Events tagged with "Partners"
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...
Brian Wigley
Brian Wigley aka 'Boxer' was a well respected figure on Birmingham's gay scene throughout the 80s and 90s. He was responsible for introducing innovative party nights to the Nightingale, such as beach themed nights. Brian was the prime mover in the fi...
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 ...
Glamourous
One of Birmingham's longest standing gay venues situated at the top end of Hurst Street in Albany House (built 1963), previously the Windmill, Partners and Enigma. Reopened in 2003 as Glamourous Showbar providing live drag shows every night of the w...
Partners Bar
Previously the Windmill, the bar was taken over by John Jeffries, aka jinks, Brian Wigley and Martin Healey in the summer of 1987, they traded under the Windmill name for a short while and then refurbished the bar, opening as Partners in October 198...
The Windmill
The Windmill became a gay bar in the 1970s, it later became Partners Bar...
Memories tagged with "Partners"
Closure of Lesbian and Gay Centre, Aston, '86
“It was really sad when the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre closed down. It existed for about three to four years with major funding from the then West Midlands County Council and then we lost the funding. No one had much commercial acumen also no o...
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...
Going to Nechells Green Gay Youth Group 1990s
"I did get introduced to the Gay Youth Group called the Gay and Lesbian Youth Group which was aimed at 16 - 25 year olds. It met at Nechells Community Centre on a Saturday between 11 and 2 and then we'd always go for a drink in Partners which is c...
Helping to organise the first Pride 1996
Trevor joined the Birmingham Pride committee (The Triangle Committee) in November 1996, which was set up to organise the first Pride in May 1997. Trevor was the Secretary; there were about ten people involved on the executive committee and they broug...
Impressions of the Scene 1986
Mike discussed his impressions of the differences between Manchester and Birmingham in terms of the things he would value. "Well both of the cities have changed an awful lot in the time since 1990, that's for sure but I think that Birmingham's change...
Lack of disabled access c2007
Trevor, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, talks about the lack of disabled access c.2007Trevor states, “Even now there are only three or four venues that are accessible to me. I can’t get into Angels, The Village or Partners. I can get into The ...
Massive change in Village since 1990
Mike described the change in the social side in Birmingham since 1990. He felt that there had been a "massive change", referring again to the "two gay basement bars (The Jester and one gay club (Nightingale)" around when he first arrived in 1987, alt...
Men only at the Gale was old-fashioned for '87
Mike also said: "One of the things that I did notice when I came here (late 80s) was that there was a real demarcation between where men socialised and where women socialised. Women tended to go to Partners whereas The Jester was almost exclusively m...
Pubs/Clubs at the time - 1992
"At that time a lot of pubs were still knock on the door. You could walk into Partners. The Jester was up Holloway Head, and is one of the oldest gay pubs in Birmingham; I think it's renamed now. There's a police station above it and it's opposite...
The Windmill to Partners
The Windmill became a gay bar. Near there was a couple of places that were notorious. “The roof of the car park opposite was a rabid place for queens. The rent boys would hang on the steps of the car park. They could see Queensway behind them, the ...