Once-crowded bars and clubs fear they will collapse, despite government grants, if they have to remain closed for a prolonged period and have to adopt social distancing when they re-open. It's where we form and nurture our community and the individuals within that,' said John Sizzle, a 'Drag DJ' who co-owns The Glory, an LGBT+ bar in east London known for its avant-garde cabaret acts.Ĭountries across the world are feeling the human and economic pain wrought by the coronavirus, which has infected 4.2 million people and killed almost 300,000, and is likely to trigger a global recession. That will leave gay, bisexual and transgender people with fewer safe spaces to express themselves freely, meet like-minded friends and find respite from the discrimination they often experience in their day-to-day lives, bar and club owners said.