Events tagged with "Gay Liberation Front"
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...
Gay Liberation Front founded
London Gay Liberation Front (GLF) founded at the London School of Economics on 13 October....
GLF National Conference
Birmingham hosted the Gay Liberation Front annual conference in 1972, at the chaplaincy at Birmingham University Guild of Students. ...
Rubyfruit singing group is formed
During the 1970s, women's music was increasingly used as a means of political expression.Three Birmingham lesbians, Betty Hagglund, Caroline Hutton and Lorna Eady formed a singing group called Rubyfruit (named after Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown...
Memories tagged with "Gay Liberation Front"
A sex education pamphlet
“The Gay Education Group (of the Gay Liberation Front) also produced a sex education pamphlet called ‘Growing Up Homosexual’, which we then sold, we sold quite a lot nationally. We had help from Martin Cole who was a biologist who gave us some rather...
Birmingham activists just changed hats, 1970s
Betty: “In the ‘70’s, the Gay Community Centre started, but also the Peace Centre, and GLF (Gay Liberation Front). Around that time a mixture of gay and lesbian people including Pete Kirby and Helen Rose put on a musical starting with the song “There...
Booking Digbeth Civic Hall for GLF, 1973
Graham recalls booking the Civic Hall in Digbeth for the first GLF dance in 1973. "I went to book the venue for the first dance; it was run by the City Council. There was a building called Bush House on Broad Street (now demolished), that was where E...
Getting involved in GLF
“Les, another student at Keele University, went to the first meeting of London GLF (Gay Liberation Front) at LSE (London School of Economics). I hardly knew him but he had identified me as gay. He came straight up to me and said, ‘You’re gay aren’t y...
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...
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...
Making the tea for GLF in 1971
“I was involved with Gay Liberation Front in London, back in the early days when the lesbians were expected to make the tea. Everything in those early days seemed to be in pink with yellow writing and therefore totally unreadable.”...
Membership
The University of Birmingham’s first Gay Society, (GaySoc) was set up in 1974 by Chris Stevens and me. There had been an un-official group of gay students (mainly boys) at the university since around 1968, but this was one was the first to be off...
Men at the Women's Centre?
From Brum Women’s Paper November 1975 A Women's Centre For Birmingham The idea of a women’s centre is something which has been discussed i...
Picnic Ends in Violence
This article from 'In The Pink' October 1989, highlights the risks taken by 'out' gay people even in the late 1980s. A group of gay people were attacked in broad daylight in St.Phillips Square central Birmingham.PICNIC ENDS IN VIOLENCEA peaceful picn...
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...
The origins of the GLF manifesto
Nick talks about the origin of the GLF manifesto.“It was patriated from New York into London Gay Liberation Front by Aubrey (Walter) and then we looked at it here in Birmingham and discussed and contributed.”“It was all the classic stuff about equal ...
Transformation from CHE to GLF 1971
Nick talks about the political and physical transition from CHE into the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in the early 70s. "Before we moved to the Peace Centre, our first place in Birmingham was the Quakers Meeting House, we met there for nearly two...
Varied membership of University GaySoc, 1974
The University of Birmingham’s first Gay Society, (GaySoc) was set up in 1974 by Chris Stevens and me. There had been an un-official group of gay students (mainly boys) at the university since around 1968, but this was one was the first to b...