Events tagged with "Gay News"
Gay, Lesbian and Womens press and publications
Over the years numerous national and local publications have come and gone which are produced by, and aimed at lesbians, gay men, and women (in the context of the Women's Liberation Movement). These have often been an invaluable source of informatio...
Memories tagged with "Gay News"
Gay News on sale at Peace Centre - 1981
“The Peace Centre was an intellectual centre; we sold gay and lesbian books at a time when these were difficult to buy. We sold 'Gay News’ when the only other place that sold it was Leesons, a local newsagents, noone was gay but they’d taken the deci...
Gay Times at the Peace Centre
“I also had links with the Peace Centre; there were a large number of gay people involved with the Peace Centre. The Peace Centre sold Oz, Gay News, including the controversial copy of Gay News that had the poem that Mary Whitehouse took against and ...
I loved it
I loved the Nightingale Club at Witton Lane, Aston. I was the DJ there from 1977 until the club moved to Thorp Street. It was a small, triangular building on three flours. The club occupied the first two floors and the club managers, (Mick Dunn and...
I loved the Nightingale at Witton Lane, 1977
I loved the Nightingale Club at Witton Lane, Aston. I was the DJ there from 1977 until the club moved to Thorp Street. It was a small, triangular building on three flours. The club occupied the first two floors and the club managers, (Mick Dunn an...
No idea how to find anyone like me
Gill: "I’m Gill. I’m 63. I was born in Ilford, then in Essex, now East London. I came to Birmingham in 1962 to go to university and I’ve been here for most of the years since. I had identified myself as lesbian when I was 18 but was completely unable...
Outpost
‘Outpost’ was a free lesbian and gay newspaper which was out in the late nineties, I was working as a counsellor and for a while got lots of lesbian and gay clients, and when that fell apart there was no longer anywhere that everybody got, people wou...
Pink triangles at the Peace Centre - 1981-4
"circa 1981-1984 - the indie/hippy/lefty 'Peace Centre' Shop at the back of what is now the Pavilions Shopping Centre would sell Gay News, Square Peg, Spare Rib, along with books. Later (I think) they had Pink Paper, although I could be rememberin...