Equinox gay club manchester

In the last 30 days the archive has grown by 29 new artefacts, 21 new members, 5 new people and places. Fun loving criminals! Taken in Fallowfield when we were illegal homosexuals but fun loving criminals.

The Lapsed Clubber Audio Map

We were under 21 under the legal age manchester in the Sexual Offences Act - consenting adults in private over 21? But this made no difference to us, a long love affair with music and clubbing in Manchester started from here. Happy but illegal gay days! The first issues of the magazine were self funded, written and typed on an electric typewriter and glued onto boards, either in the Gay Centre basement or in our kitchen.

The banner was made by us and in the style of the new masthead for the magazine that Glenn club in Letraset! Not music related but certainly part of the Manchester Gay movement of the time. Manchester people go to Huddersfielda march through the gay in protest against the targeting of LGBT people and the refusal to renew the licence for the well known 'Gemini Club' John Addy.

You can see that we were dressed as new romantics and abuse was hurled at us by the locals. The protest was a success! Assembled on the kitchen table with Letraset dry transfer lettering and some Rotring pens no Apple Mac in those days! Poster by Glenn in the summer of - this was big at the time and held in Alexandra Park, Moss Side.

Note the march was from Strangeways Prison! Assembled by hand on the kitchen table with Letraset, Rotring pens and Spraymount no Apple Mac in those days! Final poster web printed on news print paper. The top photo was upstairs on the main dance floor the same year. Tie dye, baggy luminous clothing.

Come on Eileen! We had more fun than actually working and serving customers This was the second birthday poster that I designed for the Hacienda. Simple and all executed by hand no apple mac at that time. I have a photo of the original black and white artwork on a drawing board in my studio Anagram Studios at the time. Good memory indeed!

Black and white advert produced by Glenn for the first gay night at the Hacienda. The night was promoted by Paul Con's and unfortunately a big flop and well in advance of the launch of Flesh. At the time the Hacienda wasn't popular or in fact that equinox known to the majority of LGBT people who spent their time around Canal Street.