Events tagged with "Internet"
Internet
The Internet has revolutionised the way people communicate, interact and meet. Since the mid 90s with the abundance of cheap home computers and improved speed and access to the internet a proliferation of online dating, chat and meeting places have s...
Telecom Tower
Birmingham's tallest structure, the Telecom Tower (formerly GPO Tower), Constructed between 1963 and 1966, its cavernous foundations were a popular haunt for gay men as early as the 1970s. Sitting on top of the Farmers Bridge Locks, which until recen...
Memories tagged with "Internet"
Gaydar and its influence on Gay Culture
Rob Gibb talks about Gaydar and its influence on gay culture 'the Internet essentially, when the kind of Gaydar stuff kicked in about 1997/8, that had an effect on how you meet people. Rather than meeting someone face to face in a bar or a sauna, you...
The internet and other media
Jamie "I met my first man on Teletext. When I first started using the Internet I planned to meet someone at a Virgin Megastore in Bristol and he never turned up so that put me off the whole thing. When I came for the interview in Birmingham I used th...