Events tagged with "political lesbians"
Coming out through feminism
Many lesbians came out through their involvement in the Women's Liberation Movement / feminism. For some this gave them the confidence to come out in a safe environment, or it opened their eyes to possibilities of relationships with women, or it was...
Women's Liberation Conference 1978 Birmingham
The last ever national Women's Liberation Conference was held in Birmingham in April 1978 at Ladywood School. The motion to have a separate freestanding seventh demand of the Women's Liberation Movement, 'An end to discrimination against lesbians', w...
Women's Liberation Movement
The Women's Liberation Movement, or Women's Movement, or feminism, is very closely linked with many lesbians' lives, particularly those coming to recognise or define themselves as lesbian during the 1970s and 1980s. There are so many contributions ...
Memories tagged with "political lesbians"
Chaos and hostility at the WLM Conference, 1978
Betty: “Women’s Liberation Conferences at that point were annual conferences, the last one, was in Birmingham in 1978, at a school in Ladywood. Different women’s and lesbian groups took responsibility for certain things. The Socialist feminists were ...
Political lesbians (late 70s)
"Some of the dykes' sexuality was questioned sometimes and there was a big thing going on in the movement then about Women's Liberation Movement activists who became gay as a political end because it was a political statement to be gay. Ref: politica...