"Normally you have to go to a bar or a club that's for gay and lesbians and not so much in a mainstream place," Ms. Schwartz said.
Others, like Ed Sheeran, come from a rather more mainstream place.
Whenever I do a programme in mainstream places I say to people in the community: go, claim your place in these spaces, it's your taxes that are paying for them.
Try going to less mainstream places like Dots and Rainbows.
Though the people responsible were not aware of developments in the West Country, their thinking is much the same: as one newly elected councillor, Mike Dudley-Jones, tells me, "our basic mantra is that there is no place for mainstream party politics at this level".
North Korea is hardly a place for mainstream Internet access — the country has a reported 2 million mobile phone users but Internet access is reserved for government officials or other high-level positions — but this is a further step to shut the country off and restrict access to information.
The inventive and extraordinarily satisfying feature-film debut of the writer and director Jocelyn Moorhouse is so good that it provokes a question: Whatever happened to her? Her career trajectory in the years that followed seems to prove that the American mainstream movie establishment has no place for a woman capable of such beguiling and spare work.
Feeling beleaguered by mildew, Bernard and I set out for Le Chat Noir, the neighborhood's cabaret cum barroom, a place for experimental and mainstream theater and music.
There was no place for them in mainstream Hollywood, or none that they wanted, because they were proudly anti-Hollywood then, and remain proudly so today.
"Asylum-seeker children are not a threat to anybody, and the best place for them is mainstream schools," said Diane Abbott, the most widely known black member of the Commons.
