Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs, and LGBTQ+ Parties
lost queer spaces
How do queer spaces help to shape people's lives?
Why are they so important to the LGBTQ+ community?
What is the impact of losing these spaces?
Lost Spaces explores these questions (and more!) through conversations with members of the LGBT community.
Each week host K Anderson sits down with a different guest to discuss a space from their past, why it was important to them, and how it helped shape who they are.
Expect conversations about coming out, going out, and getting down.
And snogging strangers on sweaty dancefloors. We can't talk about gay history without that coming up.
Why are they so important to the LGBTQ+ community?
What is the impact of losing these spaces?
Lost Spaces explores these questions (and more!) through conversations with members of the LGBT community.
Each week host K Anderson sits down with a different guest to discuss a space from their past, why it was important to them, and how it helped shape who they are.
Expect conversations about coming out, going out, and getting down.
And snogging strangers on sweaty dancefloors. We can't talk about gay history without that coming up.
Episodes
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Nov 6, 2019 • 33min
Kudos Bar, London (with Wilfrid Wood)
I had never heard of ‘Kudos’, which was an out-of-the-way pub in Charing Cross, London, but I loved hearing from sculptor Wilfrid Wood about his experiences there, and what the place meant to him whilst he was figuring out who he was and what he wanted from life. What I loved most about this conversation was how candid and up-front Wilfrid was… I’m sure you’ll enjoy his frankness too!
Oct 25, 2019 • 37min
The Joiners' Arms, London (with Mark Walton)
Who hasn't spent an evening stumbling out of The Joiners' Arms, which was once described as 'Britain's trendiest gay dive'? Due to its late night opening the bar had a reputation as a 'last chance saloon', and was often where people would head to instead of home when everything else had closed.
I spoke to Mark Walton - a fantastic poet, and founder of social enterprise Shared Assets - about some of his fondest memories of frequenting the bar after he moved to London in the mid-00s.
