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Events tagged with "Gladrag"

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...

Birmingham Gay Liberation Front Newsletter

First published in 1971, the Birmingham Gay Liberation Front Newsletter was produced monthly and contained news, events and editorial. It was distributed in a variety of ways from street sales in place such as the Bull Ring Shopping Centre to sympath...

Gay, Lesbian and Womens press and publications

Over the years numerous national and local publications have come and gone which are produced by, and aimed at lesbians, gay men, and women (in the context of the Women's Liberation Movement). These have often been an invaluable source of informatio...

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 ...

Memories tagged with "Gladrag"

80s and early 90s publications

"There were no other commercial or non commercial publications in Birmingham in the mid 1980s although the The Pink Paper started shortly after. Birmingham Friend and CHE had each produced newsletters as had the Metropolitan Community Church but thes...

Printing the GLF newsletter and Gladrag

"The Birmingham Gay Liberation Front Newsletter was produced between 1971 and  1974, there were only about  4 or 5 five editions published. They were printed using one of those old  hand-cranked Gestetner duplicators.  You had...

Producing Gladrag

“GLF produced a newsletter for a number of years called ‘Gladrag’, it started out as a duplicated number of sheets, we sent it out to people all over the country and we sold it around town, at gay clubs too if they would let us. Gay News had also sta...