Events tagged with "HIV/AIDS"
First Pride Ball held in 1998
The Birmingham Gay and Lesbian Pride Ball was originally established as a fundraiser for the second city’s gay Pride festival, an event which first took place in 1997. The first Ball in 1998 was initially organised by the Birmingham Pride committee m...
Lesbian Health
While gay men's health has received some attention because of HIV/AIDS, in comparison, lesbian health has been more or less ignored by the medical profession and health service providers. In the 1990s a group of lesbians in Birmingham set up LesBeWel...
Memories tagged with "HIV/AIDS"
Filling the gap of HIV/AIDS prevention
Steve then got involved in Gay Men Fighting AIDS (GMFA) and was one of the founding Directors. “I worked in Birmingham with an agency called SLAP FM (an HIV/AIDS prevention charity) specifically looking at gay men’s prevention of HIV/AIDS. It had a t...