Events tagged with "SLAG"
Patrick Edwards aka Black Pat or Bula
Patrick Edwards or Black Pat aka Bula was one of the most well known and liked characters on the Birmingham gay scene. Of Afro-Caribbean descent, Pat was raised in Handsworth. Black Pat had a long association with the Nightingale Club where he was th...
SLAG - Straight Lesbian And Gay club night
Straight Lesbian and Gay SLAG was a club night at the Steering Wheel club promoted by veteran promoter 'Black Pat' or 'Bula'. The Friday dance night was hosted by Twiggy. The club's ethos captured the tolerant mood of the time in club land, with stra...
Twiggy
Twiggy has worked in clubs for over 25 years and has built up a reputation as one of Britain's top club hosts. He currently works at DV8 in Birmingham and at various clubs throughout the UK. At the height of the dance boom in the 90s he worked for th...
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 "SLAG"
Going to the Steering Wheel
"I went to gay clubs through 1995 - 2001 and later intermittently to a gay bar. I first started going to gay pubs around my eighteenth birthday - my first experience was at the Steering Wheel, which used to be on Hurst Street just opposite the main e...
SLAG at the Steering Wheel
"The Steering Wheel venue was a bit dingy, but an amazing atmosphere. It got refurbished and improved every six months, thanks to Patrick Edwards aka 'Black Pat' and his business partner 'Tatts'. They believed in reinvesting in the business unlike so...