| # | Name | Comments |
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| 51 | T Fowler | |
| 52 | pancakeparty | |
| 53 | gerone | I hope the centre gets saved. |
| 54 | P. Johnson | |
| 55 | Anonymous | |
| 56 | Zac | SAVE :D |
| 57 | Nigger titz | Disregaurd this comment sucks cocks. |
| 58 | John Miller | I am shocked to hear about this decision by Manchester City Council. Just last week the Manchester Town Hall was delighted to welcome the National LGBT Health Summit to Manchester Town Hall. Closing the Gay Centre will undo years of goodwill earned from the LGBT community by Manchester City Council. The community NEEDS a safe community space away from the bar culture of the Village. |
| 59 | Polly Conroy | If the centre closes and is not replaced by a similar venue, this will be a huge setback in a society that claims to embrace diversity. |
| 60 | Anonymous | Vitally important - please keep this centre open. |
| 61 | Andy | |
| 62 | Dana | |
| 63 | Lara Karboug | |
| 64 | Elen Heart | As Chair of TranzNet, an organisation that networks transgender support groups across the UK, I can affrim that the LGF centre has been an invaluable resource to our organisation as an ideal place to conduct our regular meetings of delegates from all over the country. |
| 65 | Joey Hateley | |
| 66 | Anonymous | |
| 67 | TransWirral | |
| 68 | Diana Aitchison | MORE help is desperately needed for everyone affected by gender and sexuality issues all over the country. This particular Centre is recognised as one of the oldest and best centres and as an example of what can be achieved. It MUST NOT CLOSE |
| 69 | Lee Gale | |
| 70 | LEE MIDDLEHURST | As a trans person who has become aware of the site only just recently I am dismayed that such a welcoming and supportive place is planned to be closed. I'm sure I'm not the only recent addition that has found it only now to learn that I am to be left isolated again. |
| 71 | Dominic Davies | I Director of national independent therapy organisation. I know how important the work at Manchester Gay Centre is to the whole community of Manchester.
I urge you to support this vital resource. |
| 72 | Gareth Cutter | The proposed closure of the LGBTQ centre strikes me as completely senseless, demonstrating a complete disregard of the needs of LGBTQ youth in the city centre of Manchester.
The proposed plans to relocate these groups to the outskirts of the city are equally bewildering; Wythenshaw and Longsight are out of the way and intimidating areas; I myself have been assaulted walking through Longsight so I doubt that other LGBTQ would feel comfortable there either.
I will be opposing the council stance whole-heartedly. |
| 73 | Liz Whittall | Please reconsider your decision to close the Gay Centre in Manchester. |
| 74 | Steph Tonner | I visited the Machester LGBT centre shortly after it opened. I was on a fact-finding visit as I had founded an organisation in Glasgow to open a similar venue here in Glasgow. I am pleased that the Glasgow version is wholly supported by Glasgow City Council and continues to offer a vital service to the LGBT community in the West of Scotland. Such services are few and far between in the UK and rather than closing the Manchester Centre I believe you should be expanding it's services. |
| 75 | Stephan Teipel | in support of my friends in Manchester |
| 76 | Andrew Perkins | |
| 77 | David Graham | This is a vital resource for the local LGBT community |
| 78 | steven egan | when i was new to the city of manchester the gay centre in manchester provided me with a place to meet other gay men in a safe and respectful environment. this centre improved my experience of manchester drasticallly. |
| 79 | steven egan | when i was new to the city of manchester the gay centre in manchester provided me with a place to meet other gay men in a safe and respectful environment. this centre improved my experience of manchester drastically. |
| 80 | Anonymous | This closure is a detrimental act. Manchster ought be assisting in the social element of the LG communities The alchoholic-baseccommercial scene is not always appropriate for people, especially those from a persecuted background, of moslem or othe religious or cultural beliefs. |
| 81 | Lesley Duggan | This centre provides a neutral base for many groups and activities. It has survived this far by meeting the needs of the community, something that we are all constantly told we need to address. Why close it at the risk of all of the good work that has been completed so far? It is an invaluable community resource and should stay. Manchester is at risk of losing its links with small community groups and with members of the LGBT community that do not access the scene or the LGF of which there are many. |
| 82 | Emma Foxall | |
| 83 | Lee Robinson | |
| 84 | Tim Eastwood | I think it would be of great importance to maintain the Gay Centre in Manchester. |
| 85 | David Campbell-Parkes | Why close it? |
| 86 | Anonymous | |
| 87 | Anonymous | |
| 88 | JULIAN C GALLIMORE | this center must stay open. |
| 89 | JULIAN C GALLIMORE | this center must stay open. |
| 90 | Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez | |
| 91 | Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez | |
| 92 | Jack Gardner | I was seriously disappointed to learn of the council's decision to close the LGYM centre in Manchester. It is a vital service for the LGBTQ youth in the area and many people will suffer if this facility is closed. I am personally moving to Manchester soon, and one of the attractions was this sort of service as there is very little like this where I come from (Hull). I urge to you reconsider this decision. |
| 93 | John Shiers | I was one of the people involved both through the Labour Party and the lesbian and gay movement in establishing Sydney Street as the site for the Gay Centre in 1986. It was leased to the Gay Centre at the time for a peppercorn rent by Manchester City Council, who paid for it to be built. The undertaking from the Council was that it would be treated as a Centre in which lesbian and gay people would self-determine it's use. I am at a loss to understand how the Council can consider closing it with no consultation or involvement with l/g/b/t communities in the Ciy. It's closure would have a devastating effect particularly for groups of young l/g/b/t users who are now among its primary users. |
| 94 | ken dobson | |
| 95 | Joanne Hulme | |
| 96 | Porl Cooper | |
| 97 | Bernard Davies | |
| 98 | Anonymous | |
| 99 | Chris Ashford | |
| 100 | judy benson | please don't close the gay centre |