Gay Birmingham Remembered

Today's Topics

• Terrence Higgins Trust launched
• Lesbian Group set up, May 1976
• Police Raids

Latest Memories

• Subway changed the scene
• Opening Subway City
• Gavans at The Dorchester

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Read the memories of today's contributor;
Hilli Rishworth

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372. Howards Bar
373. HTLV III
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375. Hurst Street
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378. impact of ethnic background
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383. Inge Thornton
384. Inner Ring Road
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388. Internet
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398. Jeremy Thorpe
399. Jester
400. Jewellery Quarter
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402. Jewish and Arab women
403. Jewish Lesbians Group
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406. Jim Callaghan
407. Jimmy Edwards
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411. Jo Joes Picket
412. John Curry
413. John Jeffries
414. John Jeffries aka Jinks
415. John Walters
416. Judy Small
417. Jug
418. Julia Radcliffe
419. Kardomah
420. Karen Creavin
421. Keith Campbell
422. Ken Livingstone
423. Kennedy Gardens
424. Kenneth Williams
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426. Kent Street
427. Kerb Crawling Song
428. Ketamine
429. Key Books
430. Khan and Bell
431. Kill the Bill
432. King's Heath
433. Kings Heath
434. Kingstanding
435. Kipper Club
436. Kyla Skinner
437. Labour
438. Labour Government
439. Labour Party
440. Ladywood
441. Larry Grayson
442. Laurie Williams
443. laws
444. Lee Bank
445. Leeds
446. Legends
447. Legends Club
448. Legislation pre twentieth century
449. Lesbewell
450. LesBeWell
451. lesbian
452. Lesbian and Gay community Centre
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455. Lesbian and Gay Community Centre newsletter
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459. Lesbian and Gay Switchboard newsletter
460. Lesbian and Gay Youth Movement
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467. lesbian health
468. lesbian health conferences
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470. lesbian mother
471. lesbian mothers
472. Lesbian rights
473. lesbian separatists
474. lesbian youth workers' forum
475. Lesbos
476. Lesley Pattenson
477. LGB staff group at Staffordshire County Council
478. LGBT Alcohol Support Group
479. Library
480. Library Theatre
481. licencing laws
482. Lionel
483. lock ins
484. London
485. London Lesbian and Gay Centre
486. London Partnership Register
487. London Pride
488. Longbridge
489. Lord Raglan
490. Lottery
491. Louise Christian
492. Love your enemy
493. Lyn David Thomas
494. MAC
495. Maggie Kirkpatrick
496. Malcolm Gibb
497. Malt Shovel
498. Manchester
499. Manchester Pride
500. Mark Bestel
501. married
502. Martin Cole
503. Martin Healey
504. Martin Monahan
505. Mary Whitehouse
506. masculinity
507. Mass Camp
508. Matador
509. Mature Gay Men's Group
510. Maypole
511. Meg Christian
512. members' club
513. mental health
514. Meriel Bloor
515. Metropolitan Community Church
516. Mexicana
517. Michael Cashman
518. Michael Hutchinson
519. Midlands Arts Centre
520. Midlands Zone
521. Midlands Zone Readers' Awards
522. Mike Chamberlain
523. miners' strikes
524. Missing
525. Moseley
526. Moseley Road Baths
527. Moseley Shoals
528. moving to Birmingham
529. Museum and Art Gallery
530. Muslim
531. Myra Connell
532. NALGO
533. National Front
534. National Lesbian and Gay Youth Movement
535. National Lottery Grant
536. Navy
537. Nechells
538. Nechells Green
539. Neil Matthews
540. Neill Matthews
541. New Street Station
542. NHS
543. Nick Stanley
544. Nightingale
545. Nightingale Thorp St
546. Noelle Gordon
547. Norman and Betty Webb
548. North West Committee for Homosexual Law Reform
549. Old Mo
550. Old Moseley Arms
551. older gay men
552. older lesbian
553. older lesbians
554. Older Lesbians' Network
555. Oscar Wilde
556. Out Central
557. Out of the Shadows
558. Out This Week
559. OUTburst
560. Outpost
561. Outrage
562. Outskirts
563. Outspeak
564. Outspoken
565. Outwrite
566. OVA
567. Ova
568. paedophile
569. Palestinian women's groups
570. pansy
571. Pantheon
572. Partners
573. Pat Howie
574. Patriarchy Study Group
575. Patrick Edwards
576. Patty Bell
577. Peace Centre
578. Peacock's
579. Peacocks
580. Peacocks at the New Imperial
581. Peacocks discos
582. Pearly Gates
583. Personal adverts
584. Pete Kirby
585. Phil Oldershaw
586. picket
587. Pink Paper
588. Pink Picnic
589. pink triangle
590. Polari
591. police
592. Police
593. Police and gay activity
594. Police Forum
595. Police Liaison Group
596. political activism
597. political groups
598. political lesbian
599. political lesbians
600. politics
601. Pool
602. pool
603. Poppers
604. poppers
605. Power House
606. Powerhouse
607. Pressure to be heterosexual
608. pressure to be straight
609. Pride
610. Pride 1997
611. Pride 2001
612. Pride 2005
613. Pride 2006
614. Pride 2007
615. Pride Ball
616. Pride Parade
617. Princip Street
618. Prisoner Cell Block H
619. psychiatric
620. psychiatrist
621. Psychiatry
622. publications
623. Publicity Officer
624. Purple Room
625. Quaker
626. Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship
627. Quakers
628. queer
629. Queer as Folk
630. queer bashed
631. Queer Politics
632. Queer Question Time
633. Quentin Crisp
634. race
635. racism
636. Radclyffe Hall
637. Radical Drag
638. Radical Fairies
639. radical feminist
640. Rainbow Flag
641. Rainbow Voices
642. Rape Crisis
643. Rape Crisis Centre
644. Register Office
645. relations with the police
646. relationship
647. religion
648. rent boys
649. Revolutionary Feminism
650. revolutionary feminism
651. Revolutionary Feminist
652. revolutionary feminist
653. Revolutionary Feminist Conference
654. revolutionary feminists
655. Revolutionary Feminists
656. Revolutionary feminists
657. Richard Dyer
658. Rod Griffiths
659. Route 2
660. Route 66
661. Roy Jenkins
662. Rubyfruit
663. Rugby
664. Sadistic Sisters
665. Samaritans
666. Sandwell
667. Sappho
668. sauna
669. Saunas
670. school
671. SCUM Manifesto
672. SCUM manifesto
673. Section 28
674. Selly Oak
675. Selly Park
676. separatism
677. separatists
678. Setting Up Switchboard
679. Sex Clubs
680. Sexual Offences Act
681. Sexual Offences Act 1954
682. sexual politics
683. Shakespeare
684. Sheila's Bar
685. Shirley Bassey
686. Signing Group
687. Sikh
688. Silver Slipper
689. Silver Web
690. Simeon Solomon
691. Sir Dick Knowles
692. sixth demand
693. SLAG
694. Slap FM
695. SLAP FM
696. Slice of Lemon
697. Small Gavans
698. Smallbrook Queensway
699. smoking
700. Snow Hill Station
701. socialist
702. socialist feminism
703. socialist feminist
704. Socialist Feminist
705. socialist feminist lesbian
706. socialist feminists
707. Socialist feminists
708. society
709. sodomy
710. Sombrero
711. South Staffordshire Council
712. Southside
713. Spare Rib
714. Sparkhill
715. Spartacus
716. split
717. sport
718. sports
719. sporty
720. sporty lesbian
721. St Philip's Cathedral
722. Staffordshire County Council
723. Staffordshire County Council's Lesbian and Gay Sta
724. Star Club
725. Station
726. Station Pub
727. Station Street
728. status quo
729. Steering Wheel
730. Steptoes
731. Steve Bedser
732. Stonewall
733. Straightsville
734. stripper
735. Strumpet
736. Subway City
737. Sundissential
738. Super Pricks
739. Switchboard
740. Switchboard Operator
741. Switchboard operators
742. Sybil
743. Symphony Hall
744. teacher
745. Telecom Tower
746. Temple Bar
747. Temple Street
748. terminology
749. Terrence Higgins Trust
750. Tettenhall
751. Thatcher
752. The Cuckoo's Nest
753. The Killing of Sister George
754. The Royal Court of Campania
755. The Triangle Committee
756. The Woodman
757. Theresa Stuart
758. Thorp Street
759. Three Mile Oak
760. THT
761. Tin Can
762. Tin Tins
763. Tindal Press
764. Tindal Street
765. Tindal Street Press
766. Tindal Street School
767. Tom Robinson
768. tomboys
769. Tony Blair
770. Tony De Vit
771. Tony de Vit
772. Tony Page
773. Tow Rope
774. Towards a Quaker view of sex
775. Town Hall
776. Trade Union
777. transsexual
778. transvestites
779. Trevor Sword
780. Triangle Arts Centre
781. Trocadero
782. Trollettes
783. Troops out of Ireland
784. Twiggy
785. UKIP
786. Union Club
787. unique
788. unisex
789. Unison
790. university
791. Valerie Solanis
792. Venus
793. Viagra
794. Victim
795. Victoria
796. Victoria Club
797. Victoria Square
798. Viking
799. Village
800. Village Inn
801. Village People
802. Vinegar Tits
803. violence against women
804. Vivienne Westwood
805. Voice
806. W H Auden
807. Wages For Housework
808. Walsall Gay Men's Group
809. Wandering Minstrel
810. Wash
811. Well of Loneliness
812. Wellington
813. West Midlands County Council
814. West Midlands Lesbian and Gay Switchboard
815. West Midlands Police
816. West Midlands Residuary Body
817. White Swan
818. William Frank Brownhill
819. Windmill
820. Winson Green
821. WIRES
822. Witton Lane
823. Wolfenden
824. Wolverhampton
825. Wombourne
826. Wombourne 12
827. Wombourne March
828. Women against Racism and Fascism
829. Women Against Violence Against Women
830. Women and Words
831. women only
832. women only night
833. Women Oppose the Nuclear Threat
834. women's access to bars
835. Women's Aid
836. Women's Army
837. Women's Big Band
838. Women's Centre
839. Women's Committee
840. women's disco
841. women's discos
842. women's events
843. women's events
844. Women's Festival
845. women's groups
846. Women's Groups
847. Women's Liberation
848. Women's Liberation Conference
849. Women's Liberation Day Conferences
850. Women's Liberation movement
851. women's liberation movement
852. Women's Liberation Movement
853. Women's Liberation Playgroup
854. women's movement
855. women's music
856. Women's Music
857. women's politics
858. Women's Refuge
859. Women's Revolutions Per Minute
860. Women's Self Defence
861. Women's Swing Band
862. Women's Swing Band
863. women's venues
864. women's writing group
865. Woodman
866. Worcester
867. work
868. Workers Educational Association
869. World AIDS Day
870. World War II
871. World War II Blitz
872. Young Lesbians Group
873. Youth Clubs
874. youth group
875. Youth Group
876. youth work
877. Zap
878. Zebedees
879. Zig Zag