Events tagged with "gay village"
Bars & Clubs 2000s
Many of todays gay bars and clubs are situated in the 'Gay Village' area centered on Hurst Street. ...
Bars & Clubs 90s
The 90s saw the dance music explosion, with the rise of super-clubs and all weekend clubbing, many venues became larger and much more gender mixed. Many drug fuelled dance clubs were noted for there attitude free environments where sexuality was not ...
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...
Birmingham localities and the gay population
Gays are everywhere. There is no doubt that, representing 6% of the population, at 2008 levels, some 60,000 gay people live within the Birmingham City Council boundaries alone. But there is evidence that, once lesbians and gay men can exert some elem...
City Centre
There has always been a large residential population in central Birmingham with several large post war housing estates, such as Lee Bank and Ladywood proving popular choices for gay people over the years due to their convenient location for accessing...
Gay Village
Birmingham's Gay Village stretches the length of Hurst Street and everything to the right towards Bristol Street. The top end of Hurst Street has been a focus of gay life since the 1970s with the Jester, Windmill and Thorp Street Nightingale all serv...
Hurst Street
Hurst Street has become the heart of Birmingham's vibrant Gay Village over the last fifteen years. Previously a run down warehouse district characterised by post war industrial units and Victorian shops and housing, cut off from the rest of the ci...
Memories tagged with "gay village"
Birmingham Pride Community Trust’s origins
“Birmingham Pride Community Trust grew out of the Birmingham Pride festival as a number of us were frustrated that the festival was somewhat losing its political edge and becoming something of a three day beer festival. What we wanted to do was recog...
Development of the Gay Village
Mike was asked about the rate of development in Birmingham and he explained that a big change was prompted by the change of the Nightingale's premises from Thorp Street to Kent Street after the return of the lease to the Hippodrome. Because this was ...
Lack of Public Investment in the Gay Village
When asked how he viewed the social scene in Birmingham today he replied that he had been very hopeful in the late 1990s because a gay village was emerging and because of what was "almost an over-supply - fourteen or fifteen gay bars at one point and...
Nothing negative about being gay in Brum in '07
Mike explained that he felt a lot more comfortable as a gay man living in Birmingham now than he did in 1990 when he moved here from Manchester because "there is a higher visibility though not as high as it should be. There is certainly a better gay ...
Strategic approach needed for grotty gay village
Steve considers “Now we have the Gay Village, I hesitate to call it thriving, it’s still dingy and grotty, but with the confidence to have plate glass windows – and no-one puts them in. We have a wider range of commercial operations selling beer to p...
The right time to launch Midlands Zone, in 1997
Martin Monahan has been Midlands Zone editor since its inception in April 1997. "I launched Midland Zone in April 1997, at a time when life in Birmingham’s gay village was changing dramatically. Angels Cafe Bar was just about to open, complete with ...