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London’s nocturnal queer geographies: Why have London’s LGBTQ+ nightlife venues been closing and what is at stake when they are lost?
- Soundings: A journal of politics and culture
- Lawrence & Wishart
- Issue 70, Winter 2018
- pp. 82-96
- Article
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Abstract:
London’s LGBTQ+ s communities are rapidly losing their nightlife premises. There was a stark drop of 58 per cent between 2006 and 2017, partly because of property development and processes of gentrification. Behind this headline statistic there is a more complex picture of differential access to nightlife within the LGBTQ+ communities, and the article reflects on what exactly has been lost, and why. How are past and present struggles embedded in the fabric of night-spaces? How important have these been to constructions of individual and collective identity?