“In the ey of the law, gay, bisexual and lbian people have full equaly but that’s not the se for trans people."
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- MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE RALLI TOGETHER TO SHOW ’S BIGGER THAN ‘SOME DISGTG GRAFFI’
- MANCHTER'S GAY VILLAGE JOS HANDS SUPPORT OF RSIA'S LGBT MUNYTHE MONSTRATN AS TIMED TO CI WH THE OPENG CEREMONY OF THE WTER OLYMPICS SOCHIMENBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYCHRIS SLATERSENR REPORTER09:58, 8 FEB 2014UPDATED10:00, 8 FEB 2014BOOKMARK (IMAGE: PL BURROWS)THE 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!
MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE RALLI TOGETHER TO SHOW ’S BIGGER THAN ‘SOME DISGTG GRAFFI’
Manchter’s Gay Village has e together to show won’t be feated by vile homophobic graffi that was dbed over artworks on two walls Canal Street. “In the ey of the law, gay, bisexual and lbian people have full equaly but that’s not the se for trans people. “There’s still a lot of people out there who see beg gay as beg sful which is why they’ve wrten 666 across the murals.
“They’re tryg to make out like beg gay is ak to beg the vil.
Nick Frankl, an artist who liv Lymm, was visg the Gay Village on Saturday wh his fiance and iend.
MANCHTER'S GAY VILLAGE JOS HANDS SUPPORT OF RSIA'S LGBT MUNYTHE MONSTRATN AS TIMED TO CI WH THE OPENG CEREMONY OF THE WTER OLYMPICS SOCHIMENBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYCHRIS SLATERSENR REPORTER09:58, 8 FEB 2014UPDATED10:00, 8 FEB 2014BOOKMARK (IMAGE: PL BURROWS)THE 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!
Pixellated imag of the homophobic graffi Manchter's gay village. 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.