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Rochdale is a town and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester. It was an important textile manufacturing centre in the early industrial revolution, and the birthplace of the co-operative movement. As well as Rochdale itself, the Metropolitan Borough includes the towns of Middleton, Heywood, Littleborough and Milnrow, and the village of Wardle.

LGBT history

There was an Oldham-Rochdale-Tameside CHE group in the 1970s.

The Rochdale LGBT Network Reading Group meets in the Central Library.^[1]

Gay Rochdale is a website aimed at LGBT people.^[2]

References

1. ↑ http://www.rochdale.gov.uk/library_services/_more_on_library_services/books_and_reading/reading_groups/rochdale_lgbt_network_reading.aspx (dead link)
2. ↑ http://www.gayrochdale.co.uk/