Events tagged with "Shakespeare"
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...
GLF Discos
Birmingham Gay Liberation Front ran discos at a number of venues around the city, including the Shakespeare on Summer Row and occasionally large dances at Digbeth Civic Hall....
Memories tagged with "Shakespeare"
Gay Liberation Front Discos early 1973+
Gay Liberation Front held its own discos including big events such as a disco at Digbeth Civic Hall to which people came from around the country. “We had our own discos, they were very important to us. Some of the big events like at Digbeth Civic Hal...
GLF discos were Health Robinson affairs, 1973+
"These were really Heath Robinson affairs, like taking in our own record players in and setting them up. They were in the Shakespeare Pub (Summer Row) in Birmingham. We used to hire an upstairs room. It was very mixed and it was not like the gay scen...