The author Lynn Alderson pictured protesting Section 28 in 1986 (top) and during the women’s liberation movement in 1978 I guess I was curious as a teenager, the late sixties were famously explosive about sexual matters. And, like many young people today I was very attracted by androgyny and would have said that what …
Our member, Paula Boulton writes to Diva magazine after inaccurate reporting of the 2019 Lesbian Strength March in leeds As the MC of the Lesbian Strength March I am appalled at this inaccurate reportage. We held a LESBIAN STRENGTH MARCH and Rally. This tradition has a herstory which many of the 150 Lesbians (I …
Protesting the misreporting of the Lesbian Strength March Read More »
The last thing on earth I was going to do was become a member of the Labour Party. They weren’t nearly radical enough for me. I came out as a lesbian in the early 1970s and was part of one of the first Gay Liberation Front groups in the UK, spending exciting evenings thrashing out …
I moved to Bradford in 1980 and of course was affected by what was happening at the time. West Yorkshire was a place of fear for women, with unsolved murders by the man we later discovered to be Peter Sutcliffe. We were only too aware of the attitudes to women being demonstrated by those – …
Last month Keir Starmer spoke at PMQs about the “epidemic” of violence against women and girls in the UK, following the horrific murder of Sarah Everard which sparked an outpouring of collective grief and anger around the country. The Labour leader spoke of his vision for a “cultural and social” change to bring about long-term …
Lesbian Labour welcomes Keir Starmer’s comments on misogyny Read More »
In September 2017 I considered going down to London to attend a meeting. It was about the potential impact on Women and Girls if the definition of Woman were to be changed from “the adult human female of our dimorphic species” to “anyone who feels like a woman”. This would include men – adult human …
