Homophobic locals in Aston
1975
As the venue was adjacent to Aston Villa FC, there were a few problems with homophobic locals and jink’s taxi was vandalised.
“One example of such prejudice was experienced by Michael Patrick George Dunn, aka ‘Miles Per Gallon Dunn’. One day when he was at the club, he answered a knock at the door. There was a man there demanding that the club and all of the members leave the area immediately as he didn’t want his son to be ‘interfered with’. This man had a can of petrol in his hand. Michael ‘fronted him’ and told the man that if he wanted a problem he now had one and that they were not going to run away from him. The man subsequently left”.
Contributed by: John Jeffries aka jinks, 60