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The Gateways is back. 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 lea...

Jagger (pictured in 1969), who lived in Chelsea with his girlfriend Marianne Faithful, wanted to get in to The Gateways club a few streets away, but was denied entry by manager Gina Ware.

A new documentary takes viewers back down the rickety stairs to the trailblazing Gateways in Chelsea