Events tagged with "Birmingham Gay Liberation Front"
Birmingham Gay Liberation Front
The early 1970s saw the emergence of the Birmingham Gay Liberation Front. Younger members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) who wanted to take a more radical approach to gay rights formed the Birmingham group in 1971. A London group was s...
Gay Education Group
The Gay Education Group was a sub group of Birmingham Gay Liberation Front, they produced a pamphlet called Growing up Homosexual which was widely sold....
Gladrag
By 1974 Birmingham Gay Liberation Front Newsletter had been retitled Gladrag. As GLF activity dissipated in the city, Gladrag became the magazine of the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre Bordesley Street. download a full copy of Gladrag from December ...
GLF Dance Digbeth Civic Hall
In 1973 Birmingham Gay Liberation Front held the first of several large dances at the Digbeth Civic Hall. They had been holding smaller discos at various pubs around the city for two years....
GLF Discos
Birmingham Gay Liberation Front ran discos at a number of venues around the city, including the Shakespeare on Summer Row and occasionally large dances at Digbeth Civic Hall....
GLF Marches
Birmingham Gay Liberation Front regularly held protest marches, especially as part of larger events such as anti-nazi rallies. ...
Hughie Green
On the 24th March 1974, Hughie Green referred to a group on Opportunity Knocks called ‘Fragile’ as “a bunch of poofs”. Malcolm Gibb for Birmingham Gay Liberation Front wrote a letter to the producer of Opportunity Knocks complaining about the use of ...
Peace Centre
The Peace Centre was an alternative book shop on Moor Street Queensway, which stocked many left wing politcal publications along with enviromental books and gay and lesbian literature. It was also home to Birmingham Gay Liberation Front in the early ...
Memories tagged with "Birmingham Gay Liberation Front"
Joining Birmingham GLF
“After Keele, I lived in a commune in Bristol then came to Birmingham in 1973 to do a post graduate course for a year. I knew there was a Birmingham Gay Liberation Front (GLF) as we’d had various conferences at Lancaster University and su...