Events tagged with "King's Heath"
Birmingham localities and the gay population
Gays are everywhere. There is no doubt that, representing 6% of the population, at 2008 levels, some 60,000 gay people live within the Birmingham City Council boundaries alone. But there is evidence that, once lesbians and gay men can exert some elem...
City Centre
There has always been a large residential population in central Birmingham with several large post war housing estates, such as Lee Bank and Ladywood proving popular choices for gay people over the years due to their convenient location for accessing...
King's Heath
A popular residential area, particularly with lesbians, several hostelries in King's Heath became popular women's meeting places in the 70s and 80s. ...
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 "King's Heath"
The Old Moseley Arms
Bridget said “The biggest meeting place round here (King's Heath) was the Old Moseley Arms - the ‘Old Mo’ which was quite amazing really – in the public bar at the front, were prostitutes, tramps, alcoholics, police drinking, and a huge lesbian cl...