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Now, this is news. I mean, people died and everything, but this - this - is good old fashioned hard news.

London's thriving lesbian and gay scene will open its doors Friday night, in a show of defiance against Thursday's terrorist atrocities.

The capital's major clubs and bars will open their doors, with the majority of promoters and owners saying they will be pushing for "business as usual."

At Heaven, in the heart of the capital at Charing Cross, organizers of the new Bang night said they had contemplated postponing the launch out of respect, but felt they had to go on.

"We've just to get on with it," promotions manager Gavin Nicholls told Gay.com U.K.

"We were considering shutting the night down, but that's what those behind the attacks would have wanted. That way they would have won," he said.

Which just goes to show you that without a place for queers to get drunk and bang, the terrorists would have won. No one tell Jerry Falwell - his head will explode.