A straight lad in Tin Tins
1995
"Then through various people that we met then we started going to other clubs, Tin Tins, or some of the bars, Jo Joes on Smallbrook Queensway. I don't know if you'd categorise it (Jo-Joes) as a gay bar, but there were certainly gay and lesbian members of staff and clientele and was a pre-club bar for Tin Tins.
45When I first went (to Tin Tins), that was the most visible sort of experience of a gay club, I remember walking in, to the top of the stairs, there was a cage with people dancing in it, a lad dancing in it with his top off and wearing a pair of hot-pants and a feather boa, I'd never seen anything like that, and although I was a little bit taken aback, it illustrated quite quickly to me that it was a place where people could be themselves and have a good time."
Contributed by: Mark1, 30