Events tagged with "Bordesley Street"
Gay Community Centre Bordesley Street
The Gay Community Centre opened in mid 1976 in a row of Victorian shops at the junction of Allison Street and Bordesley Street in Digbeth. The building consisted of three large four storey Victorian shop premises, all interconnected. The main entran...
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 ...
Lesbian and Gay Community Centres
In February 1976 a group of about a dozen people began regular meetings to discuss and plan the setting up of a gay community centre in Birmingham. They were drawn from all the gay groups operating in the city and from the commercial gay scene.A buil...
Memories tagged with "Bordesley Street"
All happening at the Gay Centre, Digbeth, 1977
The Gay Community Centre in Bordesley Street was set up not long after the time that Gill and Betty moved to Birmingham (1975) Gill: “Somebody secured the premises on the corner of Bordesley Street and Allison Street and people put a lot of effort i...
Gay Centre too noisy for the neighbours
G: “The neighbours complained that there was too much noise (at the Gay Community Centre), and I think Birmingham City Council eventually decided it could no longer be run in the way that it had been run in those premises. (I don’t even know if we h...
Getting the Gay Centre started, 1976
“The Gay Community Centre arose though one person called Glen who was frustrated by the fact there was no alternative gay activity going on. He got us together and said, ‘Why don’t we run a gay centre?’ I think we were before the London Lesbian and G...
Never as happy in Gay Centre number two - '84+
After the first Gay Community Centre had to close in 1978, the committee continued to meet, ultimately finding an alternative location for a Lesbian and Gay Community Centre, in Aston, in 1984.Gill: “A lot of work went into finding somewhere else, an...