Events tagged with "Boot Women"
Boot Women
'Boot Women' organise walks, other activities and social events for lesbians and have been one of the most successful and significant community led groups for lesbians in Birmingham for the last 15 years.The first Boot Women walk took place on the fi...
Memories tagged with "Boot Women"
Boot Women - 'a walking cocktail party'
Boot Women was started in 1993, set up by Val, Catherine’s ex-partner – and they weren’t speaking at the time, but a year later they were OK and Catherine’s been leading walks ever since. “At first we knew all the women, it was described as a ‘walkin...
Boot Women not missed a month since 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 id...
Boot women socials and ball room dancing 97-00
“Out of Boot Women came Boot Women socials, we used to have women's discos at the United Services Club, on Gough Street, barn dances, we used the Church Hall in Moseley, stuff at the University, around 2000; a couple of women, Helga and Lynda, organi...
Boot Women Strides On
“I help to run a women’s walking group, which operates all year round, called Boot Women. It has been going for about 15 years now (since March 1993), and is very simply organised you just turn up the second Sunday of every month at the designated me...
Deaf group at the Fox
Belinda said "My contact with ‘the scene’ since the nineties has been limited to playing in the band (The Cuckoo's Nest) at lesbian events and occasionally dropping in at the Fox, I like it because they run a Deaf BSL signing group on a Thursday and ...
Henrietta's Out
“'Henrietta's Out’ was a social mailing list operating in the late nineties, I was briefly on the list, and incorporated the Boot Women list, there would be various social gatherings, such as older lesbians' events and an International Women's Day ev...
Lesbians have poorer health
"The LesBeWell group undertook a questionnaire survey, aiming to get a representative sample of around 350 women, which proved very difficult. Lesbians were recruited to complete the questionnaire at pubs, clubs, after Boot Women walks, at Pride etc....
Sleep walking with the Foragers
Helen notes that some of the same women from lesbian social group Sappho were involved in the lesbian walking group Boot Women, and an earlier group, 'Foragers' run by Pat and Pauline, and supported by Kenric, which is for very slow walkers. "You cou...
Yeee haaa to the Cuckoo's Nest
“Boot Women, the predominantly lesbian women’s walking group, started in the mid-nineties, wanted to have social events (Boot Women Socials) and because The Cuckoo's Nest was the only women’s band in town they would set up ceilidhs and people actuall...