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Contents:
- THOMPSON ARMS - GAY VILLAGE
- CLONEZONE: REWARD OFFERED OVER GAY VILLAGE SHOP ATTACKS
- MANCHTER GAY VILLAGE
THOMPSON ARMS - GAY VILLAGE
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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.
CLONEZONE: REWARD OFFERED OVER GAY VILLAGE SHOP ATTACKS
Gay Village: Thompson Arms - See 1,185 traveller reviews, 285 ndid photos, and great als for Manchter, UK, at Tripadvisor. * thompson arms manchester gay village *
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.
MANCHTER GAY VILLAGE
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.