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13 July 2026

  • 23:5723:57, 13 July 2026 diff hist +307 Nm User talk:Test-new-01 Welcome! current
  • 23:2223:22, 13 July 2026 diff hist +1 m Main Page No edit summary current
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  • 17:2317:23, 13 July 2026 diff hist +1,979 N Troll Created page with "'''Troll''' was a Saturday night at the Soundshaft, the small club behind Heaven at Charing Cross, running from 1988 to 1990. It was the defining gay acid house night of its moment in London – described by those who were there and those who have written about it since as the gay equivalent of Shoom or The Trip – and it shaped a generation of British gay DJs and clubbers. The night was promoted by '''React''' (James Horrocks, Thomas Foley, and Steven Reac..." current
  • 17:2317:23, 13 July 2026 diff hist +1,458 N Soundshaft Created page with "The '''Soundshaft''' was a small club attached to Heaven at Charing Cross, with its own entrance on Hungerford Lane behind Craven Street, though it could also be reached directly from Heaven's main space. While Heaven operated as London's largest and most famous gay club through the 1980s and 1990s, the Soundshaft ran as an intimate sister venue where some of the most significant nights in British gay dance culture took place. Its most celebrated tenant was [[Troll]..." current
  • 17:2217:22, 13 July 2026 diff hist +3,188 N Tony De Vit Created page with "'''Tony De Vit''' (1957–1998) was a British DJ and record producer who became the defining resident of Trade at Turnmills in Farringdon and is widely regarded as the founding figure of hard house – the relentless, accelerating sound he helped create and that he drove to its peak at the dawn end of Trade's Sunday sessions. He is known in British club culture as '''the Godfather of Hard House'''. He has a blue plaque at the Custard Factory in Birmingham – the fir..." current
  • 17:2017:20, 13 July 2026 diff hist +2,355 N Shoom Created page with "'''Shoom''' was a London acid house club night founded by '''Danny Rampling''' in September 1987, widely credited with launching the British acid house movement and the Second Summer of Love. It was not a gay club, but its origins, its culture, and its influence are inseparable from the history of gay nightlife in London. Rampling had returned from Ibiza in the summer of 1987, where he, Paul Oakenfold, Nicky Holloway, and Johnny Walker had heard DJ Alfredo playing at Am..." current
  • 17:1917:19, 13 July 2026 diff hist +24 N Talk:Trade (nightclub) LGBT-HP moved page Talk:Trade (nightclub) to Talk:Trade current Tag: New redirect
  • 17:1917:19, 13 July 2026 diff hist 0 m Talk:Trade LGBT-HP moved page Talk:Trade (nightclub) to Talk:Trade current
  • 17:1917:19, 13 July 2026 diff hist +19 N Trade (nightclub) LGBT-HP moved page Trade (nightclub) to Trade current Tag: New redirect
  • 17:1917:19, 13 July 2026 diff hist 0 m Trade LGBT-HP moved page Trade (nightclub) to Trade current
  • 17:1817:18, 13 July 2026 diff hist +2,336 N Laurence Malice Created page with "'''Laurence Malice''' is a London club promoter, best known as the founder of Trade, the after-hours gay club at Turnmills in Farringdon that ran from 1990 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest club nights in the world. Malice came to Trade through an earlier career in London nightlife that placed him at the centre of gay club culture in the 1980s. He co-created '''Pyramid''', a mixed gay night at Heaven, and was involved with the Thursday night '''Asylu..." current
  • 17:1817:18, 13 July 2026 diff hist −2 m Trade No edit summary
  • 17:1617:16, 13 July 2026 diff hist +2,741 Trade rich rewrite
  • 17:0817:08, 13 July 2026 diff hist +2,306 N Jack Saul Created page with "'''Jack Saul''' (c.1857–c.1904) was an Irish-born male sex worker who became the most celebrated and documented figure in the Victorian trade of male prostitution in London. His name appears in two of the defining scandals of late nineteenth-century queer London – the Cleveland Street scandal of 1889 and the Dublin Castle affair – and he is the attributed author of ''The Sins of the Cities of the Plain'' (1881), one of the earliest and most important documents..." current
  • 17:0717:07, 13 July 2026 diff hist +1,687 N Trocadero Created page with "The '''Trocadero''' at Piccadilly Circus has occupied the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and Coventry Street since the 1880s, operating successively as a music hall annexe, a grand Edwardian restaurant, a tourist entertainment complex, and a nightlife venue. Its LGBT history runs from the Victorian promenade era through to the final years of DTPM in the 2000s. The original Trocadero Restaurant opened in 1896, built on the site of the former Argyll Rooms. It was a..." current
  • 17:0617:06, 13 July 2026 diff hist +2,031 N DTPM Created page with "'''DTPM''' ('''Demens Trelirium Post Meridien''') was a London club night founded in 1993 by promoter '''Lee Freeman''', running every Sunday and widely regarded as one of the finest gay and polysexual nights the city has produced. The name – mock-Latin for something like "afternoon madness" – reflected its identity as a Sunday tea dance for serious clubbers, many of them arriving directly from Trade, the legendary after-hours night at Turnmills. DTPM billed itse..." current
  • 16:5816:58, 13 July 2026 diff hist +1,863 N Colin MacInnes Created page with "'''Colin MacInnes''' (1914–1976) was a British novelist best known for his London trilogy – ''City of Spades'' (1957), ''Absolute Beginners'' (1959), and ''Mr Love and Justice'' (1960) – which captured the underworld, youth culture, and racial complexity of post-war London with a directness that contemporary literary fiction largely avoided. MacInnes was born in London but spent much of his childhood in Australia, returning to England in his twenties. He was a gra..." current
  • 16:5716:57, 13 July 2026 diff hist +2,059 N J.R. Ackerley Created page with "'''Joseph Randolph Ackerley''' (1896–1967), known as '''J.R. Ackerley''', was a British author, memoirist, and literary editor whose posthumously published memoir ''My Father and Myself'' (1968) is one of the most candid and affecting accounts of a gay life in twentieth-century England. Ackerley was born in Herne Hill, London. His father, Arthur Ackerley, was a prosperous fruit merchant who – as Ackerley discovered only after his father's death – had maintained a..." current
  • 16:5416:54, 13 July 2026 diff hist 0 m London Pavilion No edit summary current
  • 16:5316:53, 13 July 2026 diff hist +1,400 N London Pavilion Created page with "The '''London Pavilion''' at 1 Piccadilly Circus was rebuilt in its current form in 1885 as one of London's largest and most fashionable Victorian music halls. For anyone who knew where to look, it was also one of the most reliable meeting places for men seeking other men in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The building's upper tier contained a promenade – a wide gallery circling the auditorium – that became notorious for the mix of sex workers, gay..."
  • 16:5316:53, 13 July 2026 diff hist +1,784 N Criterion Restaurant Created page with "The '''Criterion Restaurant''' at 224 Piccadilly is a Grade I listed restaurant beneath the south side of Piccadilly Circus, whose Byzantine gold mosaic ceiling – designed by Thomas Verity and completed in 1875 – is among the most spectacular Victorian interiors in London. It is also one of the oldest documented gay venues in the city. The entrance is a few steps below pavement level, opening into a long hall of mirrored arches and gilded tiles that has changed..." current
  • 16:5116:51, 13 July 2026 diff hist +1,413 N Regent's Palace Hotel Created page with "The '''Regent's Palace Hotel''' on Glasshouse Street, just off Piccadilly Circus, was one of the largest hotels in Europe when it opened in 1915. For much of the mid-twentieth century its bar was one of the most reliable gay meeting places in central London. The hotel was designed by Henry Tanner and built by J. Lyons & Co. – the same company that operated the Lilypond Corner House a short walk away on Coventry Street. With over a thousand rooms and a..." current
  • 16:5016:50, 13 July 2026 diff hist +2,057 N Lilypond Created page with "The '''Lilypond''' was the nickname given by staff and regulars to the first-floor restaurant of the Lyons Corner House on Coventry Street, just off Piccadilly Circus. From the 1930s it became one of the most important gay meeting places in London – not despite being a brightly lit, respectable chain tea room, but because of it. J. Lyons & Co. opened their Coventry Street Corner House in 1909. It operated on several floors, serving thousands of meals a day at pric..." current
  • 16:3316:33, 13 July 2026 diff hist +4 m Piccadilly Circus →1950s current
  • 16:3216:32, 13 July 2026 diff hist +4 m Piccadilly Circus →1950s
  • 16:2816:28, 13 July 2026 diff hist +4,305 Piccadilly Circus total re-write, introducing Edwardian era, Dilly boys, financed by American money

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