Gay Birmingham Remembered

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• Route 66
• Voice
• Women's Liberation Conference 1978, Birmingham

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Read the memories of today's contributor;
Helen Ricketts

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1. Alexandra Theatre
2. Birmingham Evening Mail
3. Boot Women newsletter
4. Brum Women's Paper
5. Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights
6. Disco
7. Gateways
8. Gay Liberation Front Newsletter
9. Gay Men Fighting AIDS
10. Glamourous
11. Kings Heath
12. Lesbewell
13. Martin Healey
14. Navy
15. Pride Parade
16. Station Street
17. political groups
18. pressure to be straight
19. separatists
20. sexual politics

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Welcome to the Gay Birmingham Remembered Project

This website records the development and history of Birmingham’s vibrant lesbian, gay and bisexual community. It features memories, images and archive materials collected from a diversity of gay men and lesbians who have lived, worked or socialized in Birmingham, whether for a few years, or all their lives, set in a wider social, political and legal context. It’s all about us, it’s all about you.

Exhibition at Symphony Hall throughout May

A selection of information, memories and images from the project will form an extensive exhibition at SYMPHONY HALL until 30th May on Levels 4 and 5. Please come and visit it! During the month there will be a number of special viewings with a member of the project team and 'guest guide' on hand to discuss aspects of the content, answer queries and give additional information:

Saturday 10^th May, 4:00 p.m. “1990s and beyond, where we are now!” (including Pride, gay village, civil partnerships and changing local and national politics”

Tuesday 13^th May, 1:00 p.m. “Being gay pre 1967” including ”meeting places, police harassment, and a murder…!”

Saturday 24^th May, 4:00 p.m. “1980s: Clause 28 and the AIDS crisis” (as a Birmingham Pride event, marking 20 years to the day since Clause 28 was enacted) (note change of time.)

Tuesday 27^th May, 6:00 p.m. 1970s : “Radical gender politics” including Gay Liberation Front, and lesbians in the Women’s Liberation Movement”

Pre-booking advised, please ring 07913 787475 or email Lesley@gaybirminghamremembered.org.uk to reserve a place.

In addition, if your group would like to visit the exhibition and would like a project worker to accompany you as a guide and to provide additional background information, please contact us as above.

Website constantly growing - keep revisiting!

We are still adding material to the website, which will feature many more images in the near future, so please keep revisiting. Plus, we are receiving new memories from visitors to the website. You could send us your memories and photos too! We are still tweaking some of the functionality. We are sorry that you cannot yet see dates associated with memories, but this should be coming soon. These delays are a reflection of the volume of material we have collected and the innovativeness of the site design, please bear with us and keep returning to see what has been added! If you would like us to email you when we have got the bulk of the material on please contact us, see CONTACT US.

Launch event a huge success

The website was officially launched on 21st February 2008 at the Library Theatre, with a panel of contributors and an audience of over 200 people, sharing their memories.

It's all about us, it's all about you

No matter how diverse our experiences, we all share a connection through our shared history. The Gay Birmingham Remembered project, website and exhibition are all about YOU as an individual and all about US as a community. The website provides an interactive archive of our community's growth and development up to the present day. Additional and future contributions will make sure it is kept up to date. If you would like to contribute your own memories please see the Contribute section to the left.

Thank you for visiting, please come and see us again soon!