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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