The longest-running lesbian club of all-time - the one whose actual clientele appeared in the 1968 film The Killing of Sister George the one where Mick Jagger tried to talk the owner into letting him crash in a frock the one that was a sanctuary to every class and sort of woman, from well-known figures such as the writer Patricia Highsmith and the artist Maggi Hambling (then an art student) to swimming-pool attendants at the Tooting Bec lido - has been given a new lease of life in the first full-length documentary film to celebrate its history, and ensure that it is not erased.īehind a dull green door on the corner of King’s Road and Bramerton Street in Chelsea, down some rickety steps to the basement lay the dive, a former strip club.
