The venue hosts one of Glasgow's oldest annual parties - but they didn't always welcome everyone
While nowhere near as old as the university itself – which turns 572 this year – the Glasgow University Union itself is over 130 years old and is home to one of the city’s oldest annual parties, serves rather infamous pints, and was the last union in the UK to allow women.
It was later moved to a new building at the foot of University Avenue, an imposing baronial mansion-style structure which remains there today. GUU was the last student union in the UK to allow women, and even after the Sex Discrimination Act of 1975, a referendum to mix the two unions was defeated significantly.In 1979, a general meeting of the QMU passed a vote to allow men to be members, and the GUU eventually followed suit the following year when they were under threat from the University Court of losing the lease to extend the building.
These include The Well, Base, G12, and Hive, the nightclub which is the home to the infamous ‘pint of fun’, coming in a variety of shockingly bright colours and topped off with foam.
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