Gay Birmingham
7th Feb 2010
THROUGHOUT February, the School of Education building will be home to the ‘Gay Birmingham Remembered’ exhibition.
February is LGBT History Month and to mark the occasion the Birmingham LGBT Community Trust is hosting the special display, documenting Birmingham’s gay roots, and how the movement has progressed through recent decades.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in and around Birmingham is now flourishing, and compared to how it fared through the 1970s and 80s, the movement has come a long way.
The exhibition explores this transition through images, testimonies and archive material from the last 60 years.
The influence of both local individuals and organisations that brought about social and cultural change is analysed. Sections of the displays include a ‘Portrait of Gay Birmingham’, an explanation of ‘How Birmingham got its Pride’ and a map of ‘Gay meeting places in the 1980s’.
Additionally looked at are the problems with HIV and AIDS which affected the city and also the struggle for equality ‘through into the new millennium’.
Advice is given for those who are struggling to come out, and also firsthand testimonies given from those who have been victims of homophobic bullying.
Matt Ward, the Guild’s LBGTQ officer, reacted positively; ‘This exhibition is a fitting tribute to the ongoing struggle for LGBTQ equality, whilst it also appreciates the freedoms we enjoy today following the sacrifices made by our community in the past.’
Birmingham’s Gay Pride this year takes place over the weekend of Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th May.









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