No women members at clubs 1970s
1975
Basically all the gay venues, of which
there weren’t many, were men. “You had to be signed in, you couldn’t
get membership. We tried all through the sixties to get membership, and
there was just no way. When the Nightingale moved to Thorp Street,
women were finally allowed membership as a right. Up till then you had
to be signed in, and the same with the Grosvenor right into the
seventies when they decided they’d give women membership.”
Contributed by: Pam Hudson, 63