Madame Jojo's, Candy Bar, the Green Carnation, and Manbar are just some of the establishments that have recently closed. Such is the rate of closures now though, there are fears it could suffer a similar fate. That particular moniker passed to Soho in the 80s, a title it's held for some time. Once the city's most prominent gay village, Earls Court's queer quarter-a bustling hive of pubs, cafes and saunas-has all but vanished. People used to go out there because it was a little group of bars: Bromptons, Copacabana and the Coleherne."Īll three venues have now either been closed down, reopened as mixed venues, or redeveloped entirely. "When I was 15 or 16 and first out, people were still going to Earls Court. "Over the years, the scene has always been fluid and moved from area to area," says club promoter Wayne Shires, a titan of London's gay scene since the early 80s.
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