The Nightingale Club
Birmingham's oldest gay nightclub, opened in the late 1960s and known locally as 'the Gale'. It spreads over three floors with a stage, several bars, a restaurant and a…
Kent Street and Lower Essex Street, Birmingham
The Nightingale Club, the Village Inn (inside the Nightingale building) and The Fox.
History
Kent Street Baths stood here until 2009.
Venues on Kent Street and Lower Essex Street
The Village Inn
One of the village's longest-running cabaret pubs, now inside the Nightingale building on the corner of Kent Street and Lower Essex Street, with live cabaret through the…
The Fox
The village's women-centred bar, marketed to lesbian and bisexual women and their friends but open to everyone. Known for live music, a beer garden and summer barbecues.
Where it is
The village is in Southside, in Birmingham city centre beside the Chinese Quarter, centred on Hurst Street and running into Kent Street, Gooch Street and Sherlock Street. The Smallbrook Queensway section of the inner ring road forms its edge, and the Hippodrome theatre and Arcadian centre are next door.
More streets in the Gay Village
- Hurst Street: The heart of the village: Glamorous Bar, Equator, Sidewalk, Medusa Lodge and the new Birmingham LGBT centre…
- Gooch Street and Sherlock Street: Eden, reopened in 2025.
- Wrentham Street: The Fountain Inn, a bar with rooms.
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