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“Such an ostentatious display of wealth, even if it was a very camp display, didn’t go down terribly well with a lot of the more radical elements, and he told us afterwards unfortunately that his lovely pink Roll’s Royce was covered with scratches afterwards, with people taking their keys and going along the side of it, so he was a bit p**sed off about that,” Scott-Presland reflected. Pride in London relocated to Huddersfield. Speaking to Rachel Larman of West Yorkshire Queer Stories (WYQS) in 2019, Scott-Presland said Addy’s pink Roll’s Royce riled up some of the more socialist-leaning Londoners. That year, police started regularly raiding the premises, and they later challenged the club’s licence renewal, arguing that it was a “cesspit of filth”.Īccording to Alcock, there were, naturally, “a few tame goings on in the outside back yard downstairs, but it was hardly a Roman orgy. Gay men like him spent their nights dancing the night away to Donna Summer, Sister Sledge, Earth, Wind & Fire and The Bee Gees – but The Gemini’s success suddenly took a downward turn when West Yorkshire Police took an interest in the establishment in 1981. The Gemini was “the plushest club” Alcock had ever seen at the time, with an enormous dance floor, mirrored walls, strobe lights and a mirror ball. Huddersfield was slap in the middle of the lot (as well as various other towns in the region) with fairly good transport links and fast motorway connections,” Alcock said. “In the mid to late 1970s the Manchester gay scene hadn’t quite revved up, Sheffield didn’t have any regular gay club and Leeds only had the pitiful Charlies and the occasional Gay Lib Disco.