Date: Thursday 22 March 2012
Location: Dalston Superstore, 117 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2PB
Location: Dalston Superstore, 117 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2PB
men as guests, women as guests, all welcome
The Dalston Superstore is an interesting bar to take in, being long and thin with strange sculptures on the walls and hanging from the ceiling. Exposed pipes along the roof give it an almost industrial feel while the silver disco ball in the corner adds a bit of glamour. The dance floor is downstairs only tonight it was off limits. I am here for the brand new and very exciting T Club. Unlike most of the clubs I go to with the proviso of ‘Men as guests’, tonight it was ‘Women as guests’.
The T Club is a fully inclusive night, so there was no real desire to turn women away at the door; rather it was a joke among friends which grew into an actual event. The T Club is a celebration of LGB and especially T, our forgotten friends at many a queer night. A lot of emphasis was put on making this night a safe space for all genders, with the security all chosen for their knowledge of the LGBT community. Even the toilets are unisex. It was an unknown and untested idea, but one that worked. Over 100 people walked through the door this night, with all having a good time.
When I first arrived there was still room to move, not for long however. Very quickly I was trapped in a little bubble of lesbians, unable to go anywhere due to the mass of people talking and dancing. Despite this I was still able to get served at the bar, a small miracle I was very appreciative of. All around me were trans people, lesbians, straight couples, mixed groups and East London types. It was so mixed it was difficult to know who was who. At one point I thought a girl was trying to chat me up, only it turned out she was there to support her young gay male friend. Even the music was mixed, with La Roux, Missy Elliot and Azealia Banks. There was even some Spoken Word earlier in the night.
All up it was a very successful night. If you want somewhere to go where politics or gender don’t matter, the next T Club is on the 19th April.
About the T Club
The T club was devised and created after an almost flippant facebook conversation between friends, after one of our friends, who is trans, was refused entry from a london club... one thing led to the other and i jokingly said, a T club, with women as guests? and it went from there and a considerate amount of support and understanding...
The T club however, is a club for trans, genderqueers and all in between with their women and men as guests... following the queen Bees avant garde attitude, it's a hub full of fun, mingling, dancing, performing watching and costume dressing for the T lovelies and their friends in a safe and queer environment.... simple in its complications and a disco with a difference...
celebrating gender diversity...
Feature by Ida Raine, 10 April 2012
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