Jewish Lesbians Group, Birmingham 1980s
1980
“I was in a Jewish Lesbians Group in Birmingham when it existed in the eighties – before we tore each other apart at the seams". (laughter)
"I was involved with a lot of Jewish women who put together a lot of thinking about Israel and Palestine, so in the years after 1982 it was the same bunch of women, an opportunity to hang out and deal with issues of identity, which everyone was obsessed with in the 80s. A large proportion of my best and closest friends are Jewish lesbians that I’ve kept in contact with for thirty years or so, but not in any organised sense, not even friendship circles, they don’t even know each other, they live all over Britain, but I’ve kept those connections up.”
Contributed by: Caroline Hutton, 51