Labour axe over Gay Centre
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Last year Manchester force and a council with a Labour Group of councillors police launched a massive record like this. decided to continue to fund campaign of arrests of gay ly should take up the Colin Roach case and - send messages of support and donations to: Roach Family Support Committee, 50 Rectory Rd., London N16. AT the moment Manchester has a widely-used gay centre. However, the right wing dominated lahnur council FULOU are doing their utmost to get rid of it.
At one point the council was threatening to close all its voluntary projects (of which the Gay Centre Is one, and Rape Crisis Line and the Bangladeshi Women's and Children's Project are examples of others).
The council funds these projects jointly, with the Department of the Environ1 . ek - all of these projects except the gay centre: for the right wing Labour councillors, a nav tantre ic inet an amharrassment. Since then, the budget has been voted down in a full council meeting. But it is likely that after May, the gay centre will be axed.
The Labour Campaign for Gay Rights (LCGR) has organised a campaign to defend the gay centre.
This is just the latest attack faced by gays and lesbians in Manchester. Clubs nave been raided in the past. men for importuning'. in toilets - a crime with no victim, and a way of sexual release some men turn to because society denies them others.
Harassment Lesbians have to put up with policemen coming into their clubs, and like gay men, have their clubs raided.
With the new Police Bill threatening even more harassment,. lesbians and gays in Manchester know what to expect from a police EDWARD ELLIS