Events tagged with "Quaker"
Birmingham Gay Liberation Front
The early 1970s saw the emergence of the Birmingham Gay Liberation Front. Younger members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) who wanted to take a more radical approach to gay rights formed the Birmingham group in 1971. A London group was s...
Religion
Religion has played an important role in the lives of lesbians and gay men in a variety of ways. Three main areas are covered in the memories from contributors and associated events.Firstly, for many people, the religious and cultural traditions in w...
Memories tagged with "Quaker"
Joining Birmingham GLF
“After Keele, I lived in a commune in Bristol then came to Birmingham in 1973 to do a post graduate course for a year. I knew there was a Birmingham Gay Liberation Front (GLF) as we’d had various conferences at Lancaster University and such places wh...
Long time on and off before pairing up
Gill: “We’d known each other since we first met at a lesbian conference in Bristol in 1975, I went there from Aberystwyth.” (Where Gill was living at that time).Betty: “And that is the conference of which my abiding memory is that on Friday night whe...
Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship
Gill and Betty are both Quakers.B: “Quakers, as a religious body, are accepting of lesbian and gay couples, and the Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship is what is known as a listed group so that there are various small interest groups that nonetheless ...
Transformation from CHE to GLF 1971
Nick talks about the political and physical transition from CHE into the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in the early 70s."Before we moved to the Peace Centre, our first place in Birmingham was the Quakers Meeting House, we met there for nearly two years....