30/04/19: On 30th April, the community came together to remember those that were lost in an act of terror inside the Admiral Duncan 20 years before. Looking back at a dark moment in Old Compton’s history, our day was spent sifting through newspaper clippings from that day, covered in disturbing images of distraught queer people crawling out of the rubble and trying to comfort each other in the face atrocity. Two decades later, it was a very different scene outside the Duncan as people united in bright colours to remember the three lives lost in the attack. A bustling crowd had gathered to not only commemorate those lives but to celebrate how far we’d come. “Sing if you’re glad to be gay” chimed the Gay Men’s Chorus before we stood shoulder-to-shoulder, marching over to St Anne’s Gardens on Wardour Street. In the face of hatred, Soho’s diverse community of queer people and allies came together to give it a brightly coloured middle finger.
Admiral Duncan, 54 Old Compton St, Soho W1D 4UB
Photos by Zefrographica
