Francis Lee and Alasdair McLellan on growg up gay Yorkshire and the power of personal experience – HERO

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From secret pubs Salford to unrground club nights, a new exhibn ptur Manchter's gay nightlife om the 70s through to the 90s

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THE STRIKG PICTUR THAT CHART THE BIRTH OF MANCHTER'S GAY SCENEFROM SECRET PUBS SALFORD TO UNRGROUND CLUB NIGHTS, A NEW EXHIBN PTUR MANCHTER'S GAY NIGHTLIFE OM THE 70S THROUGH TO THE 90SMENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSWHAT'S ONBYLUCY LOVELLWHAT'S ON WRER07:00, 25 JUN 2017BOOKMARKKEV CUMMS: PUNK FANS KISSG AT THE RANCH, 1977 (IMAGE: KEV CUMMS)SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY WHAT'S ON NEWSLETTER TO KEEP UP WH WHAT'S HAPPENG AROUND GREATER MANCHTERMORE 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 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY WHAT'S ON NEWSLETTER TO KEEP UP WH WHAT'S HAPPENG AROUND GREATER MANCHTERINVALID 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!

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Larger gay bars and clubs started to emerge, which subsequently turned Canal Street to one of the biggt, most thrivg gay villag Europe. Their work is a ‘g of GAYge‘ story, an ner monologue cidg wh the humble begngs of flirtatn and fascatn wh makp, the sire for androgyny and the difficulti faced wh transgenr turmoil at a very young age.

From secret Salford pubs the 70s to the unrground club nights of the 90s, the strikg imag document the birth of Manchter's vibrant gay scene. The jubilant scen are stark ntrast to the stggl faced by the LGBT muny the 1970s, when homophobia and prejudice was still rife. Homosexualy had only partly been crimalised 1967 and even by the 1980s, attus were such that the then Greater Manchter Police Chief Constable Jam Anrton was able to keep his job after scribg gay people as 'swirlg about a human csp of their own makg' at the height of the AIDS epimic 1986.

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Canal Street and the Gay Village were once a far cry om what they are today, as were the rights of LGBT people. The imag remd of how once was. * lee gay manchester *

Manchter's first Gay Pri event was held the same year. Today, Manchter Pri's Big Weekend is one of the biggt events the cy's ftival lendar and attracts tens of thoands of people - gay and straight - om all over the world for a four day party the cy's Gay Village. Canal Street 2017 is led wh gay bars and rtrants.

” The show forms part of the mm's Never Gog Unrground exhibn, markg 50 years sce the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy.

I was que happy Donster, I liked my iends, but I knew I was gay and I knew that I uldn’t stay there if I wanted any kd of normal life.

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Gay Manchter: From the Manchter Pri Para to the bars on Canal Street, this gui will tell you everythg LGBTQ travellers need to know to have a fabulo trip this betiful cy. * lee gay manchester *

Even though a lot of people go, “Oh your iends are homophobic, ” I genuely don’t thk they were, I thk jt ends up beg a kd of peer prsure suatn where everyone go, “Ooh they’re queer, ” or whatever. I had to get out bee I was gay and I thought that there wasn’t any pot beg gay Donster.

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“I was que happy Donster, I liked my iends, but I knew I was gay and I knew that I uldn’t stay there if I wanted any kd of normal life. If you’re a gay traveller Manchter, the famo Canal Street will be your first port of ll, wh a range of venu to su all typ of travellers. Gay Manchter: Is Manchter gay iendly?

In fact, 2011, Expogays named Manchter the most gay-iendly cy the world, even ahead of ci such as San Francis and Amsterdam. You’ll fd the most welg environment around the Gay Village on Canal Street, but Manchter’s gay populatn has spread across the cy recent years and you should feel safe everywhere. Manchter’s gay area.

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