Babysitting blues
1977
Gill: “I was less involved in other stuff. Partly because I’d got two
children and one of them had disabilities and I was also firstly
studying and then working. I had babysitting issues and a hostile
husband who wasn’t going to approve of me going out too much. Betty’d
got one (child) at that time.”
Betty: “Whereas I was only working some
of the time, I didn’t have the hostile husband and I did have quite a
lot of babysitting support from a gay male couple I knew from the gay
centre, Pete Kirby in particular, but Neil Matthews as well were really were uncles
to the kids for many years.”
Contributed by: Gill Coffin, 63, Betty Hagglund, 50