South London's own Lesbian & FLINTA Bar. Monthly Saturday nights rooted in community: building a bar in South London together. Inspired by the Parisian Lesbian and Queer bar in the 1920’s - La Monocle is dedicated to the artists, poets, writers, musicians, and creatives in South London today.
Our team has chosen to feminize the subject of the originally masculine “Le Monocle” to “La Monocle” to challenge and reinterpret language in the same way gender and queerness was subverted and redefined by the original guests of the bar. French is a language with a deeply ingrained gender binary in its grammatical structure. We have consciously chosen to use ‘La Monocle’ as it embraces and mirrors the challenging of gender and sexuality norms by the frequents of the bar.
La Monocle will be popping up during evenings in South London every month, alongside a selection of unique FLINTA sellers. All of our evenings help fund the opening of our own bar, built by the community of FLINTA South London.
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