They’re really gutting it, if the beer coolers are already ripped out!!
They should have had an auction.
If balls could talk
christ – auction/sell this stuff off rather than just skipping it!
I need that disco ball 🥴
The owner is notoriously tight, I’m surprised this stuff wasn’t carted down the road to Heaven!
I wonder if the famous mouldy ice machine is there?
When they were gutting the Astoria there was a huge disco ball in the skip outside. I really regret not nabbing that.
Soho is going to be a vapid, corporate shell of its former self in 10 years, isn’t it?
It is incredibly sad. Equally as sad as when the Astoria closed down.
I hope the community decides to relocate to somewhere where they can own the property and build a commmunity. They’ll take with it a large percentage of the culture that makes Soho so wonderful.
This is just sad. 😞
Disco is not dead!
Very sad. Good times had in GAY!
Noooo!
Very little has been done to keep it running, rude pervy bouncers and bar staff that struggled to serve drinks, or clean the ice machine. And to top it all off towards the end it served more straight people then gay. I do agree that it is extremely sad how Soho has died, alongside most of London. But G-A-Y should’ve died along time ago, and maybe someone would’ve been able to revive it as an actual good place?
This is sad to see. It was one of the first LGBTQ venues I went to in London and growing up it was re-assuring to have such a visible gay venue – out and proud.
I do think the gay scene in London has changed also – with more focus on community and alcohol-free venues like the Common Press, and the LGBTQ centre (Bridge@Southwark) in London Bridge. The bar itself was a bit in the mid-road too – not the nicest security feeling on edge, only mainly for discount drinks.
Soho has been done for 15+ years. Anyone that thought it was great a decade ago versus now, is correct. But a decade ago it was shit versus 5 years prior. And those that saw it 25 years ago would say my opinion is out of date. Sanitised year on year.
Well, the mainstream gay scene is pretty awful anyway, full of the most racist, bigoted and shallow people in existence with no sense of morality, bro code or decency and have very little to offer anyone, so I don’t think I’ll miss this place. Let’s whack in some council homes everyone is so keen to build and have done with it.
I need a glitterball
Wow I remember a big ceremony in 1994 where Old Compton Street was renamed Queer Street and there was a big street party because it had been pedestrianised. I kissed my then-boyfriend on a big truck as it drove along the road, cheered on by Jeremy Joseph.
Every business on the road had had to sign a consent form to allow the name change, even if it wasn’t an official thing, but every business did. Every building was gay or gay adjacent (opticians David Clulow, I was told, was founded by the gay Mr Clulow).
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Shit! Someone grab that glitter ball!!!!
Shit like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/london/s/BMUb1omHuD) didn’t help I imagine.
Were the Malibu bottles full?!
(First drink I got drunk on!)
He was his own downfall
I won’t miss the vile bouncers.
Alex Turner enquire about the mirrorball….
They’re really gutting it, if the beer coolers are already ripped out!!
They should have had an auction.
If balls could talk
christ – auction/sell this stuff off rather than just skipping it!
I need that disco ball 🥴
The owner is notoriously tight, I’m surprised this stuff wasn’t carted down the road to Heaven!
I wonder if the famous mouldy ice machine is there?
When they were gutting the Astoria there was a huge disco ball in the skip outside. I really regret not nabbing that.
Soho is going to be a vapid, corporate shell of its former self in 10 years, isn’t it?
It is incredibly sad. Equally as sad as when the Astoria closed down.
I hope the community decides to relocate to somewhere where they can own the property and build a commmunity. They’ll take with it a large percentage of the culture that makes Soho so wonderful.
This is just sad. 😞
Disco is not dead!
Very sad. Good times had in GAY!
Noooo!
Very little has been done to keep it running, rude pervy bouncers and bar staff that struggled to serve drinks, or clean the ice machine. And to top it all off towards the end it served more straight people then gay. I do agree that it is extremely sad how Soho has died, alongside most of London. But G-A-Y should’ve died along time ago, and maybe someone would’ve been able to revive it as an actual good place?
This is sad to see. It was one of the first LGBTQ venues I went to in London and growing up it was re-assuring to have such a visible gay venue – out and proud.
I do think the gay scene in London has changed also – with more focus on community and alcohol-free venues like the Common Press, and the LGBTQ centre (Bridge@Southwark) in London Bridge. The bar itself was a bit in the mid-road too – not the nicest security feeling on edge, only mainly for discount drinks.
Still sad to see it go.
Why the F are you guys giving up?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15k2eln77zo.amp – about the closure.
Soho has been done for 15+ years. Anyone that thought it was great a decade ago versus now, is correct. But a decade ago it was shit versus 5 years prior. And those that saw it 25 years ago would say my opinion is out of date. Sanitised year on year.
Standard reminder – https://open.spotify.com/track/6p8WOEtAdFq4514mpd0eGD?si=tqykbX8UTb-urSe-opdTdw
Well, the mainstream gay scene is pretty awful anyway, full of the most racist, bigoted and shallow people in existence with no sense of morality, bro code or decency and have very little to offer anyone, so I don’t think I’ll miss this place. Let’s whack in some council homes everyone is so keen to build and have done with it.
I need a glitterball
Wow I remember a big ceremony in 1994 where Old Compton Street was renamed Queer Street and there was a big street party because it had been pedestrianised. I kissed my then-boyfriend on a big truck as it drove along the road, cheered on by Jeremy Joseph.
Every business on the road had had to sign a consent form to allow the name change, even if it wasn’t an official thing, but every business did. Every building was gay or gay adjacent (opticians David Clulow, I was told, was founded by the gay Mr Clulow).
Have they finally castrated Gary Glitter?
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