Sce the start of the 1990s, the area around Canal Street, Manchter cy centre, has grown to bee one of Europe's most lively gay areas, now known as the Village. The area has bee popular wh both heterosexual and gay visors and has one of the most vibrant nightlife scen the cy.
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One of the UK’s most well-loved gay quarters, The Village is home to a host of bars and entertament venu, all set around the famo Canal Street. By the late 80s, more gay people were g out. At one of the Manchter protts around 20, 000 people marched and what was signifint was that they weren’t all gay.
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The vigil aspect me a few years later when the gay people of Manchter started losg their iends, lovers and life partners to HIV/AIDS. Queer As Folk, a TV programme that dramatised the life of three gay men the Village was aired on Channel 4 and signified that there had been a major shift societal attus towards gay people.
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Known for s late-night clubs and cheap drks als, the Gay Village is popular wh Manchter partygoers - but there's more gog on behd the scen.
Today, Manchter’s Gay Village is a verable party district. The neighbourhood has weled a gay clientele sce the 1940s, but, by all acunts, ’s only the past twenty years or so that thgs have really started to turn a rner, spe homosexualy beg crimalised 1967. An excerpt om Mancunian Gay magaze 1984 tled ‘Not tonight, Anrton’ tells the story of how one night 20 pla cloth officers stormed to Napoleons and forced everyone attendance to provi their personal rmatn before beg allowed to leave – an cint that was later brand as “an obv se of police victimisatn” a prs release issued by the Gay Centre.
In spe of this, the first Gay Pub and Club Olympics event (now thought of as the gural Manchter Pri) still went ahead on the Augt Bank Holiday weekend of 1985. Notably, had the support of a new generatn of Labour uncillors elected 1984 – who gave the gay muny their support and appoted Lbian and Gay officers. Inspired by Ken Livgstone‘s early days on the Greater London Council, those new uncillors created an Equal Opportuni Commtee and appoted Maggie Turner and Pl Fairweather what would prove a landmark move for gay rights the north of England.