Gay Birmingham Remembered

Abused by the police

1996

"At the time Digbeth Police Station was quite notorious about cruising this area and always arresting a couple of gay people at the weekend, who would be physically and mentally abused. There used to be a meat wagon, blacked out, with six or ten police officers sitting in it, singing YMCA and making fun of people outside gay clubs and we had no rights."

Contributed by: Bill Gavan, 56

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