Lesbian friendly Silver Web
1982
"The Silver Web in Wolverhampton was very much frequented by lesbians, a good split crowd, 500 lesbians, and had shown me that there was gay women as well as men (wanting to use clubs). I don’t know what happened to the lesbian crowd in the 90s but in the 80s they were out there big style, ‘shouting their tits off and guzzling the beer down!’. Lesbians came from Staffordshire, Shropshire, to Wolverhampton and the Midlands, and it was easy to get there, they enjoyed tremendous support from the lesbian community. Wolverhampton played a big part in getting the clubs to get bigger and, as we got more commercial, there was business to be made from us, all of a sudden we got a voice, and I felt it was my place to take advantage of that and see what we could get. We were very fortunate, what we’ve got so far."
Contributed by: Bill Gavan, 56