Just opening today ( and running until Jan 25th) “Reunion 79:21 – Revisiting Black Queer London Clubland” at the Great Pulteney Street (GPS) Gallery in Soho. This fashionably brief exhibition explores Black queer nightlife in the British capital between 1979 and 2021 through photography by veteran lensmen Dave Swindells and Jason Manning, film and memorabilia from public and private sources.

It contextualizes the development of London Black queer nightlife amid a cyclone of impacts, including racial exclusion or invisibility, homophobia, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and gentrification and soaring rents, which blurred the Black queer presence in the big picture of both LGBTQ and Black histories.