Gay Birmingham Remembered

First Gay Bar, The Imperial

1962

"I first went to my first gay bar, the Imperial Hotel, in Temple Street when I was 13, in 1962. There was one opposite, called the Trocadero. If you were a smart queen you went to the Imperial, if you wanted a bit of rough you went over the road to the 'Troc'".

Contributed by: Keith Campbell, 58

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