Gateways Club
239 King’s Road · London’s longest-running lesbian club
Down a green door on the King’s Road, the Gateways Club ran for decades as London’s longest-lived lesbian club – a members’ basement where women could dance together when almost nowhere else allowed it. Opened in the 1930s and women-only by the 1960s, it reached a wide audience when it appeared, with real members on screen, in the 1968 film The Killing of Sister George. It closed in 1985, but its half-century of survival made it quietly historic.