A gay club about to open on Sydney’s Oxford Street has been forced to change its name after community outrage about its marketing towards young gay men, despite being named after a song by lesbian singer Chappell Roan.

Michael Lewis, who runs gay club Palms on Oxford Street, plans to open another club in December with owner Kevin Du-Val called Pink Pony on the site of the former venue Two 3 One.

However, members of Sydney’s lesbian community told the Herald the club’s pandering towards men while using the name Pink Pony, a lesbian anthem, felt “hurtful” and “distasteful”.

“It’s pretty distasteful to take the term Pink Pony Club … from probably the most well-recognised lesbian pop star in the world right now and apply it to a venue that, from the get-go, has been explicitly described a

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