Events tagged with "agent provocateur"
Arrested for Cottaging
Cottaging was and is illegal, and many men have been arrested for it. The police often used an 'Agent Provocateur', officers pretending to be cottagers, to trap gay men. The police would regularly purge infamous cottages and arrest several men in one...
Memories tagged with "agent provocateur"
Greyhound Women Fight Back
WOMEN FIGHT BACK – article in ‘Zap’, Issue 1, July 1978 by Helen Rose It was a good night, at the Greyhound, 40 women together, all in high spirits, talking, laughing, joking. One or two new, but most knowing each other. That sort of unhassled atmosp...
The end of the Silver Slipper
The closure of the Silver Slipper as reported by 'In The Pink', April 1987.OBITUARYThe Silver Slipper, so named after the Silver Slipper dance studio on the corner of Hill St & Station St, has been filled in. Consequently Birmingham City has lost...