London Food & Culture

LGBT

Books

Gay’s The Word at 40: see LGBT activist Mark Ashton’s plaque

The pioneering bookshop has been around for four decades

Art

MUST DO: Queer British Art, Tate Britain

Deeply personal works are to be presented in the Tate’s first ever LGBT exhibition

History

‘The 1967 bill did nothing for the rights of lesbians, women and transgendered people’

Andrew Lumsden, original member of the Gay Liberation Front, on the slow march towards equality

Drink

Booze in this recreation of a 1930s gay members’ bar

For one month only the pop-up Caravan Club is the best place in town for potent cocktails and saucy shenanigans

History

Top 10: LGBT History Month

Discussions, club nights, history walks and more across Camden, Islington and King’s Cross

Film & Theatre

MUST DO: Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest 2016

This month sees the event’s sixth outing in venues across east and central London

LGBT

‘As an independent LGBT bar you must adapt to survive’

What’s it like working at tiny subterranean LGBT spot the New Bloomsbury Set? Clare Hand speaks to bartender Matt Lawrence

LGBT

Why I’m marching at Pride 2016

We’re a community of people who, regardless of how we may be attacked, cannot and will not be removed, argues Clare Hand