Ageism on the scene
2001
Ageism on the scene
“When I had my seventieth birthday I thought
it would be really good to have it in a gay club so I went to the
Nightingale and they showed me the room upstairs which they wanted a
fortune for. I didn’t want to ask all my friends there because the
streets all around are quite threatening and the stairs to the back
room were dirty. The front is lovely but I didn’t feel that welcome
because I was a woman and it was going to be a birthday party for
someone who was seventy. There’s a lot of ageism. I’ve got a very wide
circle of friends, most of them younger than me, but the owner didn’t
know that when I tried to book it”.
Contributed by: Jean Turley, 72