Events tagged with "Balsall Heath"
Balsall Heath
Not only did a number of contributors note that they had or do live in Balsall Heath, this area was also home to the Birmingham Women's Centre, drawing in a number of lesbians to the various activities held there. Balsall Heath is a run down inner ci...
Birmingham localities and the gay population
Gays are everywhere. There is no doubt that, representing 6% of the population, at 2008 levels, some 60,000 gay people live within the Birmingham City Council boundaries alone. But there is evidence that, once lesbians and gay men can exert some elem...
Memories tagged with "Balsall Heath"
Allegations and counter allegations in the police
Bernard talks about what subsequently happened to him after he came out on television. “I used to have a group of Asian kids, in their teens, twenties, chatting to me, etc. After a while the young lads saw through me being gay and saw me for wh...
Fissures at the Birmingham WLM Day Conferences
Birmingham Women's Liberation Day Conferences were held regularly at Tindal Street School, Balsall Heath. “There was a lot of paranoia at the time, but it was interesting. I remember the one conference where we were saying that the local Women's Libe...
Kerb Crawling Song by Rubyfruit, late 70s
The Kerb Crawling Song by Rubyfruit"We were all living in Balsall Heath at the time which may have been relevant because this song was all about kerb crawlers and it was: “Underneath a street light waiting for a bus, Along comes a creepy guy to hav...
Lesbians gravitated to Kings Heath
Barbara and Bridget live in Kings Heath. Barbara said “I’ve lived in Balsall Heath, Kings Heath or Moseley since my second or third year in university, which is the area most lesbians gravitate to be with others of the same kind, lots of feminists, l...
Long time on and off before pairing up
Gill: “We’d known each other since we first met at a lesbian conference in Bristol in 1975, I went there from Aberystwyth.” (Where Gill was living at that time). Betty: “And that is the conference of which my abiding memory is...
Lots happening for lesbians in the 1980s
Betty ‘Henrietta's Out’ (after Henrietta the Engine in Thomas the Tank Engine) had a logo with this train on it that somebody created. Catherine M was involved, the moving light in that was Liz Davidge.” Gill: “This was back around the same time as w...
Promoting homosexuality at the Library!
In 1987 Inge began working for Birmingham Public Libraries, shortly before Clause 28 was passed in 1988. She was involved in campaigning against it, but felt she was living a dichotomy: “All this out and proud stuff on the streets of Balsall Heath, w...
Suburbs and growing older
Suburbs and growing older “I’ve mostly lived in the Moseley, Kings Heath, Balsall Heath corridor for 20 years and I really liked being part of the furniture of an area, and part of a community, not necessarily part of a lesbian community. Now I’ve mo...
Womens eventst came and went 70s and 80s
Very little for women (in the 70s and 80s)“There wasn’t anything specific specifically except women did try to set up stuff. They (women's events) all came and went like they do in London. The Greyhound Pub had a night for dykes and then that closed....