In the basement of one of Hackney’s trendiest hotels ( Ace Hotel, Shoreditch) is the club night Hard Cock Life – a mostly-male hip-hop night. Hackney, for example, is taking on increasing importance as a new kind of gaybourhood: where LGBT establishments aren’t ghettoised but dispersed among other businesses. London has seen gay clubbing events spread out from the centre over the last decade. Born to perform … Amy Grimehouse night at Sutton House.