Dykes leading activists in Women's Movement
1975
"I think what caused
most of the problems really in the Women's Liberation Movement was that a lot of
the activism, printed newsletters and all the rest was done by dykes,
gay women, and although there were married women with children, and
single women who were going to get married, in the Women's Liberation Movement,
really the dykes were the ones I think who pushed and pulled, changed
it all to fit the bill. There was a lot of resentment from straight
women who would say ‘I didn’t join because it was full of dykes or
whatever but that wasn’t strictly true. People were passionate about
it, all those dykes at work fed into the Gay Liberation Movement.”
Contributed by: Jean Turley, 72