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A lot of small businesses have suffered, but none more so, it seems, than those catering to the LGBT community.Īt least 12 gay venues have faced closure in recent years. Gentrification has made entire boroughs of the city uninhabitable for anyone on anything less than an £100k salary. Over the past few years, the recession has pummelled and squeezed London like a Skittle-fed toddler let loose on the Play-Doh. My own kitsch-induced existential crisis aside, the queue I just waited in did not exactly scream “gay scene in distress”. When I reach the packed downstairs club, ABBA is playing and I start to wonder if the gay scene is now stratified with so many layers of irony that its about to collapse in on itself. The bar is co-owned, after all, by East London’s doyenne of drag, Jonny Woo. We’re waiting, in the January cold, to get inside, have several G&Ts and dance with some drag queens. Tickets for the 30th-anniversary party are expected to go on sale soon.It’s midnight and outside The Glory, one of London’s newest gay bars, I’m part of a pick ‘n’ mix of queers that’s trailing down the Haggerston end of Kingsland Road, towards Shoreditch. The news comes four months after the original venue was commemorated with a plaque by Islington's Pride. Running from 1990 to 2002, Trade was the capital’s first-ever legal after-hours club, running parties at the now-defunct Turnmills every Sunday. “I can't wait to welcome back our Trade family and introduce new audiences to our journey through sound." "Trade has always been a melting pot for its crowd and its music,” said Trade owner Laurence Malice.
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The club celebrated its 25th-anniversary with an exhibition and a party back in 2015, titled "Trade: The Final Party". Promising to "bring everyone together for what promises to be one of 2022’s biggest dates in the clubbing calendar," the party will run from Saturday into Sunday, and will be fired up by the club's world-beating sound system. Taking place at King's Cross venue EGG LDN on 12th February 2022, the club will mark three decades with a 24-hour event featuring a host of resident DJs and some "very special international guests" to be announced. Legendary London gay club night TRADE has revealed initial details of its 30th-anniversary party.