Gay Birmingham Remembered Launch Event, Library Theatre, Central Library, Chamberlain Squa, West Midlands
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21 February 2008: Gay Birmingham Remembered Launch Event
Come to our free 'Gay Birmingham Remembered launch event' giving a taster of our new website. With a panel of contributors, plus audience participation we will share information and reminisce about Birmingham's gay history
February is Gay History month, and a fitting time to unveil the many gems uncovered by the Heritage Lottery Funded Gay Birmingham Remembered project. Aiming to record the city's rich LGB social cultural and political heritage, the project team has collected reminiscences and information from nearly 80 interviewees spanning seven decades, plus boxes of magazines, flyers, photographs, badges and other artefacts. These are currently being sorted and entered onto our website www.gaybirminghamremembered.org.uk , which will be publicly accessible from late February.
To launch the site and provide a taster, we are holding a free 'Gay Birmingham Remembered launch event' at the Library Theatre, Central Library, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3HQ on Thursday 21st February at 7:00 p.m. with refreshments. Some contributors will be recounting anecdotes and experiences. Audience members will be invited to share their own memories and tales. Please bring old pictures or memorabilia to donate or loan!
We'll explore a range of themes including:
• The changing ways we meet, influenced by technology from Gestetners to Gaydar: 'After a strange encounter on New Street I was invited back…. I was more interested in the colour TV, it's the first time I'd seen one, than the lad I went back with' - Alan, 1973
• The rise and demise of Birmingham's two Gay Centres: 'a deputation of fundamentalist Christian churches went to see the Council and got a pledge off the Leader that no gay organisation would get any funding except over his dead body'- Lyn, 1987
• The changing fashions from dungarees to diamante: 'I was wearing Vivienne Westwood rocking horse shoes with 4 inch platforms and a pink furry phallus safety-pinned to black leatherette trousers with white overlocking which I'd run up.' Richard, 1992
• The impact of HIV/AIDS: 'The police in Wombourne ….brought a man to trial in Wolverhampton who was HIV+ and wore space suits to bring him into court - Lyn, 1987
• Why the 1978 National Women's Liberation Conference, held in Birmingham, was the last! 'There were thousands of women in the plenary getting hysterical. The Bradford dykes were on one side saying ‘give us that microphone you middle class wanker' and these working class lesbians on the other side saying to me ‘would you like to join us' '- Patricia, 1978
• The evolution of the gay village: 'Angels opened, with plate glass windows - I was amazed to see gay people in the open – I had thought gay people in Birmingham must be vampires!' – Tom, 1997
We'll update you on other Gay Birmingham Remembered activities including gay heritage guided walks. If any local group would like a speaker on a gay history related theme get in touch. There will be time at the end to mingle and share further memories over a free glass of wine or juice.
Our material will then be showcased in a new Gay Birmingham Remembered Exhibition on display in Symphony Hall throughout May. To bring it up to date, the exhibition will incorporate ‘A Portrait of Gay Birmingham 2008', with a professional photographer capturing the diversity of the city's gay community in various locations during gay history month, including at the Library Theatre event, so you could feature in the exhibition (with your permission!).
Meanwhile, Birmingham Libraries' Proud History display, from 2006, returns to Central Library at the top of the escalator, all February. Please visit!
Further information from lesley@gaybirminghamremembered.org.uk or 07913 787475
Birmingham Pride Community Trust
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Birmingham Pride Community Trust aims to reinvigorate and support the city's diverse lesbian, gay and bisexual communities through community engagement, advocacy, and lobbying for better service provision. Our target group are LGB people who live, work, study or play in Birmingham, and we prioritise the needs of younger, older and black and ethnic minority LGBs. We organise a range of community information and consultation events including a regular Forum for local LGB community groups.
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