London

===LGBT scene===
{{main|LGBT culture in London}}
The first [[gay bar]] in London in the modern sense was [[The Cave of the Golden Calf]], established as a night club in an underground location at 9 Heddon Street, just off [[Regent Street]], in 1912 and "which developed a reputation for sexual freedom and tolerance of same-sex relations."<ref>{{Cite book|title=London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885–1914 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)|author=Matt Cook|isbn=978-0521089807|date=6 November 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press |url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/londoncultureofh00matt|page=120}}</ref> 
[[File:Comptons-Of-Soho.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Comptons of Soho]] during [[Pride in London|London Pride]] in 2010]]
While London has been an LGBT tourism destination, after [[Sexual Offences Act 1967|homosexuality was decriminalised]] in England in 1967 gay bar culture became more visible, and from the early 1970s [[Soho]] (and in particular [[Old Compton Street]]) became the centre of the [[LGBT culture in London|London LGBT community]].<ref name="Olson"/> [[G-A-Y]], previously based at the [[London Astoria|Astoria]], and now [[Heaven (nightclub)|Heaven]], is a long-running night club.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 November 2019 |title=Forty years of sheer Heaven at the London superclub |url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/30/40-years-of-sheer-heaven-london-gay-superclub |access-date=25 August 2022 |work=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>

Wider British cultural movements have influenced LGBT culture: for example, the emergence of [[glam rock]] in the UK in the early 1970s, via [[Marc Bolan]] and [[David Bowie]], saw a generation of teenagers begin playing with the idea of androgyny, and the West End musical ''[[The Rocky Horror Show]]'', which debuted in London in 1973, is also widely said to have been an influence on countercultural and sexual liberation movements.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 September 2015 |title=We Live in the World 'Rocky Horror' Created |language=en-US |work=Flavorwire |url=http://flavorwire.com/539534/we-live-in-the-world-rocky-horror-created |access-date=22 May 2017}}</ref> The [[Blitz Kids]] (which included [[Boy George]]) frequented the Tuesday club-night at Blitz in [[Covent Garden]], helping launch the [[New Romantic]] subcultural movement in the late 1970s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theblitzkids.com/site_archive/theblitzkids/menuboy.html |title=Boy George |publisher=The Blitz Kids |access-date=30 June 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830193512/http://theblitzkids.com/site_archive/theblitzkids/menuboy.html |archive-date=30 August 2011 }}</ref> Today, the annual [[Pride in London|London Pride Parade]] and the [[London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival]] are held in the city.<ref name="Olson">Olson, Donald. ''London for Dummies'' (Volume 136 of Dummies Travel). [[John Wiley & Sons]], 2 February 2010. 6th Edition. {{ISBN|0470619651}}, 9780470619650. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vrayaSsuQbUC&pg=PA67 67].</ref>