Crompton, E., 2026.
Never Going Underground: Manchester's LGBTQ+ Community Centre
| Output Type: | Chapter in a book |
| Publication: | A Queer Scrapbook |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9781526165312 |
"When is our birthday?" asked Ali, the LGBT+ Centre manager. A simple enough question, or so I thought. The answer took four months of archival research, knee deep in 80s gay magazines and patchy council meeting minutes and records. I unearthed an intriguing story of how Manchester (potentially) became the first place in Europe to have an entirely publicly funded, purpose built centre for the gay community.