The Way Out Club opened to celebration in 1993 with Frances McKevitt treating the crowd to a fearsome guitar solo.
Twenty years on and Frances will be opening the show again as the Way Out Club celebrate their spectacular second decade, except this time Frances is now a busty full time transwoman and so are her Frockabilly band. They will be joined on stage by many of the Way Out Club’s favourite performers and the show will also feature the glamour and transcendence that the Way Out Club is famous for!
For those who don’t know, the club is no longer in its original venue, as they moved to a superb new space in January of this year. View it at its very best on the twentieth birthday bash, where you shall have a glass of champagne frothing and ready for you at the door. Many travellers come from across the globe just to visit this unique nightclub and if you’ve never set foot through its doors, it’s worth a look at least, whether you are a transsexual admirer or not.
Having been running for over twenty years that is over 1,000 Saturdays of not just dancing and entertaining, but celebrating individual uniqueness and the diversity of age, race, culture, sexuality and, most importantly for this club, gender. The word transgender arrived in the dictionary in those two decades, the ‘T’ was added to LGB, and through the Way Out doors the founder, Vicky Lee, has welcomed once nervous cross-dressers, transvestites, transsexuals and slightly bemused drag-queens who have left more happy with themselves, each other, confident in their lifestyle and the community that WayOut celebrates under the ‘transgender umbrella’.
And that is definitely something to celebrate!
• The Way Out Club is at Abbey Bar, 33 Minories, City of London, EC3N 1DD. Their twentieth birthday party is on Saturday 20th April, with the show at 1am.
