Boot Women not missed a month since 1993
1993
Inge was one of the initiators of Boot Women, a walking group for
lesbians. “I remember the discussions, upstairs at the Old Mo, years
after the pub was no longer lesbian, we got together on a Tuesday, just
a few friends and it just came out of an idea, hand out flyers, maybe
some women would come. The first walk was March 93 and we’ve not missed
a month since! I’d been to the Silver Web in Wolverhampton the night
before, we got a coach from the Fox, (it used to be much better then,
quieter, you could talk to people). I didn’t get back till 4 a.m. but I
was there on the bridge of the MAC at 9:00a.m. That formula continues,
meet on the bridge, or at the start of the walk. Then, it was the first
Sunday, now it’s the second Sunday of the month”.
“I am so pleased
it has carried on, some of the people who were there in the beginning
are still there. I was involved for ten years, but am less involved
now”.
Contributed by: Inge Thornton, 46