After the LGBTQ+ community lost Aunty's in Walsall during the 1960s, another Black Country venue came along to cater for LGBTQ+ people across the region. Flamingo Club, Wolverhampton was opened in 1965 by George Smith, and it soon became a popular haunt for the LGBTQ+ community not just in Wolverhampton but also further afield, much as Aunty’s had been before it.