Events tagged with "Evening Mail"
Media Relations
The portrayal of LGB issues in the media has without doubt, improved over recent years. At local level some of this has been directly influenced by the action of some individuals and groups, for example Mike, the Publicity Officer at Gay Switchboard....
Memories tagged with "Evening Mail"
AIDS crisis and the media
“Birmingham didn’t seem to be so highly affected by the HIV crisis as London or Manchester partly because we didn’t have such a vibrant gay scene as places like at that time. There wasn’t a lot of money going into outreach work with gay men. There wa...
Being Publicity Officer for Switchboard from 1999
Mike worked as Publicity Officer for Gay Switchboard, from 1999 - 2003. With a background in marketing and sales, he identified all the media in Birmingham and set out to build as many contacts as possible, including the main West Midlands radio stat...
GLF in Schools
GLF did make some presentations in local schools, which brought the group to the attention of the local press and the national press. “I think we advertised in the local press, we were quite keen to advertise our presence and we would advertise in pa...
The Evening Mail was outraged !
“We opened the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre in 1985, once we secured the building and started decorating, some money was secured from the West Midlands County Council – a small grant which paid for some equipment, £500 for some second hand sinks ...