#gaybird

[terastaleyes]

WIP loyal three (TWO RN) gijinkas!

[tenbirdsinatrenchcoat]

Gay gaybirds gay

its true 😔 gaybirds do indeed be gay...

[scotianostra]

Margaret( Russell ) McIver was born on May 9th 1879.

“Maggie” went on to found the famous Barras in Glasgow..

Maggie was born Margaret Russell in 1879, to Margaret Hutcheson, a french polisher and Alexander Russell, a policeman, in either Bridgeton or Ayrshire sources differ. Maggie Queen of the Barras, had her first taste of business when she looked after a family friend’s fruit barrow in Parkhead. She was just 12 years old at the time.

Maggie met her husband and future business partner James McIver at the local fruit market. The couple ran a small business in the Calton, hiring out horses and carts to local hawkers, mainly women, on a daily basis.

After the first world war, the McIvers started organising Saturday markets on land that would become the present-day Barras market. In 1926, Maggie decided the market should be covered, as she was concerned about the health of the hawkers in bad weather.

When husband James contracted malaria during the war and died, Maggie was left to raise nine children and think of new ways to raise income.

She came up with the idea of opening a ballroom above the market, partly to give the hawkers somewhere to hold their Christmas dance. The Barrowland is now a world-renowned, much-loved and respected music venue, famous for its sprung floor and impressive list of performers.

Maggie asked former Bluebirds bandleader Billy McGregor to form a resident band for the Barrowland and it became Billy McGregor and the Gaybirds, a hit with Glasgow’s dancers throughout the thirties. Foxtrots and waltzes were the order of the day until American servicemen introduced jiving and jitterbugging during the Second World War.

When Maggie died in 1958, astute, caring and creative businesswoman Maggie McIver was a multi-millionaire.

The ballroom was burned down in a massive fire shortly after Maggie’s death, but reopened in 1960, with the famous neon signage erected around 1982.

The world-renowned music venue is still owned by Margaret McIver Ltd and has played host to some of the biggest musicians from across the world from David Bowie to Oasis, I was last there in September 2021 to see the late great Terry Hall and his band The Specials.

[turochamp]

my glue melted the foam slightly but gaybird cutout print manifested

[major-violence]

gaybird hays

[calidebs]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Vintage Advertising Paperweight Gaybird Pheasant Farm Great Missenden Bucks.

[thearchivistfromnightvale]

Sooo...what's my nickname? :3c

Yours is gaybirds...don't ask 😭 I think it's a mental association of menagerie with like, zoos and stuff? Idk if it makes sense but yeah, gaybirds :)

[apho-sappho]

oh i’m dumb hunter 🎁

Autistic gaybird

[arcaneraven]

Ayo genderfluid people are fucking valid and deserve more recognition yeah I said it! So I drew yall a bird it's a Rosy Parakeet cute and awesome just like yall.

[puppyplayer100]

You ever just so tired you want to sleep but you can’t cuz your not tired? #sleep #gay #gaybird #tired #night #IHaveToBeUpAt8TMRAndImNotOk #immotok #sleepy https://www.instagram.com/p/CC5VQt2AtgS/?igshid=18wt40nfvsnse

[portable-rock]

GayBird is Leung Kei-chuek, a Hong Kong sound artist. he was also known for his band Multiplex, whose debut album Snow in June was produced by Tats Lau

[clawtips--remaking-blog]

I LOV E YOUUUU

I LOVE YOU i missed you!!! how have you been

[plonestrashbin]

@anonymoushatter IS A DORK

[fernmoss]

Waiting for that jailbreak by the jailbirds! 

[rashta01]

I think my bird is gay for his ladder

[stripeboy0621]

港🐽？噢！ #梁基爵 #GayBird #家 #順時針逆行⠀ #藝壇新勢力 #JCNewArtsPower #HomebyGayBird2019 （在 羅素街） https://www.instagram.com/p/Bswer5hAWej/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tqimik8iuv8g