Events tagged with "women only"
Birmingham City Council Women's Unit
Around 1981 Birmingham City Council set up a Women's Unit. This organised and funded various initiatives and women only events over the next decade.They organised a number of Women's Festivals and other events around International Women's Day.The Bir...
The Cuckoo's Nest Women's Ceilidh Band
The Cuckoo's Nest , a women’s ceilidh band, was formed in 1989 because the Birmingham City Council Women's Unit was funding a women only ceilidh and they wanted a women’s band to play. Although the event never took place, a number of women including ...
Women's discos and other events
Women had been organising women only events since the 1970s. These women's events usually served a dual purpose, both fund raising for various causes, and providing a women only space for socialising. Along side this, and given the lack of women's ac...
Women's venues
Because of the somewhat mixed welcome or acceptance at gay bars, and because of an explicit preference for women only space, women started organising their own women's venues women's events and women's discos, on ad hoc or regular basis....
Memories tagged with "women only"
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...