Up Next: Polari at the RVT

As seen in Netflix’s Bridgerton, Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens was once at the heart of the capital’s nightlife and a centre for scandalous liaisons and secretive assignations.
A flash of green amid traffic-choked roads, elevated railway lines and anonymous high-rise apartment and office blocks, Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens is a well-kept but unremarkable south London park. When I visited on a sunny spring afternoon, wildflowers dotted the grass and shouts sounded from the football pitch. At the edge of the seven-acre park, mesmerised […]

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As part of our celebration of Vauxhall during February 2021 LGBTQ+ History Month, James Lindsay CEO/Managing Director at Royal Vauxhall Tavern provides an insight into the community that The RVT fosters, and has done since its inception in the 19th century.
Click here to read what it means to him, and the impact RVT has on the performers and visitors.

I moved to London in 2000; a naive country boy fleeing the final act of a twelve year relationship, in the hope of establishing fresh roots and a new way of being. After a number of failed attempts to ground myself socially, I was reverentially advised by a handsome Soho stranger (there were so many in those early days it seemed) to head ‘sarf of the river’ to the ‘Royal Vauxhall Tavern’.
Read the full blog post.