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May 19, 2013
London: gunshots outside gay club Fire

Club-goers took to social networking to report gunfire outside Vauxhall’s super-club Fire

Police are investigating reports of gunfire outside a London gay club early this morning.

Prior to a BBC report that said no arrests have been made and no injuries were reported, party-goers took to Twitter to express their concern.

Roland @RollsUK tweeted: The police cordoned off Fire in Vauxhall.’

@CheekyLondon wrote: ‘Loads of police and loads of forensics.’

Police were called to the scene around 4 am., but reportedly the perpetrators were not found.

March 28, 2013
Hamburger Queen: Gay cabaret acts celebrate fat bodies

Gay cabaret artists join forces to celebrate all things fat with beauty pageant Hamburger Queen

London cabaret acts, Amy Lamé and Scottee, have responded to a world where fat is under attack, mocking Miss America-style pageants with entertainment show, Hamburger Queen.

The gay duo explained in an interview with Beige Magazine, they were ‘sick of the negative portrayal of larger people’ and decided it was ‘time to celebrate more healthy role models in chub culture’.

September 25, 2012
Drag queen 'heath whore' faces charity roasting

London's Royal Vauxhall Tavern and QX magazine team up to 'roast' drag star Sandra in a hilarious night to raise money for the Terrence Higgins Trust

Legendary drag star Sandra is set to face a ‘right royal roasting’ in aid of an HIV charity in London.

The Drag Roast is being organized by gay magazine QX and pub Royal Vauxhall Tavern, aiming to raise funds for HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust.

The Whore of Hampstead Heath will face the wrath of her drag circuit friends as they deliver one hilarious story after another.

August 6, 2012
Police warn of tainted drugs after London gay club death

Contaminated drugs may be circulating in UK capital after death and collapses on gay scene. Plus another man collapses in gay Soho sauna on same night

Police are worried London’s gay clubbers may be offered contaminated drugs after one man died and three others had to be hospitalized in just one night.

As Gay Star News reported yesterday, the man who died and two others who fell ill were at gay scene venues in Vauxhall, south London – an area popular with clubbers.

August 5, 2012
Man dies after night out in gay London club

Police are looking for witnesses and anyone with information concerning a death in the British capital. Two others hospitalized - one in serious condition

A man has died after a night out in a south London gay club in the early hours of this morning (5 August).

Ambulances were called to help save three men in Goding Street close to the gay club Area in Vauxhall.

The first was called at 4.08am to help an unconscious 25-year-old, referred to in the police report as male one, and was taken to St Thomas’ Hospital in serious condition.

In a statement made to Gay Star News, a London Ambulance spokesperson said: ‘We were called at 4am to Goding Street, SE11 to a man reported to have stopped breathing.

June 1, 2012
Mince your way to victory at the Vauxhall Gay Sports Day

Forget the Olympics, be part of the other greatest (or gayest) sporting events of the year

If your dreams of becoming the next Olympian are slowly being dashed, there’s no need to despair.

Placed between the closing ceremony of the Olympics and the opening ceremony of the Paralympics, there is another London 2012 sporting event where little, or no, training is required and you still have the chance to walk off with a champion’s cup.

The sixth annual Gay Sports Day from British gay health charity GMFA and London pub institution the Royal Vauxhall Tavern returns on 27 August.