Memories by Michael Dunn
A gay wilderness
Birmingham as I recall, as far back as 1957, was a gay wilderness, in so much as the new comer to town only made inroads on the scene, if he was known by someone who had already made it. This was because of the very strict laws and the taboo of being...
The Nightingale was born
After the ‘Queen Victoria’ closed, there was a barren period in Birmingham in respect of club life. ‘La’ (Laurie Williams) approached me one night in the Imperial Bar and told me he had found a backer who wanted to put up the cash to start a gay memb...
Vinegar Tits
in the Imperial Hotel Bar there were two old biddies behind the bar, one was Molly a charmer and the other was known as Vinegar Tits (Eadie) she was a right bitch, if you kept treating her to Gins you were the greatest, but otherwise she had the tong...