London · Walking tour

Earl’s Court – The Clone Years

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Earl’s Court was London’s first truly visible gay neighbourhood – Europe’s most celebrated leather bar, the city’s first public gay nightclub, a gay hotel, gym and gallery, and then, almost all at once, their disappearance. This walk is partly about the joy of the Clone era and partly about what was lost. It ends at the wall of Garden Lodge, where Freddie Mercury lived until the day he died.

6 stops

• 1 The Coleherne / The Pembroke · 1950s–2008
• 2 The Lord Ranelagh / Brompton’s / Infinity · 1964
• 3 The Copacabana · late 1970s
• 4 Philbeach Hotel & Wilde About Oscar · 1981–2008
• 5 Brompton Cemetery · 1970s–1980s
• 6 Garden Lodge – Freddie Mercury’s Home · 1980–1991

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