Wednesday, 16 January 2019 at 6:30 pm – Wednesday, 16 January 2019 at 8:00 pm

A Short History of How Manchester Built a Dedicated LGBT+ Centre

Date: Wednesday 16th January 2019

Time: 6.30pm

Location: Room 307, Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West

Tickets: Just turn up! All Welcome.

Part of the Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage public talks program for 2018/19

“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. This talk will discuss the history and look to the future of Manchester’s LGBT Centre.

Emily Crompton is a Senior Lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture. She is an architect and urban designer with a desire to involve as many people as possible in the design of spaces, buildings, neighbourhoods and cities. Within the school of architecture, Emily leads year 1 on the undergraduate course and teaches on the post-graduate course within PRAXXIS, a feminist design atelier.