The Daily Beast
Secrets of the Gateways, the Most Famous Lesbian Club in the World
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Courtesy Gateways Grind/EverettFor 50 years, down an unassuming side street in the exclusive borough of Chelsea, West London, “the bohemian hung out, the artists drank—and naughty sex happened.” So explains former Great British Baking Show host Sandi Toksvig in a new film, Gateways Grind, a documentary that charts life behind closed doors at the longest running lesbian club of all time—and, as Toksvig says, “the most famous lesbian club in the
