Younger lesbians nowadays
2008
Bridget doesn’t think young lesbians are the
same as in the 70s/80s, she doesn’t think they are politicised. “In our day, the
Iraq/Iran thing, we had our doc martens on and would be going somewhere, not
just about gay and lesbian issues, we would have been out there as an identified
group, ‘Lesbians against the Iraq War’. I don’t see that happening now, though
not just gays, but young people generally, are too comfortable now, they are all
products of Mrs Thatcher. It’s a pity there isn’t more organised protest these
days”. Barbara said “We don’t have a lot to do with young people other than at
work, but we’re not on the scene so have very limited contact with young
lesbians, but if there was stuff going on we would have heard about it. ‘It’s
about me, me, me’”.
Contributed by: Barbara Carter, 53, Bridget Malin, 62