The crackdown on Gay Village ‘darkroom intercourse’ that campaigners say is a component of the bid to gentrify Canal Street
‘Through the top down there is certainly an idea to push the seedier side out of things while making the Village a Disneyland pastiche of exactly just exactly what it absolutely was’

The ongoing future of fetish evenings within the Gay Village is under hazard because of a line throughout the legality of consensual intercourse in ‘darkrooms’.
Organisers have now been tangled up in a struggle with authorities and council authorities during the last 6 months but state they will have reached an impasse.
In addition they think force from regional authorities is component of a wider campaign to ‘sanitise and gentrify’ the Village. […]