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Birmingham Gay Village

Birmingham Gay Village
The Missing Bar displaying a giant gay pride flag at Birmingham Pride 2012
LocationBirmingham, England
Postal codeB5 2TB
Coordinates52°28′24″N 1°53′45″W / 52.47333°N 1.89583°W / 52.47333; -1.89583
The area is diverse, featuring sex shops, as well as an adult cinema and sexual health clinic.

The Birmingham Gay Village is an LGBT district next to the Chinese Quarter in Birmingham city centre, centred along Hurst Street, which hosts many LGBT-friendly businesses.[1] The village is visited by thousands of people every week and has a thriving night life featuring clubs, sports bars, cocktail bars, cabaret bars and shops, with most featuring live entertainment including music, dancing and drag queens.[2]

The 2017 gay, lesbian and bisexual population of the West Midlands was recorded at 2.2%[3] or 128,920 of the estimated 5.86 million residents of the West Midlands region.[4] In 2009, the gay and lesbian population of Birmingham was estimated to be around 6 per cent or 60,000[5] of the estimated 1.03 million residents.[6]

  1. ^ "Gay Village". VisitBirmingham.com. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  2. ^ twentyfirstcentury. "Southside Birmingham :: Chinatown and Gay Village, the Arcadian Centre, The Birmingham Hippodrome and Birmingham Royal Ballet complex". Enjoysouthside.co.uk. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  3. ^ Office for National Statistics, Sexual orientation, UK: 2017, Office for National Statistics (21 January 2019), 2019
  4. ^ Office for National Statistics, Population estimates - 2017, Office for National Statistics, 2019
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Jeremy Knowles Document was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Birmingham City population estimate". Birmingham City Council. Birmingham City and Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 26 November 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2013.

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