Events tagged with "poppers"
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...
Poppers
Poppers is the street name for various alkyl and butyl nitrites, usually sniffed directly to obtain a mild 'high'. Extremely popular amongst gay men since the Disco scene of the late 1970s and the Hi-NRG days of the 1980s.From Wikipedia...Poppers is ...
Viagra
Extracted from Wikipedia...Sildenafil citrate, sold under the names Viagra, Revatio and under various other names, is a drug used to treat male erectile dysfunction (impotence) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), developed by the pharmaceutica...
Memories tagged with "poppers"
All about Poppers
This article from the Voice, the Nightingale Clubs members magazine discusses poppers in July 1983. In the early years of the HIV epedemic there had been a suspected link between Poppers and AIDS, this link was later proved false.PoppersWhenever peop...
Bringing Poppers to Birmingham
"There weren't as many drugs then, I introduced poppers to Birmingham then, via the Grosvenor, they were banned in the Nightingale, they used to smoke (weed) but never in the bars or the clubs, not that we banned it, they just didn't do it, if they s...