Events tagged with "Wolverhampton"
The Silver Web
The Silver Web was a large gay club in Wolverhampton run by a gay brother and sister, Norman and Betty Webb. It was a popular place for both gay men and lesbians from the 60s until the late 80s. It was pivotal in the development of the gay scene in W...
Wolverhampton Scene 1960s
Wolverhampton has had an active gay and club scene for many years, at times in the 70s and 80s more inclusive than Birmingham's. The Gay Flamingo was one of the earliest clubs and the Silver Web owned by Norman and Betty Webb was a regular haunt of m...
Memories tagged with "Wolverhampton"
Dog Sh*t on the lawn
In February 1987 “We held a protest march in Wombourne which staggered the local community; attended by 300 people. The Police filmed the whole event, everyone was photographed, definitely overkill! In the end all the charges were dropped, the ...
First Visit to a Gay Bar, the Dorchester
Richard's first visit to a gay venue was the Dorchester in Wolverhampton where he went with his friend Jason. he describes the fashion he was wearing at the time. "I wore a big long coat over a pair of trousers I'd run up - black leatherette wi...
Gay groups helped me 2000+
Since coming out in the late 1990s, in his forties, Alan has been involved with various gay groups who he says have helped him a lot as he wanted to know more about being gay, these include Wolverhampton LGB Police Forum and Birmingham Police Forum f...
Lesbian friendly Silver Web
"The Silver Web in Wolverhampton was very much frequented by lesbians, a good split crowd, 500 lesbians, and had shown me that there was gay women as well as men (wanting to use clubs). I don’t know what happened to the lesbian crowd in the 90s but i...
No women on the scene in the 60s
Trevor talks about the absence of women on the scene in the 1960s. “There was ladies there as well, but in those days, not so many ladies used to come out, but one or two used to come out. Why was that? There were no ladies in the bars, I find that s...
Setting up CHE in the Midlands
“Karl and I were involved with the North West Committee for Homosexual Law Reform that was run by Allan Horsefall from Nelson in Lancashire, the immediate precursor of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. We used to go out once a month on a Sunday e...
The Wolverhampton scene in the 1980s
“In those days (around 1980 – 82) there was a very limited gay scene, though Wolverhampton had the biggest scene. It had a nightclub, owned and run by a brother and sister, Norman and Betty Webb, The Silver Web, which was bigger and we later had the ...