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Memories by Graham 2

Printing the GLF newsletter and Gladrag

"The Birmingham Gay Liberation Front Newsletter was produced between 1971 and  1974, there were only about  4 or 5 five editions published. They were printed using one of those old  hand-cranked Gestetner duplicators.  You had...

I loved it

I loved the Nightingale Club at Witton Lane, Aston. I was the DJ there from 1977 until the club moved to Thorp Street. It was a small, triangular building on three flours. The club occupied the first two floors and the club managers, (Mick Dunn and...

Memories

"I first met Laurie Williams and his partner Lionel Strawbridge in 1977. I was a student at Birmingham University where, during term time I helped run the Birmingham University Gay Society, (GaySoc). In the 1970s The Nightingale Club, at Witton Lane,...

Membership

The University of Birmingham’s first Gay Society, (GaySoc) was set up in 1974 by Chris Stevens and me. There had been an un-official group of gay students (mainly boys) at the university since around 1968, but this was one was the first to be off...