The Fitzroy Tavern
16 Charlotte Street · a bohemian queer haven
On the corner of Charlotte Street, the Fitzroy Tavern drew a mixed bohemian crowd from the 1920s onward — artists, writers and a discreet queer clientele who found tolerance rare elsewhere. Dylan Thomas, Nina Hamnett and Julian Maclaren-Ross drank here, and the pub's easy mingling of class, sexuality and creativity made it one of the best-documented queer-friendly spaces in pre-war London. Police watched it closely; for those who knew, its noise and crush offered a kind of cover.