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
Check out these pics from the first ever RVT Sports Day in 1982
The Royal Vauxhall Tavern charity event – home of the drag relay and handbag throw – dates back more than 30 years. See where it all began…
“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
BFI talks on Welles’s TV work and London’s vanishing queer spaces
Some info on talks I’m giving at BFI Southbank in August 2015 about Orson Welles’s radical yet little-known TV work, and London’s vanishing queer spaces
Don’t let the RVT’s owners close it and blame the community!
The property developers who own the iconic London LGBTQ venue are trying to pin its possible closure on the campaigners fighting to save it
Musical about Princess Di and Freddie Mercury’s night at the RVT comes to… the RVT
Once upon a time, Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett put Princess Diana in drag and took her to Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Now a musical based on the event debuts at the Tavern’s weekly Bar Wotever night.
London LGBT venue closures – don’t let the RVT be next!
After the shock closure of the Black Cap, a new campaign – RVT Future – launches to support the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, the UK’s oldest LGBT pub and cabaret space
BFI Flare 2015 preview for Sight & Sound
A preview (first published in Sight & Sound) of the 2015 edition of BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival, including I Am Michael, 54: The Director’s Cut, Dressed as a Girl and a range of archive and documentary work
‘What better role model to put out on the streets?’ Street artist Pegasus brings Tom Daley to the RVT
Not that we needed one, but there’s a whole new reason to love the Royal Vauxhall Tavern: a life-size street-art stencil of Britain’s fave Olympic medalist/smiley twink/Speedo-model/same-sex-love poster boy, Tom Daley, brandishing a groin-level declaration that ‘All We Need Is Love’, complete with rainbow-hued love-heart. Created on Friday (January 17, 2014) by street artist Pegasus, the […]
