka Louise's (61 Poland Street, Soho) The Masquerade (Earls Court Road, Earls Court) The London Apprentice aka The LA (333 Old Street, Shoreditch) The Dog and Trumpet (Great Marlborough Street, Soho) The Waterman's Arms (1 Glenaffric Avenue, Greenwich)ġ962 The Black Cap, closed 12 April 2015 (171 Camden High Street, Camden Town)ġ962 Gigolo, closed 1970s? (328 King's Road, Chelsea)(coffee shop)ġ962 The Witches Brew, closed 1963 (Queensway)ġ966 King Edward VI, closed 2011 (25 Bromfield Street, Islington)ġ986 Madame JoJo's, closed late November 2014 (8–10 Brewer Street, Soho)Įl Sombrero including Yours or Mine, date TBC (142–144 Kensington High Street) The Robin Hood (Inverness Terrace, Bayswater)
The Champion (opening TBC), until 2004 (1 Wellington Terrace, Notting Hill) The Catacombs, closed early 1980s (Finborough Road, Earls Court) The Boltons, closed early 1990s (326 Earls Court Road, Earls Court) The Castle (later Stonewalls and Two8Six), closed 2012 (286 Lewisham High Street, Lewisham) The Carousel Club (Orange Street, then Panton Street) The Spartan Club (Tachbrook Street, Pimlico) Hambone Club aka The Ham Bone (Ham Yard, Soho)ġ925 Hotel de France, now the site of Heavenġ931 The Gateways, closed 1985 (239 King's Road, Chelsea)ġ934 The Caravan, opened July 1934 (81 Endell Street, Covent Garden)ġ935 Billie's Club (Little Denmark Street)ġ935 Careless Stork (Denman Street, Piccadilly)ġ935 Shim Sham Club (37 Wardour Street, Soho)Ĭave of the Golden Calf (Heddon Street, Mayfair)ġ941 Arts and Battledress, closed late 1970s (Orange Street, then Rupert Street (as A&B), Soho)ġ941 Swiss Hotel, later Comptons (53 Old Compton Street, Soho)ġ941 The Crown and Two Chairmen (31–32 Dean Street, Soho)ġ946 City of Quebec (12 Old Quebec Street, Marble Arch)ġ952 A&B, previously Arts and Battledress in Orange Street (Rupert Street, Soho) The Hundred Guineas Club (Portland Place)ġ866 The Coleherne, gay from the 1950s?, closed 24 September 2008 (261 Earls Court Road, Earls Court)ġ889 19 Cleveland Street, as in the Cleveland Street scandalġ896 Trocadero Long Bar Shaftesbury Avenueġ912 The Cave of the Golden Calf (9 Heddon Street, Mayfair)ġ910 York Minster, later The French House (49 Dean Street, Soho) Harlequin (Nag's Head Court, Covent Garden)ġ810 The White Swan, Vere Street (Vere Street)ġ832 Admiral Duncan (54 Old Compton Street, Soho) Royal Oak Molly House (Giltspur Street, Smithfield) ġ724 Mother Clap's Molly House, closed 1726 (Holborn). Plump Nelly's Molly House (St James's Square, St James's). Julius Caesar Taylor's Molly House (Tottenham Court Road). Jenny Greensleeves' Molly House (Durham Yard, off the Strand).
HEAVEN GAY BAR LONDON SERIES
Broadcast to the London region late on Sunday nights, the series ran from February to March 1980, with a second series following in the summer of 1981.The Golden Ball (Bond's Stables, off Chancery Lane).
HEAVEN GAY BAR LONDON TV
Produced by LWT's Minorities Unit, Gay Life was the UK's first dedicated LGBT TV series. To its credit the programme does acknowledge that lesbians were barely catered for by the swathe of new venues opening - one explanation being they were generally earning less than their gay male counterparts. Though much progress has been made, such unhelpfully polarising struggles with identity and sexuality still pervade the gay scene.
"I think it's really pathetic" smirks soon-to-be pop star and genderqueer trailblazer Marilyn, in response to the leather queens' desperation to be accepted as "real men". But tensions between emerging factions - the "camp" drag show at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern versus "masc" Earl’s Court leather scene - dominate the programme. George Melly, gay in his younger years we're told, is wowed by the new disco mecca: "People can do whatever they want, or at least make arrangements to do it later". This corking episode of the London Weekend Television series Gay Life celebrates the opening of Heaven nightclub by exploring what the capital's scene has to offer gay men of all persuasions.