Events tagged with "Campaign for Homosexual Equality"
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...
Campaign for Homosexual Equality
The Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) grew out of the North Western branch of the Homosexual Law Reform Society and became a network of local branches nationally, with the aim of law reforms recommended in the Wolfenden report. After decriminali...
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...
Memories tagged with "Campaign for Homosexual Equality"
Building up to Wolfenden
“We knew we had to fight, we did indeed. Lots of the men were politically aware, but I think only the slightly older ones, the ones who had been through the war and lived all that bloody nonsense and put up with all that because it was more or ...
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...
Greyhound Women Fight Back
WOMEN FIGHT BACK – article in ‘Zap’, Issue 1, July 1978 by Helen Rose It was a good night, at the Greyhound, 40 women together, all in high spirits, talking, laughing, joking. One or two new, but most knowing each other. That sort of unhassled atmosp...
Not the official history of the Gay Outdoor Club
Not the official history of West Midlands Gay Outdoor Club – written by Bob Miles in 2004 "The West Midlands group is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary in August 2004. Not that the group is 25 years old, you understand, but what the hell? ...
Seeking Equality Through the WLM and the Unions
“It was 1972 and this was the year of my politicisation as a lesbian. After being involved in gay politics, through Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) I became part of the Women’s Liberation Movement. I had often fe...
Setting up CHE in the Midlands
“Karl and I were involved with the North West Committee for Homosexual Law Reform that was run by Allan Horsefall from Nelson in Lancashire, the immediate precursor of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. We used to go out once a month on a Sunday e...