Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Courtesy Gateways Grind/Everett (thedailybeast.com) For 50 years, down an ...

Dir/scr: Jacquie Lawrence. UK. 2021. 80 mins. Largely unknown now, Gateways Club, a small basement club off London’s King’s Road, played an essential role in the history of the UK’s lesbian scene. As ...

If you were a lesbian in Chelsea, London, between 1943 and 1985, then you may have found yourself standing outside of a dull green door at 239 Kings Road. After you whispered the ...

The Gateways Club let women be themselves away from society’s prying eyes The story of the world’s oldest lesbian bar is a hushed one. People spoke of it in whispers and members had to say a password ...

For a long time, it was a case of if you know, you know. A green door on the corner of King's Road and Bramerton Street in Chelsea was — for over half a century — the portal to a world of acceptance ...

During the height of The Gateway club’s popularity in the 1960s, Mick Jagger turned up and begged for entry. He knew this was a space for women only but he wasn’t taking no for an answer. “He said ‘Go ...

For 50 years, down an unassuming side street in the exclusive borough of Chelsea, West London, “the bohemian hung out, the artists drank—and naughty sex happened.” Trudy Howson, LGBT poet laureate, ...

For 50 years, down an unassuming side street in the exclusive borough of Chelsea, West London, “the bohemian hung out, the artists drank—and naughty sex happened.” The Killing of Sister George, the ...