By Slanted Light

Coincidentally, and I quite forgot to mention it, the GNRT is quietly and matter-of-factly an LGBT-friendly pub and has been for quite some time now. Last time I was there for music (which is quite a while back!) there were a few same-sex couples dancing in the crowd, and when we were there the other day there were two gender-nonconforming young people in the loos when I was in there (one of them was noticeably nervous about my reaction, as I'm not a regular there so they might have been worried I was going to get up-in-arms and squawk about their being in the ladies, so we exchanged a brief moment of very small small-talk over the hand-basins just to establish that everything was all bog-standard-courtesies-and-gripe-about-London all round).
Seems that many or even most of the architecturally attractive proper pubs in London are a bit gastropub these days, I suppose they have to, to make the rent. Not complaining about the increased choice of beers, though!