Memories tagged with "moving to Birmingham"
A big city is anonymous
"I moved to Birmingham to be in a bigger city, in Grimsby there was no gay life. A big city is a new place where no one knows me and I can be myself". Will, on moving to Birmingham in 1995, aged 21....
To fit in in the 80s it was London or London...
Steve talks about moving to Birmingham from St Albans in 1985. He contrasts the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre Aston, with the London Lesbian and Gay Centre in Farringdon. “I used to go there all the time in my late teens and early twenties, just t...