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Queering Camden: a new LGBTQ+ community mapping project

Founder Sarah Allen explains more about her inventive way to tackle queer isolation in difficult times

LGBT

Zodiac Bar: north London’s newest LGBTQ+ venue

Against the ongoing closure of Camden’s legendary Black Cap, a new bar has quietly opened between Tufnell Park and Archway

Community

The world’s first Vagina Museum opens in Camden Market

The museum is inclusive and open to people of all ages, genders and sexual orientations, say the founders

Culture

Wac Arts celebrates turning 40 with a festival weekender

Scissor Sisters’ Ana Matronic is one of the highlights at the LGBTQ-focused three-dayer this month

Drink

Why every pub should support Ask For Clive

Phill Hoddinott on an initiative that encourages bar staff to take action if LGBTQ customers are experiencing abuse

LGBT

Outsider Pride is at Castlehaven Community Park

A safe, sober event for LGBTQ homeless people and their supporters takes place in Camden this weekend

LGBT

Love The Black Cap? Two dates for the diary

Camden’s legendary LGBTQ pub and club is back in a photographic exhibition – and one-off club night

Rios Kentish Town
LGBT

Will rainbow flags ever fly at Rio’s Naturist Spa?

Time to address the legendary sauna’s transphobic changing room policy, says Clare Hand

LGBT

Coming Clean review – a genuine snapshot of gay life from 1982

Kevin Elyot’s seminal play set in Kentish Town has an authenticity that lingers in the memory

The Outside Project
LGBT

Outside Project launch a new LGBTIQ+ community hub in Camden

Neither bar nor club, this is a positive, sober space run by queer activists

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