Events tagged with "Fox"
ArtPride
In November 2005 Becky Tebbett gathered a group of women artists who wanted an opportunity to work together, and the means to display their work, and 'ArtPride' was born. During May Bank Holiday weekend, the first Artpride took place during Birmingha...
Deaf Lesbians and Gay Men
There are a significant number of Deaf lesbians and gay men in Birmingham, coming together variously as the Deaf Lesbian Group (1990s), Central Rainbow (2000s) and also the BSL Signing Group which has met at The Fox for a number of years, and which i...
Disability
Individual lesbian and gay people’s identity is about more than their sexuality. Sadly, members of minority groups have not always found acceptance within the LGB community. Disabled lesbians and gay men face double disadvantage, including homo...
The Fox
The Fox is a predominantly womens bar on Lower Essex Street, although men are more than welcome. Run by Andy King and Hilli Rishworth. More to follow shortly..........
Women's access to bars
Pre 1960s Prior to the 1960s, and well into the 1970s there appears to have been very little opportunity indeed for lesbians to get together openly in a social or public space. All the bars noted as being popular with the gay crowd in the 40s and 50...
Memories tagged with "Fox"
Becky Tebbett's Lesbos epiphany creates ArtPride
Becky Tebbett is an artist. She explained the background to ArtPride. "ArtPride is a group of women that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgendered anything like that come together because there's are a lot of creative people, creative ...
Boot Women not missed a month since 1993
Inge was one of the initiators of Boot Women, a walking group for lesbians. “I remember the discussions, upstairs at the Old Mo, years after the pub was no longer lesbian, we got together on a Tuesday, just a few friends and it just came out of an id...
Deaf group at the Fox
Belinda said "My contact with ‘the scene’ since the nineties has been limited to playing in the band (The Cuckoo's Nest) at lesbian events and occasionally dropping in at the Fox, I like it because they run a Deaf BSL signing group on a Thursday and ...
Hilli's first impressions of the Fox
Hilli was working in the Nightingale and in 1994 was invited to help with managing The Fox but turned it down; she wasn’t very comfortable in The Fox as it was very clique ridden. She enrolled in a British Sign Language course which was being held in...
How it started
Trevor talks about the Mature Gay Men's Group. “We had friends in Bearwood and we used to go to town a lot but really there was nothing for us, most of the gay crowd from my day had stopped coming into town, it was all kids, all loud music, we used t...
I was voted best Bar Person in whole UK in 2008!
“On Tuesday 18th March (2008) I was invited along to the Publican awards in London, and I was voted the winner in the Bar Person awards for the whole of the UK and Ireland; it is truly the most wonderful honour as it's the highest achievement within ...
Making the Fox friendlier
Hilli said she wanted to make The Fox a more friendly venue. She started to organise entertainment, and won awards e.g. Best Lesbian Bar. The Fox started to attract a wider range of people, with the pub becoming more of a community venue, and less of...
More choices for lesbians in town 1996 onwards
“By the mid 1990s things were starting to happen in town (the gay village area). I remember going to the Fox in about 1996/7 before it had become a women's bar, but it was vaguely turning into a gay bar, it was just on the edge. Angels might be there...
No age division in the 80s
“When I was in my early twenties (in the 80s) the women I was mixing with were in their twenties and thirties and a few in their forties and fifties. There were a lot of older lesbians around, in their forties, who are still around now but don’t part...
Not on the scene so much, 2008
“A lot of women who were around are still around but not socially on the scene, though I still occasionally go to the Fox, and I am involved in Birmingham Pride Community Trust and Gay Birmingham Remembered. I have still got friends from that era, we...
Taking over The Fox
Andy took over the license at The Fox in December 1997. It was already established as a ’girl’ bar run by two guys Tony and Jim, and, he says, has been a lesbian bar for at least 30 years. The back room was initially the dyke bar. Andy states he took...