Events tagged with "Labour Party"
Michael Cashman elected MEP for West Midlands
Michael Cashman is Labour Party MEP for the West Midlands region representing Sandwell, Dudley, Walsall, Coventry, Warwickshire & Staffordshire in the European Parliament. Michael was a founding member of Stonewall and was its Chair from 1988. ...
Women's Liberation Movement
The Women's Liberation Movement, or Women's Movement, or feminism, is very closely linked with many lesbians' lives, particularly those coming to recognise or define themselves as lesbian during the 1970s and 1980s. There are so many contributions ...
Memories tagged with "Labour Party"
Being the out gay Councillor
“I am the Labour Party Councillor for Longbridge Ward, there are precious few lesbians and gay men in Longbridge, and my activity with the lesbian and gay community doesn’t win votes for me; I guess there’s an argument that it might lose votes, I’m n...
Chaos and hostility at the WLM Conference, 1978
Betty: “Women’s Liberation Conferences at that point were annual conferences, the last one, was in Birmingham in 1978, at a school in Ladywood. Different women’s and lesbian groups took responsibility for certain things. The Socialist feminists were ...
Joining the Communist Party
"I finished college and went to night school to do a Sociology A level, where I met a woman who was in the Communist Partyand I just liked the things she was talking about politically. I obviously came from a Labour voting family, a Trade Union famil...