Is East Dulwich really this Straight?

[mattindulwich18]

I have lived in East Dulwich now for nearly six months but I am yet to really explore it. I am surprised that there is not at least one gay bar in East Dulwich considering the amount of straight venues there are on Lordship Lane. I am not against going into straight pubs but it would be nice to have a meeting place away from the gay ghettos of Soho and Vauxhall. There is surely enough gay/lesbian people in the area to have a gay bar.

[TillieTrotter]

Hi Matt, If you pop into the lounge, go to Page 2, there is a thread there headed Gay Girlies. There have been quite a few gay people posting there with the same view as yourself.

Good Luck

[mattindulwich18]

Hi Tillie,

I cant find that thread!!!

[Mark]

here it is and there's also the thread entitled gay East Dulwich

[badger]

hehe we're planning some rainbow drinks next week i think. keep look a out in the lounge if interested...

[mattindulwich18]

Lounge?

[Mark]

The Lounge, it's an area of this website where people can relax and chat about anything that's not necessarily East Dulwich related.

[Louisa]

Straight bars/Gay bars music venues boutiques three wheeled prams yummies ARGHHHHHHHHHH

HELP ME!!!

[*Bob*]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Straight bars/Gay bars music venues boutiques

> three wheeled prams yummies ARGHHHHHHHHHH

>

> HELP ME!!!

I know.. great, innit?!

ED is dead. Long live ED!

[snorky]

Can we revive the Pool thread and jazz it up by proposing that wednesday should be gay night ?

[Louisa]

"Welcome to the unrealistic and fictional land of ED circa 2007... unlike anywhere else in the UK, it manages to sustain a community of ex claphamites who were forced out of the slightly plusher areas of west London, and a whole host of overpriced independent boutiques and coffee shops which most people up and down the land wouldnt bother wasting their money in.. " God it was all a dream... wipes brow.. :))

[*Bob*]

What about a gay jazz night, with live swing from local beat combo 'The Organics'?

Prada sunglasses guarantees entry.

[Mark]

Whatever next? Before you know it there'll be East Dulwich postcards!

[*Bob*]

For me, it all started going wrong when they stopped running trams, women got the vote and the polio vaccine came in. Bring back the good old days.

[Louisa]

I wonder if the rest of the UK could have a day in ED or one of her newly aquired step sister towns like Clapham or Fulham, and see how these people live... I imagine they would be laughing their heads off.. I cant imagine a yummy walking up and down Huddersfield popping into gregs to buy half a dozen chelsea buns and a sausage roll can you?

[Mark]

> ...if the rest of the UK could have a day in ED

blimey, it'll be rammed, there'd be no chance of getting a seat in the EDT on that day I bet.

[SeanMacGabhann]

In the last few months I have been to

Sheffield

Cork (rural and city)

Devon

And I can honestly say that life there is pretty much as in ED - new bars, over priced gift shops, coffee-shop this, organic-that

So I don't think ED is some outpost the rest of the country would find odd...

[*Bob*]

I think Louisa may have been born in the wrong century.

[MadWorld74]

Louisa,

Why are you living in ED when you seem to slate it so much....?

[SeanMacGabhann]

Now there's a questions that could go wrong...I suspect Louisa has lived here all her life and sees no need to move out. It is we who are the arrivistes...

[MadWorld74]

Yes, I imagine you are right. We are the nasty infiltrators with our smug boutique shops. Bad us!

[Keef]

But whether you lived somewhere all your life or not, if it's making you that unhappy, surely you'd move......

I'm not saying you should move Louisa, but interested to know if you've considered it?

[*Bob*]

Moaning about ED on the forum is Louisa's hobby..

A girl's gotta have something to do before 'Trisha' starts.

[mockney piers]

To echo Sean in one of the other overlapping complaint threads, it's not East Dulwich that's changed, it's the whole bloomin' country. For ED read Letchworth, Brighton, Beverly; I bet you even Cleethorpes has coffee shops and maybe even a Tex Mex these days.

If louisa wants traditional victorian values I believe children in indentured work, polio and cholera is still quite popular in India.

[mumra]

And I know someone in Hull with a 3 wheeler pram...

Whoops jumping on bandwagons again. Must do some work.