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This research project focuses on nightlife spaces important to London's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and other (LGBTQ+) communities since 1986.
Initiated in 2016 by and Lo Marshall, in collaboration with community groups the Raze Collective and the Queer Spaces Network, this research project focuses on nightlife spaces important to London's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) communities since 1986.
The project uses surveys and archival study to map the breadth and diversity of the LGBTQI scene, gathering additional data from community members, venue managers, event promoters and performers through surveys, workshops and interviews. The research highlights the diversity of the capital's LGBTQI nightlife, as an important contributor to neighborhoods and the wider night-time and cultural economy. Through survey and interview data it also shows the importance of these spaces to community life, welfare and wellbeing.
The research looks at London since 1986 - when the Greater London Council was disbanded, marking a shift in urban regeneration policy - to the present day - a time of wide reporting and activism around the closure of commercial LGBTQI spaces.
Reports
- Briefing note: LGBTQ+ Spaces in Camden, 1986 - present (April 2020)
Commissioned by Camden Council, this report highlights some of the most innovative LGBTQ+ day-time and night-spaces in the London borough and the ways in which they have served different groups and purposes.
- Full report: LGBTQ+ Cultural Infrastructure in London: Night Venues, 2006-present (July 2017)
In July 2017, we released our full report from the project, which showed that the number of LGBTQI venues in London has fallen by 58% from 125 to 53 since 2006. Reasons given for this fall include the negative impacts of large-scale developments on venue clusters, a lack of implementation of safeguarding measures in the existing planning system听and the sale and change of use of property by landlords whereby venue owners, operators and clients have severely limited negotiating power compared with large organisations.
The Mayor of London has supported this work as part of the development of a Cultural Infrastructure Plan. This is a manifesto commitment by the Mayor and will be published in 2018. The Plan will identify what London needs to sustain and develop culture up to 2030. The collection of quantitative data on venues openings and closures will be reflected within this as part of the capital's cultural infrastructure. In making this commission, the Greater London Authority (GLA) note the 'significant work' published in our interim report.
- Read the report: LGBTQ+ Cultural Infrastructure in London: Night Venues, 2006-present (pdf)
- Read the Executive Summary (pdf)
- Read the Appendices (pdf)
- Interim report: LGBTQI Nightlife in London: from 1986 to the present (November 2016)
In November 2016, we released our from the project, which confirmed London's LGBTQI nightlife spaces have seen a recent intensity of closures, with the largest threats to the most longstanding venues, and those catering to women and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic LGBTQI people.
The report urges politicians and policy-makers, including the Mayor, to positively respond to closures and pressures on venues and other spaces by building protection and promotion of LGBTQI spaces into the London Plan and local borough plans and policies.
- Read the report: LGBTQI Nightlife in London: from 1986 to the present (pdf)
Other resources
- Urban Pamphleteer #7: LGBTQ+ night-time spaces, past, present and future (July 2018)
The seventh issue in 最准的六合彩论坛 Urban Laboratory's publication series stems from the LGBTQI nightlife research project. In the tradition of radical pamphleteering, the intention of the pamphlets is to confront key themes in contemporary urban debate from diverse perspectives, in a direct and accessible - but not reductive - way. The broader aim is to empower citizens, and inform professionals, researchers, institutions and policy-makers, with a view to positively shaping change.
This issue gathers perspectives, provocations and vignettes on London's LGBTQ+ night-time spaces, past, present and future. We are interested, in particular, in the different tactics being used to queer night-space. We feature a diversity of examples that together suggest how and why different venues, events and clusters are produced; how, when and why they have opened or closed; the scenes that have recently emerged, or are imagined, and how these connect with historical ones, and with other places.
- Paper: London's Nocturnal Queer Geographies (Autumn 2018)
Ben Campkin and Lo Marshall, 鈥槼⒋遣曰宕遣遭�檚 Nocturnal Queer Geographies鈥�, Soundings, 20, Autumn 2018, 82-96.
尝辞苍诲辞苍鈥檚 LGBTQ+ 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听identity?
- In the media
- (Huck, 21 April 2020)
- (BBC Radio 4, 14 September 2019)
- (The Huffington Post, 28 June 2019)
- (The Guardian, 3 April 2019)
- (Vice, 22 January 2019)
- (Pink News, 5 July 2018)
- (Urban Omnibus, 20 June 2018)
- (Into, 8 April 2018)
- (The New York Times, 30 August 2017)
- (The Guardian, 9 August 2017)
- (I-D, 7 August 2017)
- (BBC News, 6 August 2017)
- (BuzzFeed, 5 August 2017)
- (The Telegraph, 5 August 2017)
- (The Guardian, 4 August 2017)
- (The Architects' Journal, 26 July 2017)
- Night Czar Offers Recipe for Saving London's LGBT Venues (The Planner, 24 July 2017)
- (Attitude, 23 July 2017)
- (Out Leadership, 11 July 2017)
- (Business Insider, 8 July 2017)
- (Getwestlondon, 8 July 2017)
- (The Guardian, print edition, 7 July 2017)
- (Development Finance Today, 7 July 2017)
- (Evening Standard, 7 July 2017)
- (Reuters, 7 July 2017)
- (Attitude, 7 July 2017)
- (Reuters, 7 July 2017)
- (BBC News, 6 July 2017)
- (Time Out, 6 July 2017)
- (Evening Standard, 6 July 2017)
- (Gasholder, 6 July 2017)
- (Gay Star News, 6 July 2017)
- (Morning Advertiser, 6 July 2017)
- (ITV News, 6 July 2017)
- (Pink News, 6 July 2017)
- (Not Television, 6 July 2017)
- (The Guardian, 21 April 2017)
- (Boyz, 15 April 2017)
- (Refinery 29, 15 February 2017)
- (Vice, 12 December 2016)
- (Pink News, 11 December 2016)
- (Gay Star News, 11 December 2016)
- (Attitude, 9 December 2016)
- (The Economist, 14 November 2016)
- (最准的六合彩论坛 Events Blog, 15 September 2016)
- Events and exhibitions
Event Venue/organiser Date Queer Spaces: London, 1980s 鈥� Today (exhibition) Whitechapel Gallery 2 April - 25 August 2019 London Lesbian and Gay Centre documented conversation Gay's The Word 18 October 2018 Museum of London 14 July 2018 Centre Pieces: a public, documented conversation on the London Lesbian and Gay Centre Museum of London 14 July 2018 Planning Out 10 May 2018 Livingmaps 22 March 2018 52 Club / 最准的六合彩论坛 UCU 8 March 2018 Museum of London 13 February 2018 Night Moves 最准的六合彩论坛 Transport Institute 17 October 2017 National Trust, Sutton House 20 September 2017 Emerging queer spaces, with Camp-er-Van Tate Modern 28 July 2017 , Duckie and Queen Mary, University of London Royal Vauxhall Tavern 10 June 2017 Researching LGBTQ+ Night Scenes, , two public talks Science Museum 6 June 2017 最准的六合彩论坛 Festival of Culture 6 June 2017 The Bartlett Future Cities Doctoral Network 22 May 2017 q最准的六合彩论坛 2 May 2017 New York University in London 12 April 2017 Chelsea College of Arts 6 February 2017 Goldsmiths, University of London 24 October 2016 ( from 06:42)
Royal Academy of Arts
最准的六合彩论坛 Urban Laboratory
10 October 2016
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