Events tagged with "drugs"
Drugs and Alcohol
Recreational drugs and alcohol play an important part in the lives of many gay and bisexual people. Smoking rates are twice as high amongst gay and bisexual men than the general population. More gays and lesbians die from tobacco and alcohol every ye...
Impact of Licencing Laws
Much of the way that gay people socialised, when and where, was influenced by the licencing laws at the time.Back in the 1950s and earlier, bars were licenced only till 10:00p.m. so many gay men moved on to one of a number of cafes, coffee bars or mi...
Peacocks
Formerly M&M's the bar became Peacocks in 1994 and stayed open until the early 2000s when the Bull Ring Shopping Centre was demolished. Towards the end of its life the bar had a reputation for drugs....
Memories tagged with "drugs"
Drugs in the 90s
"Obviously there were other influences which promoted them having a good time, there was a lot of drugs in that club (Tin-Tins), and they didn't have an alcohol licence, which exacerbated that, I don't know if it was the Council targeting it or becau...