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Events tagged with "Pink Picnic"

Birmingham LGBT Community Trust

Birmingham LGBT Community Trust was founded in 2002 to continue the work of the dormant Birmingham Pride Forum. Initial funding was a legacy from the Birmingham Pride festival. The trust consists of twelve trustees who have worked voluntarily to...

Pink Picnic

Pink Picnic 2007 was organised by the Birmingham Pride Community Trust. The event was billed as an antidote to the commercialism of the current Birmingham Pride and called on members of the gay community to simply turn up to Cannon Hill Park and occu...

Memories tagged with "Pink Picnic"

Having a ball at the Pink Picnic - July 2007

Steve describes an event organised by Birmingham Pride Community Trust: “The Pink Picnic was in Cannon Hill Park in July 2007, more than 100 people met up, played cricket, had a picnic and enjoyed the sunshine. What was great about the Pink Picnic wa...

Lesbians were 'woman-identified' in the 70s

Gill and Betty said they were both identifying with the Women's Liberation Movement in the mid 1970s. B: “There was some sort of crossover then; for a while there used to be things like women's discos, where you would get lesbians going but also stra...

Organising the first Pink Picnic

The Birmingham Stop the Clause group organised the first Pink Picnic, in Cannon Hill Park around 1991. “There was a circle of gay men and women, all with packed sandwiches and everyone got on.” ...