Events tagged with "Well of Loneliness"
The Well of Loneliness published
The Well of Loneliness is a 1928 lesbian novel by the English author Radclyffe Hall. It follows the life of a woman whose ‘sexual inversion’ is apparent from an early age. She finds love while serving as an ambulance driver in World War 1 but their h...
Memories tagged with "Well of Loneliness"
Butch/femme
Bridget worked at Lee Hospital in Bromsgrove in the sixties, “There were two women, a nursing Sister called Hardy and a nursing assistant called Rose, Rose and Hardy. Rose was 100% butch, she never wore anything other than men’s clothes, she had a...
Controversy over selling the SCUM Manifesto
Belinda worked at the Peace Centre from 1981 until it closed in 1985.“There was a controversy over whether to sell copies of 'Coming to Power' by Samois, published in 1983. It was produced by the Californian coalition of sado-masochist lesbians. At t...
You were butch, femme or sporty in the 1960s
“There were three categories: you were either butch, femme, or you were sporty, and I was sporty. You socialised with your own little set - as a member of a hockey team you played other hockey teams with gay women in and that was how you built up you...