Events tagged with "disabled"
Commission for Equality and Human Rights
The setting up of a single equality commission – the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) - will create the first statutory body to protect Britain’s lesbian, gay and bisexual population. The Equality Act 2006 - which establishes the CE...
Disability
Individual lesbian and gay people’s identity is about more than their sexuality. Sadly, members of minority groups have not always found acceptance within the LGB community. Disabled lesbians and gay men face double disadvantage, including homo...
Memories tagged with "disabled"
Attitudes to disability in the 1980s
Attitudes to disability in the 1980sTrevor, who is severely disabled and uses a wheelchair says “Attitudes were very different twenty years ago both to being gay and disabled. We’ve moved on. The reaction to me as a disabled gay man has not been easy...
Attitudes to disabled gays in the 90s.
Trevor, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, talked about attitudes to disabled gays in the 90s.“A thing that made me very angry happened about ten years ago. ‘Boyz’ magazine (a weekly scene orientated magazine available freely in the commercial ve...
Clubbing at the Powerhouse 1985
“Eventually I made friends and got the confidence to go out on the scene. There was a one nighter at the Powerhouse. Thursday night was gay night, and it was the best venue in Birmingham. It’s still there, called something else. It has been a club si...
Disablity and the Lesbian and Gay Centre c.1984
Trevor is disabled and uses a wheelchair, talks about the culture at the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre, Aston in the mid 1980s.“To some extent there were still prejudices but there was a culture of much more acceptance and there were another coupl...
I didn't shape up with my disability - 1985
Trevor is disabled and uses a wheelchair.“As an outsider back in the eighties, the gay scene was very frightening. I got the feeling that the scene was very body conscious and gay men in particular seemed obsessed with the body beautiful and the male...
Lack of disabled access c2007
Trevor, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, talks about the lack of disabled access c.2007Trevor states, “Even now there are only three or four venues that are accessible to me. I can’t get into Angels, The Village or Partners. I can get into The ...
Lesbian and Gay Centre helped me come out '84
“The Lesbian and Gay community Centre in Corporation Street, Aston near the Fire Station had recently opened (1984). My friend said it looked quite accessible, so I went and that’s when I started to come out. It was a coffee bar with some socials and...