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1940s gay bar london fashion2/10/2024 Police raids will not, thankfully, feature in these re-enactments. Throughout the month, the National Trust - an institution more commonly associated with country houses - will run daytime tours of Soho’s queer heritage, which includes a trip to the Caravan, while at night the venue will be serving period-correct cocktails, and hosting cabarets, talks and debates. ![]() The Caravan will be recreated 2-26 March at Freud Café-Bar on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue, a few yards from where the real Caravan once stood. The reopening of the Caravan, "London’s most bohemian rendezvous", according to one of the 1934 club’s members, forms part of a wider programme, Prejudice and Pride, which explores lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer heritage in an age before the sexual revolution. ![]() Image courtesy of the National Trust and the National Archives Police raid on a queer venue in Fitzroy Square, 1927.
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