{"id":2273,"date":"2021-12-17T19:58:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishartnetwork.org.uk\/?post_type=britartuncanon&#038;p=2273"},"modified":"2022-01-17T10:35:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T10:35:56","slug":"threatened-but-resilient","status":"publish","type":"britartuncanon","link":"https:\/\/britishartnetwork.org.uk\/britishartuncanon\/threatened-but-resilient\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cthreatened but resilient\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/britishartnetwork.org.uk\/membership\/members\/ryan-kearney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Ryan Kearney<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>From Victoria Centre flats \u2013 also known as Fairy Towers or Vaseline Villas by queer residents \u2013 The New Foresters, Nottingham\u2019s only LGBTQI+ space, sits east. A city of three hundred thousand from where I write this text.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My hometown of Birmingham\u2019s Gay Village lies fifty-something miles southwest, in a flux of closure since the 1970s. Four out of sixteen spaces have closed since 2019, with more expected due to residential developments responding to HS2, a new high-speed railway that will reduce journey times to the capital by a whopping 32-minutes. A further hundred-or-so miles southeast \u2013 transiting the line that will make Birmingham a commuter city \u2013 nearly sixty per cent of London\u2019s queer venues have closed since 2011. Casualties of redevelopment, accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This banner was held by demonstrators outside The Joiners Arms, a queer pub in East London that was purchased and closed by property developers in 2015. Emblematic of the realities facing many community spaces, the Friends of the Joiners Arms formed to combat closure and successfully campaigned for the venue to be recognised as an Asset of Community Value. This recognition led Tower Hamlets Council to grant permission for the site to be developed, under the condition that a queer pub was included with a lease of 25-years and late-night licensing hours mirroring the original venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tracing queer geographies reveals communities that are threatened but resilient \u2013 set in motion to occupy and rebuild meaningful space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>January 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2274,"template":"","artistormaker":[],"period":[166],"medium":[186],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cthreatened but resilient\u201d - British Art Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/britishartnetwork.org.uk\/britishartuncanon\/threatened-but-resilient\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cthreatened but resilient\u201d - British Art Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ryan Kearney From Victoria Centre flats \u2013 also known as Fairy Towers or Vaseline Villas by queer residents \u2013 The New Foresters, Nottingham\u2019s only LGBTQI+ space, sits east. 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