By John Stangroom The history of the Gay Sunday Walkg Group n be traced back directly to the first walk for gay men and women March 1972. Vivian Waldron, who had jt retired om the civil service where he had anised a walkg group, had joed the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE) and thought…
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The history of the Gay Sunday Walkg Group n be traced back directly to the first walk for gay men and women March 1972. Vivian Waldron, who had jt retired om the civil service where he had anised a walkg group, had joed the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE) and thought some other members might like to try untry walks. When Gay News (a weekly newspaper) appeared we put our walks s ee ‘g events’ lumn welg all gays who joed .
He moved to Bath around 1980 (beg a valued member of Gay Wt) and I took on the work. Pretty well all the regular walkers went along wh this, and a group of volunteers set up the Gay Sunday Walkg Group; John Mathewson, a member sce 1973, argug strongly for ‘Gay’ to be the name to keep fah wh our CHE roots.
We have always tried to wele new walkers and be iendly – the early days this ma a nice change om the predatory atmosphere found many of the plac where gays met. The Group has been through AIDS, the rise and fall of gay pubs, near hysteril police prosecutns the ‘80s, Mary Whehoe, newspaper hostily sometim pied om the Nazis, queer bashg, Clse 28, datg apps, the long battle to end discrimatory laws (1967 to 2002), Covid regulatns… and WE’RE STILL HERE. Whether you ll walkg, hikg, or ramblg, the Gay Sunday Walkg Group go out and enjoys – London, Essex, Kent, Surrey, Ssex, Berkshire, Buckghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.
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Whether you ll walkg, hikg, or ramblg, the Gay Sunday Walkg Group go out and enjoys - London, Essex, Kent, Surrey, Ssex, Berkshire, Buckghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. You don’t have to be an experienced rambler to take part; fact many of our members have veloped a taste for the open air… * gay sunday walking group *
Hikg and walkgntact the clubWhether you ll walkg, hikg or ramblg, the Gay Sunday Walkg Group go out and enjoys - London, Middlex, Essex, Kent, Surrey, Ssex, Berks, Bucks, Beds and Herts on one all-day and one half-day walk each month. We are a gay walkg group based and around Greater Manchter, maly but not exclively for members of the LGBT muny. It was set up followg the closure of Mhroom Bookshop (another gay-iendly pennt) on Heathte Street.
Origally built by Ltlewoods followg the moln of The Black Boy, a salubr hotel that hoed one of the gay bars of the 1960s.
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As we walk down this now pestrianised street, a number of gay and gay iendly venu spng up wh a welg vibe. On the left a group of short lived gay bars popped up late 2018/19 cludg Bar 96. Buildg on s reputatn as a theatre bar, the late 1990s beme more gay iendly and opened s Green Room to many LGBT groups.
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It has a predomantly gay clientele the days.
At the bottom of Broad Street, we see The Newmarket (though not officially gay, has been very gay iendly several rernatns of s life).
It was one of the many super clubs to host regular monthly gay night; “Revolutn” anised by Pete Marte (of Sleaze Sisters fame) the late 90s. Turng left at the bottom of Broad Street, a short walk along Upper Parliament Street, is The Old Dog & Partridge, one of the most popular gay bars the 1970s.
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Like many pubs at the time, the gay bar was separate, at the back of the straight pub.
” This pub was one of the first to be n by the Bradley fay who monopolised the Nottgham gay scene the 80s & 90s. One famo punter was edienne, Su Pollard who is quoted as sayg, “I met my first gay man when I was fifteen. The high-rise flats of the shoppg centre were famoly known as “Fairy Towers” durg the 1990s due to the number of gay rints.