A win/win approach to the shuttered icon: reopen it as an LGBT+ venue whose profits support its leaseholder’s wider plans
10 to watch at BFI Flare 2016
10 titles of interest at this year’s London LGBT Film Festival, from sauna zombies to queer burlesquers
Star Wars: The Force Awakens isn’t just by fans, for fans – it’s about fans
The new Star Wars movie is full of characters in thrall to mythic tales of the past – but is it also a warning against the excesses of fandom?
The George & Dragon is dead. Long live the Queen Adelaide!
Just weeks after yet another favourite London queer pub closes, its landlord opens an exciting ‘sequel’ just up the road
Black Cap supporters launch community buy-out bid
Following the collapse of the planned sale of the Black Cap, devotees of the iconic LGBTQ pub hope to bring it into community ownership
What a difference a week makes
Change doesn’t come from despair. Change comes from hope. And the listing of the Royal Vauxhall Tavern and the election of Jeremy Corbyn have given us hope.
Read our application to make the RVT a listed building
Read RVT Future’s 30,000-word application, which I wrote, to make the Royal Vauxhall Tavern the country’s first building to be listed for its LGBTQ heritage
“Take your positions for the 50m mince…” Timberlina on the joy of RVT Sports Day
The annual “uncompetitive competition” is the most vital symbol of the RVT’s longstanding community ties
Open letter from Black Cap campaigners to owners: let’s talk
#WeAreTheBlackCap offers to work with iconic LGBTQ pub’s freeholders to resolve deadlock over shuttered venue
