Events tagged with "Old Mo"
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...
Moseley
Moseley is a cosmopolitan residential area three miles south of Birmingham city centre. It has a bohemian reputation and has been a popular place for gay people to settle in for many decades.It is characterised by large Victorian villas, mansions and...
Old Moseley Arms - the 'Old Mo'
One of the most popular haunts for lesbians in the 70s and 80s, and affectionately known as the 'Old Mo', the tiny pool room at the rear of the Old Moseley Arms, became colonised by lesbians, particularly the feminists, and was regularly packed to th...
Memories tagged with "Old Mo"
'Don't come looking here' launched c.1980
Betty: “There was a women's writing group with some lesbians in it, we met at Tindal Street School. We had our book launch at the Old Mo, when we brought out a book of poetry and writings called ‘Don't Come Looking Here’ ; then there was a second one...
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...
Lesbians' attitudes to children
Betty: “In Birmingham I don’t think boy children was an issue, like in London. I remember noticing when I moved up from London to Birmingham that in London there were things like the Women’s Arts Alliance which wouldn’t even allow newborn boys in bec...
Women only disco at the Imperial
There was quite a divide between the political and non political lesbians, so Pam never went to the Old Mo or the Women’s Discos at the Star Club. She would go to “the rubbishy ones at The Imperial on a Wednesday evening, to chat someone up, not to g...
Working with girls
“When I was doing my research at University, I was interested in young women and the transition of school to work. The professor at the Centre for Contemporary Studies was famous for this, but his work was all about lads, so I did this research on gi...