Uptight about the past
1982
“I can see it was difficult for others,
leaving aside the fact that Stacey on her own managed to attract very
strong emotions; about ten years ago, a long time since we’d been
involved in all that, we had a party at our house, and Stacey and some
other lesbians came, and they were so uptight about being in the same
space, they found it difficult enough to relate to me, I’d ended up
with some sort of reputation for being purist and difficult, and having
a high opinion of myself, and not wanting to co-exist with others, and
judging other people and all that. I know that was how it was seen but
it’s not how it felt to us at all. There are some women I know well
now, who had a definite view of me in the past who discovered that that
wasn’t really the case, I’m not going to jump down their throats and
give them a hard time, but I think that there are others, who I’ve not
got to know, who still hold that view, it’s continued over time, I was
taken by surprise when I realised how uptight some women still were
about some things that happened, though in my world they didn’t even
happen”.
Contributed by: Trisha McCabe, 51