Events tagged with "Jo Joes"
Jo Joes Picket
On Friday 18th August 1995 members of the gay community picketed the newly opened Jo Joes bar on Smallbrook Queensway. They demanded fair access after local Drag Queens were refused entry and three lesbian members of staff had been dismissed after on...
Route 66
Opened in February 1994, a large bar on Hurst Street, formerly a straight nightclub called Rockwells, hence the large 'R' above the door. Owners Bass Breweries decided to turn it into a gay bar in the early 1990s and it reopened as Route 66. This is ...
Memories tagged with "Jo Joes"
A straight lad in Tin Tins
"Then through various people that we met then we started going to other clubs, Tin Tins, or some of the bars, Jo Joes on Smallbrook Queensway. I don't know if you'd categorise it (Jo-Joes) as a gay bar, but there were certainly gay and lesbian member...