Police Raids in the 1980’s
Going through the Hall Carpenter Archive in London, there is a lot of articles written in the 1980’s highlighting the number of police raids and entrapment cases going on in gay bars at the time. Here’s a few examples.
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The Devil Rides Out – Paul O’Grady
I’ve just been reading Paul O’Grady’s Biography, which is broken down into 3 books. There’s some very interesting recollections of the RVT. The part below is from the second book ‘The Devil Rides Out’ when Paul was performing as part of the drag group ‘The Glamazons’. “At the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, in what felt like a rough part of sarf…
Stuart Feather describes the RVT in the 1960’s
Stuart Feather was a member of the Bloolips with Bette Bourne, as well as well being a member of the Gay Liberation Front in the 1970’s.
Jason & Robert
Jason & Robert discuss gay bars from their younger days and homophobic abuse outside the RVT.
Bette Bourne on the RVT
Bette remembers the RVT from the 1950’s when he was 17 and it was divided in 3 sections. It was one of those pubs where you weren’t quite sure who was gay or not.
Interview with Bette Bourne & Paul Shaw
The project is moving along nicely – we did one of our first interviews last week with Bette Bourne and Paul Shaw. Bette used to go to the RVT in the 1950’s and remembers the bar being split into 3 sections, one of them being just for ladies. We’ll be posting the interview in the next day or so….