Events tagged with "West Midlands County Council"
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...
Memories tagged with "West Midlands County Council"
Closure of Lesbian and Gay Centre, Aston, '86
“It was really sad when the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre closed down. It existed for about three to four years with major funding from the then West Midlands County Council and then we lost the funding. No one had much commercial acumen also no o...
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...
The Evening Mail was outraged !
“We opened the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre in 1985, once we secured the building and started decorating, some money was secured from the West Midlands County Council – a small grant which paid for some equipment, £500 for some second hand sinks ...