Posts by David WISEMAN

Things were at least developing more positively in other areas , especially politically in London. The mid eighties was quite a strange time here. Although Maggie and her Tridents (a…

Development of the gay counter culture At the same time, as a still spartan network of gay clubs were developing, the effects of the radicalised liberation movement of gay men…

My life took an unexpected turn after living for about eighteen months at the Regina, when my boss Bill Richardson, the superintendent at Kew, asked if I would come and live…

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…