Events tagged with "Glamourous"
Birmingham Pride
Birmingham hosted the first Birmingham Pride festival in 1997 and has held the event annually since. The first event was organised by a group of business and community volunteers called the Birmingham Triangle CommitteeThe roots of the event can be t...
Drag Queens
A Drag queen is usually a man who dresses, or "drags", in female clothes and make-up for special occasions and usually because they are performing or entertaining as a hostess, stage artist or at an event.Drag performances have been a staple of cabar...
Five Days of Fun
Five Days of Fun, also known as 'Gay Brum'. The annual event took place for five days over the August Bank Holiday, the first taking place in 1983. Teams from different community and commercial ventures took part in 'It's a knockout' type games. The ...
Memories tagged with "Glamourous"
Gay scene in the 90s
There was the Jester, Village, Route 66, Partners (then Enigma, which they later bought to become Glamourous Showbar). There were half a dozen bars, 2 -3 clubs, (before the days of Missing and DV8). “On my first trip to Nightingale, someone grabbed m...
Glamourous a hit
Pedro’s idea was to create it theatre style with stage, curtains and lighting. They got the keys on Monday, closed for three days and did a complete refit, ripped out seating booths, put in the DJ station, extended the stage, added new lights. They h...
It's a Knockout
"Birmingham's "Five Days of Fun" originated in the Grosvenor house Hotel. It was the Grosvenor against the Nightingale, I think when that happened, the Nightingale was still in Aston (pre-1981). This became the precursor to Pride, so the Grosvenor st...
Why we sold Glamourous
Paul and Pedro decided to sell Glamourous because of Pedro’s health. Paul explained that “He’s always dancing and smiling but he has a longstanding spinal injury and the pain has spread to his legs and neck. In August he had to pull out of a show and...