The gay scene collaborated for the first time
1983
For Five Days of Fun, local businesses all co-operated, including the Nightingale, The Windmill, The Grosvenor, The Jester and The Victoria. They all agreed to mutually promote each other. The pubs would have the business early on in the evening and the clubs would have such later on in the evening. The main theme was balloons and they filled up the club with 1500 helium filled balloons in the ceiling. On the Sunday afternoon of Five Days of Fun, they had an ‘It’s a Knockout Competition’ in the garden of the Grosvenor.
“It was the first time businesses had collaborated.”
Contributed by: John Jeffries aka jinks, 60