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April 2018

Into More – 6th April 2018 – These Activists Are Fighting for London’s LGBTQ Spaces

March 2018

Evening Standard – 2nd March 2018 – London’s first community run LGBTQI+ pub could open in 2018

Gscene – James Ledward – 25th March 2018 – Friends of Joiners Arms win ‘Best Community Campaign’  award

February 2018

Dazed – 25th February 2018 – The Joiners Arms is coming back as the first community-run LGBTQI+ pub

Planet Nation – 24th February 2018 – ‘Why I’m supporting the Friends of the Joiners Arms and you should too’

Hackney Citizen – Andrew Barnes – 15th February 2018 – Joiners Arms: community meetings announced as plans for new LGBTQI+ pub/hub take shape

Out News Global – Danielle Mustarde – 13th February 2018 – Project launched to open London’s first community-run LGBTQI+ pub

GCN – Katie Donohoe – 13th February 2018 – Closed Iconic Queer Pub To Re-Open As London’s First Community-Run LGBT+ Pub

November 2017

LGC Plus – 24th November 2017 – Idea Exchange: We’re the first council to use planning powers to save an LGBT venue

October 2017

East London Lines – 19th October 2017 – Joiners Arms replacement must stay open late, council rules

Talk Radio – Amy Southall – 13th October 2017 – Iconic London gay bar must stay standing for 25 years, council rules

Local Gov – Mark Whitehead – 13th October 2017 – Council rules new development must include LGBT nightclub

The Guardian – Rupert Neate – 12th October 2017 – Joiners Arms redevelopment must include LGBT nightclub, council rules

Planet Nation – 12th October 2017 – Friends of The Joiners Arms Celebrates Winning Landmark Campaign

Tower Hamlets Council – 12th October 2017 – LGBTQ+ venue on the site of Joiners Arms to re-open with extended hours

Left Foot Forward – Charlotte England – 12th October 2017 – London LGBT venue wins unprecedented victory against property developers

Vice – Amelia Abraham – 12th October 2017 – East London’s Most-Loved Gay Bar Has Been Saved From Developers

Hackney Citizen – 12th October 2017 – Joiners Arms campaigners celebrate ‘landmark’ ruling for iconic LGBT pub

Mix Mag – Jim Ottewill – 4th October 2017 – Oppose the developers: London is fighting to protect its LGBTQ+ clubs

The Financial Times – Justine Simmons – 3rd October 2017 – How culture moved beyond the fringe and became central in London

August 2017

The Guardian – Letter by Amy Robert co-chair of FOTJA – 9th August 2017 – We fear the Joiners Arms proposal is a Trojan horse draped in a rainbow flag

Gay Times –  Lewis Corner – 8th August 2017 – Joiners Arms campaigners reject developer’s ‘landmark planning condition’

I-D – Alim Kheraji – 8th August 2017 – Queer venue must open on the site of the historic LGBTQ pub the Joiners Arms

QX Magazine – Dylan Jones – 8th August 2017 – People are questioning the “landmark planning condition” that promises to keep The Joiners’ site an LGBTQ space

The Docklands & East London Advertiser – Alex Shaw – 8th August 2017 – No LGBT pub, no deal’ Tower Hamlets Council tells developers

BBC News – 6th August 2017 – Joiners Arms development ‘must include LGBT venue’

Breitbart – Victoria Friedman – 6th August 2017 – London Developers Told Apartment Complex MUST Include Gay Bar

Pink News – Meka Beresford – 6th August 2017 – Developers ordered to reopen legendary London LGBT bar

Gay Star News – Jamie Tabberer – 6th August 2017 – London gay bar development must include an LGBTI space, in first of its kind planning permission

Evening Standard – Sean Morrison – 5th August 2017 – Redevelopment of well-loved Joiners Arms pub will only be granted if LGBT venue is included

The Telegraph – Nicola Harley – 5th August 2017 – Luxury flat development of legendary London gay bar must include LGBT pub, planners say *

Daily Mail – Charlie Moore – 5th August 2017 – London council planners insist a new block of flats must have a gay bar as a condition of the development – and they will send workers there to check it is ‘LGBT-friendly’ enough *

My So Called Gay Life – 4th August 2017 – Only if it’s includes gay venue on site, then you get your planning permission *

The Guardian – Rupert Neate – 4th August 2017 – You must include gay venue on site of Joiners Arms, planners tell developers *

*A few of these articles are misleading, the planning conditions agreed did not include a clause that the Mayor’s officer would assess if the venue was ‘sufficiently gay enough’. Additionally, despite being depicted as an overwhelming success for FOTJA within the press, at this point it was clear to us that the concessions within the application were inadequate, hindering the pubs original role for the community as a late-night venue and its commercial viability through the early licensing hours proposed. With advice from planning experts, existing LGBTQ venue operators, the Campaign for Real Ale, and lawyers, we continued in our opposition as the agreement offered no secure protection of the LGBTQ status of the proposed venue, allowed the developer to dictate all terms of the lease with minimal oversight, and thus further prevented the viability of an LGBTQ venue becoming established on the site. See Amy Roberts’ response to the Guardian article.

May 2017

Hackney Citizen – Andrew Barnes – 18th May 2017 – Legendary gay pub The Joiners Arms “back in business” with events on Hackney Road

March 2017

Timeout – 20th March 2015 – Friends of the Joiners Arms are leading a march to save Soho

January 2017

Attitude – 21st January 2017 – ‘Campaigners to protest two year closure of LGBT East London pub’

Pink News – Joseph Patrick McCormick – 20th January 2017 – Protesters to remember the closure of London gay pub the Joiners Arms

The Gay UK – January 2017 – Campaigners plan protest outside Joiners Arms two years after it closed

January 2015

Vice – Rebecca Zephyr Thomas – 8th January 2015 – Photographing the Faces of the Best Gay Bar in London

The Docklands & East London Advertiser – Mike Brooke – 16th January 2015 – ‘Friends’ join up with Tower Hamlets to save Joiners’ Arms gay pub

November 2014

Dazed – Zing Tzjeng – 6th November 2014 – The Joiners Arms: goodbye to all that

Vice- Cliff Joannou – 4th November 2014 – The Joiners’ Arms is Closing and It’s a Travesty

ID – Paul Flynn – 6th November 2014 – Remembering the Joiners Arms

Miscellaneous Pre-Friends of the Joiners Arms

The Ransom Note – East London’s Joiners Arms is forced out by developers

Newham Recorder – Alistair Kleebauer – 29th November 2013 – Pay London City Airport cleaners the Living Wage, say campaigners

Time Out – 20th June 2012 – Joiners Arms

QX Magazine – 9th May 2012 – Joiners Arms 15th Birthday

The Docklands & East London – 27th January 2011 – Shoreditch pub fights back against VAT hike

The Guardian – Sam Jones – 22nd October 2009 – Trafalgar Square death raises homophobia fears

BBC News – Andy Dangerfield – 21st October 2009 – Homophobic crime rise in London

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