ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Taking pride in the gay presence
TOM KING recommends an excellent exhibition celebrating LGBT+ venues in London
Lea l'attentive, Soroya Marchelle at Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 2018
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Queer Spaces: London, 1980s — Today
Whitechapel Gallery, London
THE ROYAL Vauxhall Tavern — to its loyal patrons, simply the RVT — is an imposing Victorian pub in south London which made history in 2015 as the first building in Britain to be awarded grade-2 listed status for its significance to the LGBT+ community.
Surviving the Blitz, the bulldozers of “progress” and, so far, the developers’ beady eye, the tavern’s been home to exhilarating cabaret for decades and it’s nurtured the career of many drag queens — most notably, Lily Savage.
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