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East London gay pub on Commercial Road in Limehouse.
A long-running gay pub on Commercial Road in Limehouse. Also known as BJ's White Swan. Comedian Michael Barrymore came out on stage here; Ian McKellen was a regular after his own coming out. Downstairs there's a basement nightclub. The programming is deliberately old-school: Sunday Tea Dances draw an older crowd for waltz and tango. Wednesday is an amateur strip contest around midnight. Friday and Saturday nights run strippers or drag followed by chart music and dancing until 3am. Piano singalongs and bingo fill out the calendar. The crowd is working-class East Enders and Essex regulars — cheerful, rowdy, and the opposite of Soho polish.
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