Description:Extract from oral history interview:
“I am going to jump back again to, you know, ’76, ’78. I was a lesbian in Birmingham and nationally there was a ban on the sale, the selling of gay and lesbian papers, so the only information you could get, as far as I can remember, was from the Pink Paper which was free and it was only free at selected outlets…you had to know where the outlets were to be able to get the Pink Paper to find out what was going on which was quite difficult and confusing because you needed the Pink Paper to be able to find the outlets, so you had to know somebody who knew something before you could find out where to go. I think I mentioned earlier, the Holloway which was the Davenport’s pub near Holloway Head, which was Tuesday evenings and women only. Other places in Birmingham, the Grosvenor House Hotel…there was the Nightingale and the Jester and they were all on the street that comes down from New Street Station to Holloway Circus”. [MS 2255/2/67]
This extract comes from a longer interview undertaken as part of the Millennibrum Project in 2000. Transcripts and listening copies of the full interviews are available in Local Studies and History on floor six of Birmingham Central Library.