Women's Liberation Conference disco 1978
1978
Women's Liberation Conference disco 1978
“I was working in a pub
called the Ivy Bush, so I arranged that we would have the Friday night
women's disco there but it was far too small a room, and we didn’t organise
someone with a disco, a few of us brought along a few records, and it
was just hopeless! (laughter). There was this major fight afterwards,
because there was a football club met there as well and they decided
that a bunch of lesbians (whether we were or not was irrelevant) was a
perfect opportunity for a fight! Fortunately my boss was looking for an
opportunity to ban the team, so this was an excellent opportunity to
ban them for fighting so he was saying to the women, ‘There’s more of
you, just go outside and beat the shit out of them, but just not in my
pub’. It was an absolute cock-up!”
Contributed by: Caroline Hutton, 51