Events tagged with "Star Club"
Lesbian and Gay Community Centre, Aston
The Lesbian and Gay Community Centre Aston opened in September 1984 at 291 Corporation St , opposite Aston University. The centre was 'a voluntary, non-profit making organisation run by homosexual women and men, whose aim it is to promote the welf...
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 "Star Club"
Deaf group at the Fox
Belinda said "My contact with ‘the scene’ since the nineties has been limited to playing in the band (The Cuckoo's Nest) at lesbian events and occasionally dropping in at the Fox, I like it because they run a Deaf BSL signing group on a Thursday and ...
Different bars for different sorts of lesbians
During the eighties Mary visited various pubs and clubs in Birmingham including The Matador, where the old Bull Ring market was, which was quite a good gay venue, with a women's disco every Friday which attracted a broad spectrum of women. She, an...
Star Club
Barbara said that the Star Club was the centre of what happened in Birmingham, it was the social club of the Communist Party, in Essex Street, close to what is now the gay area. They made the Star Club available for loads of women’s things and les...
Star Club Socials
“Jackie was involved in organising the women’s socials at the Star Club (Communist Party Club – there were always incidents like, someone thinking they’d spotted a transsexual in the toilets”....
The Silver Web
The Silver Web"Apart from the Star Club which was really the one the communist women had started, the first gay club I ever went to was called the Silver Web in Wolverhampton, loads of gay women from Birmingham would have gone there. Me and my partne...
Transvestites in women's discos (about 1975)
"The first time anything other than man on man, woman on woman that I became conscious of was at a fund raising gay thing in the city centre and there was some transvestites there. I couldn’t understand why they were all wearing the sorts of fussy cl...
Women only disco at the Imperial
There was quite a divide between the political and non political lesbians, so Pam never went to the Old Mo or the Women’s Discos at the Star Club. She would go to “the rubbishy ones at The Imperial on a Wednesday evening, to chat someone up, not to g...