International Women's Day and GLF
1970
International Women?s Day + GLF
?The morning after this first night, which was deeply disappointing in many ways, but I?d had my rite of passage, I was part of a group of women doing an [International Women?s Day] event (March '77) and we had a rehearsal in Chamberlain Square that Sunday morning, so I was going straight there and didn?t know whether to tell anyone or not. It was a very exciting time; I was the person who had arranged with the police that we were going to have this march. We were doing street theatre and I was doing the singing, so I was doing all these things I?d never done before, seeing the police and negotiating with them, they said they didn?t want the GLF on the march, this was a ladies liberation march and what are these gay men doing here, and it was well, they come as our allies and so we?re quite happy, and singing, I always had this very loud voice and helped make up some songs, and we did them in Chamberlain Square and the Bull Ring, and it was all great fun ? the next weekend was the actual event?.
Contributed by: Caroline Hutton, 51