This is what the Gay Village really means to Birmgham’s LGBT muny - Birmgham Live

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• MAN HELD AFTER 'BTAL' BIRMGHAM GAY VILLAGE ATTACK - AS POLICE SEARCH FOR TWO OTHER MEN NTU
• MULTI-LN POUND APARTMENTS THAT THREATENED FUTURE OF BIRMGHAM GAY VILLAGE SCRAPPED
• THIS IS WHAT THE GAY VILLAGE REALLY MEANS TO BIRMGHAM’S LGBT MUNYBIRMGHAM’S LGBT MUNY HAS OPENED UP ABOUT WHAT THE GAY VILLAGE REALLY MEANS TO THEM.BIRMGHAMMAILBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYKIRSTY CARDCOMMUNY REPORTER05:30, 29 SEP 2019BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWTHE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• GAY VILLAGE PLANNG CISN 'A VICTORY FOR LGBT MUNY' BIRMGHAMPLANS FOR HIGH RISE APARTMENTS HAVE BEEN FERRED FOR A SE VIS BY UNCIL OFFICIALSBIRMGHAMMAILBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYTOM DARELOL DEMOCRACY REPORTER13:54, 20 DEC 2018UPDATED09:26, 21 DEC 2018BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWNEVER MISS BREAKG NEWS BY SIGNG UP TO OUR EE EMAIL UPDATMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 NEVER MISS BREAKG NEWS BY SIGNG UP TO OUR EE EMAIL UPDATINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• ESTATE AGENT WHE ROLLS ROYCE JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS CYUSMAN MURTZA AGED 31, OM TIPTON, ATTACKED JOHN-PL KSELER AND ANTHONY SMH WH A GLASS BOTTLE AND METAL BAR OUTSI THE FORMER JTER BAR BIRMGHAM CY CENTRE 2021BIRMGHAMMAILBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYCARL JACKSONCOURT REPORTER17:01, 21 JUL 2023UPDATED12:18, 22 JUL 2023BOOKMARKUSMAN MURTZA RRIED OUT A HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK ON JOHN-PL KSELER (PICTURED RIGHT) AND ANTHONY SMH BIRMGHAM CY CENTRETHE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• NEW CCTV MERAS STALLED BIRMGHAM’S GAY VILLAGE
• MEN JURED HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK BIRMGHAM’S GAY VILLAGE

MAN HELD AFTER 'BTAL' BIRMGHAM GAY VILLAGE ATTACK - AS POLICE SEARCH FOR TWO OTHER MEN NTU

A man has been arrted over a "btal" attack Birmgham's Gay Village, wh a police search ntug for two other attack happened the early hours of the morng last Sunday. A group of men hurled homophobic at Rob and his hband Patrick om a passg r, before grabbg one of their mobile phon and attackg them wh bottl, knockg one unnsc and leavg the other wh cuts.

Plans for a 12-storey block of flats Birmgham’s Gay Village have been whdrawn after rints warned of “possible tensns” over the al. The proposed block of flats would have sat the cy’s gay village and jt down the road om the famo nightclub, the Nightgale.

The applitn for the new hog the gay village was whdrawn shortly before a uncil planng mtee meetg on 18 Augt. Birmgham Labour’s LGBTQ+ officer Lren Rabow told the Guardian that many people the muny are “keen to jt make sure that the gay village is protected”. Rabow add there were ncerns over potential “risg tensn om the people who are movg to the new hog gettg trated wh the noise and behavur” the cy’s gay village.

MULTI-LN POUND APARTMENTS THAT THREATENED FUTURE OF BIRMGHAM GAY VILLAGE SCRAPPED

Rabow explaed there’s also been a “risg number of attacks” on the LGBTQ+ muny wh a “lot of homophobia and transphobia” gog “unrreported”. It is the famo part of Birmgham cy centre known simply as the Gay Village.

THIS IS WHAT THE GAY VILLAGE REALLY MEANS TO BIRMGHAM’S LGBT MUNYBIRMGHAM’S LGBT MUNY HAS OPENED UP ABOUT WHAT THE GAY VILLAGE REALLY MEANS TO THEM.BIRMGHAMMAILBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYKIRSTY CARDCOMMUNY REPORTER05:30, 29 SEP 2019BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWTHE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

Frequent visors to the gay scene have had to fight agast velopment plans several tim over the last year to keep their ‘safe space. We went out to the Gay Village to fd out why ’s so important to the cy’s LGBT muny that we keep this area alive.

The performers 'We lerally have nowhere else we n go' Drag performers and events anisers Amber Cadavero and Pl Aleksandr shared the view that the Gay Village is their 'safe space' and they've been workg hard to keep the evolutn of the area full-swg. Amber said: "The Gay Village is really important to bee is our safe space. The duo have been the gay scene of Birmgham for around 25 years and have owned En Bar for over a .

GAY VILLAGE PLANNG CISN 'A VICTORY FOR LGBT MUNY' BIRMGHAMPLANS FOR HIGH RISE APARTMENTS HAVE BEEN FERRED FOR A SE VIS BY UNCIL OFFICIALSBIRMGHAMMAILBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYTOM DARELOL DEMOCRACY REPORTER13:54, 20 DEC 2018UPDATED09:26, 21 DEC 2018BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWNEVER MISS BREAKG NEWS BY SIGNG UP TO OUR EE EMAIL UPDATMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 NEVER MISS BREAKG NEWS BY SIGNG UP TO OUR EE EMAIL UPDATINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

" Gary said that he's a great believer the need for the Gay Village as a safe space and feels as though they're so close to losg a space that has been part of their muny for so long.

The uncil has acknowledged the importance of the Gay Village at their meetg wh the LGBT muny at the venue. ' Drag Artist Eilish Nolan intifi as heterosexual but feels safer the Gay Village area than Broad Street where alternative style is 'not accepted'.

Eilish, also known unr the drag name Eyelash, said: "Gay Village on Hurst Street is really important to me bee beg very alternative and que different, I don't really f plac like Broad Street.

ESTATE AGENT WHE ROLLS ROYCE JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS CYUSMAN MURTZA AGED 31, OM TIPTON, ATTACKED JOHN-PL KSELER AND ANTHONY SMH WH A GLASS BOTTLE AND METAL BAR OUTSI THE FORMER JTER BAR BIRMGHAM CY CENTRE 2021BIRMGHAMMAILBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYCARL JACKSONCOURT REPORTER17:01, 21 JUL 2023UPDATED12:18, 22 JUL 2023BOOKMARKUSMAN MURTZA RRIED OUT A HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK ON JOHN-PL KSELER (PICTURED RIGHT) AND ANTHONY SMH BIRMGHAM CY CENTRETHE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

' The Gay Village is also home to stor specifilly tailored to servg the LGBT muny.

Clonezone, Hurst Street, has been a leadg gay adult store across the UK for more than 30 years and has a shop the area. Staff say that their lotn the gay village is important for the fort of their ctomers. CJ, manager of Clonezone, said: "Nowadays people say we don't need a gay village but 's a safe and clive space where people have the eedom to hold hands and be wh who ever they want.

NEW CCTV MERAS STALLED BIRMGHAM’S GAY VILLAGE

"It's important for our store to be here bee people may not necsarily feel fortable visg a space that isn't as safe as the gay village.

" The Area's Herage The Gay Village has evolved after begng wh one street 40 years ago.

It has been the home of the cy’s gay scene sce the 1970s wh well known bars such as Jters and Nightgal servg the LGBT muny - often discretely. Prent day - Nightgale Club Birmgham's Gay Village.

MEN JURED HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK BIRMGHAM’S GAY VILLAGE

How do we protect the Gay Village? Many of those who intify as LGBT believe the Gay Village should be regnised as a place of cultural signifince.

The area, which is even regnised as the Gay Village on Google Maps, is not currently protected as such but uncil reprentativ have said uld be the future. The Planng Out toolk was lnched London on July 12 wh the goal of protectg gay villag across the UK cludg Birmgham.

Co-chair of Planng Out, Yohanna Webber said: "It's been 50 years sce the partial discrimatn of homosexualy the UK and the Stonewall rts New York. The owner of Birmgham's inic Nightgale Club says that a cisn to fer the buildg of 116 apartments the heart of the gay village is "a victory for the LGBT muny". Protters om the LGBT muny who are mpaigng agast plans to build apartments the heart of Birmgham's gay village.