

Wombourne March

February 1987

On Monday 23rd February 1987 300 people marched through the small village of Wombourne, near Wolverhampton, in protest against council leader , who had recently called for lesbians and gay men to be gassed to halt the spread of AIDS, and the local police. The , a group of protesters who had been arrested in December 1986 and detained in prison, had been released without charge.
