Posts by David WISEMAN

After some issues at the Pied Bull, the Movements DJ's Berni & Martin fairly quickly managed to find another venue willing to host a group of dykes and faggots partying…

In September 1982 I’d decided to go back to school.  I’d been out of work for quite a while, doing volunteering jobs at that local Hackney housing co-op committee -…

According to the alt gospel of spent Watering Holes, before the famous Bell was the Pied Bull and before that the Carved Red Lion But along with all those and…

By the late summer of 1982, the Carved Red Lion basement where gay DJs Berni and Martin played their choons on the Essex Rd, was getting too small for its reputation.…

On June 16th, 1981 something specific happened in New York, which was to go onto change everything for us in London. A thirty five year old, white, gay man was very…

I had a dream last night, one of those dreams that you wake up a little shocked that a dream can be so real, leave you feeling a little weak,…

But I am rushing forwards. Tumbling over myself, in the effort to recollect what happened, at what time and to whom. Fortuitously, I have kept my diaries from those days. Diaries…

Although consensual sex between men had been partially decriminalised for males (with caveats: in private, over 21, England and Wales only, (presumably Scottish men in Gretna Green could nip over…

The Gilded Boys The gilded boys are dancing with their lovers brothers lover. Those golden lads are having one fine time. Swaying rather wildly to the ever present bass hum…

I have already mentioned that the British Film Institute (the BFI) became a beacon for me in the mid seventies , offering a way of escape into the fantasy of…