Events tagged with "women's discos"
Matador
Bar situated in the Bull Ring Shopping Centre, became a popular venue for women's discos in the 1980s. It was also used by various LGB organisations as a place to put on fundraising discos in the 70s and 80s....
Peacocks at the New Imperial
Peacocks at the New Imperial was a basement bar situated on Needless Alley in the Imperial Hotel (now offices), held popular women's discos on the last Saturday of the month, in the late 1980s and early 90s....
Women's access to bars
Pre 1960s Prior to the 1960s, and well into the 1970s there appears to have been very little opportunity indeed for lesbians to get together openly in a social or public space. All the bars noted as being popular with the gay crowd in the 40s and 50...
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's discos"
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 ...
Lesbians were 'woman-identified' in the 70s
Gill and Betty said they were both identifying with the Women's Liberation Movement in the mid 1970s. B: “There was some sort of crossover then; for a while there used to be things like women's discos, where you would get lesbians going but also stra...
Pressure to adopt lesbian feminist dress code
“I used to go to women's discos, and remember taking my frock off and putting on trousers and then thinking ‘What am I doing, I’m censoring myself’ and putting the frock back on.”...
Women's discos in the 1990s came and went
“In the later 90s we used to hire the Union Club on Pershore Road for monthly women's discos, from around 1996/7. They were organised by a woman called Wash, who was in the Trade Union movement”. “There were two short-lived organisations, ‘Henrietta’...