Events tagged with "Lesbian and Gay Community Centre Aston"
Lesbian and Gay Community Centre, Aston
The Lesbian and Gay Community Centre Aston opened in September 1984 at 291 Corporation St , opposite Aston University. The centre was 'a voluntary, non-profit making organisation run by homosexual women and men, whose aim it is to promote the welf...
Lesbian and Gay Community Centres
In February 1976 a group of about a dozen people began regular meetings to discuss and plan the setting up of a gay community centre in Birmingham. They were drawn from all the gay groups operating in the city and from the commercial gay scene.A buil...
Triangle Arts Centre
The Triangle Arts Centre was situated on Aston University Campus, on the northern edge of Birmingham city centre, close to the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre Aston. The cinema regularly showed gay films....
Memories tagged with "Lesbian and Gay Community Centre Aston"
Editing In The Pink
Lyn became involved in producing the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre’s newsletters. “They published a newsletter to update members about fundraising and so on and they used to have a Roneo duplicator, to run off a thousand or so copies - some were d...
Gay Centre a magnet for coming out process
In the mid 1980s, Steve recalls the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre Aston, on Corporation Street. “That was closed because it lost funding from West Midlands County Council, giving credence to my hypothesis that the West Midlands is conservative wit...
Gender tensions at the Lesbian and Gay Centre
An article in the January 1985 issue of the Birmingham Lesbian and Gay Community Centre Newsletter which suggested that more male members were needed to get involved in the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre Aston, resulted in the following letter from...
Picketing Jill Knights office
“People involved in the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre Aston also became involved with the Anti Section 28 campaign for lesbian and gay rights. It has been said that the Birmingham LGB community was three people and a set of mirrors and it certainl...
To fit in in the 80s it was London or London...
Steve talks about moving to Birmingham from St Albans in 1985. He contrasts the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre Aston, with the London Lesbian and Gay Centre in Farringdon. “I used to go there all the time in my late teens and early twenties, just t...