Events tagged with "Telecom Tower"
Cottaging and Cruising
Cottaging, from the Polari slang for Public Toilet. Cruising, slang. Meaning to look for sex. Historically for many gay men cottaging and cruising were the only way they could meet other gay men, not only for sex but also for friendship. For ma...
Telecom Tower
Birmingham's tallest structure, the Telecom Tower (formerly GPO Tower), Constructed between 1963 and 1966, its cavernous foundations were a popular haunt for gay men as early as the 1970s. Sitting on top of the Farmers Bridge Locks, which until recen...
Memories tagged with "Telecom Tower"
Cruising under the Telecom Tower
Rob talks about cruising by the Telecom Tower in the city centre and how it was more about social networking than sex "I used to go cruising for sex on the canal under the BT tower in the city on the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, along the Farmers Br...