#WeAreTheBlackCap and RVT Future coverage in Time Out London, VICE, the Independent and QX
As regular readers of Not Television will know, it’s been a bit of a busy week for campaigning around threatened iconic London LGBTQ venues.
The past week or so saw the launch of both RVT Future and #WeAreTheBlackCap, groups supporting London’s oldest gay pubs, both of which I’ve been involved with.
I’ve posted plenty of stuff here on the blog that you can easily find on the homepage, but I’ve also been popping up in other media outlets on both sides of the journalist/subject divide.
So I wrote a short piece for the front of this week’s Time Out London about the sudden closure of the Black Cap:
And I also wrote an article introducing RVT Future to the readers of QX (which is also online here):
Because I was one of the speakers at the #WeAreTheBlackCap protest last Saturday (April 18 2015), I also appeared in some of the coverage and was quoted in very good articles in the Independent (which you can read here) and VICE (which you can read here).
I was also a guest on Robert Elms’s BBC London radio show, and we had a pretty meaty 20-minute conversation about the overall situation and the threat to London’s independent spaces. You can listen again here to the show – my interview is from about 1:38 to 1:58 but the whole show has some very interesting material about drag culture, underground spaces and changing London.
