These days, we refer with ease to 'lesbians' and 'gay men'. These terms separately and together are widely used within and outside the LGB community. However, even within the seventy years covered by the memories from our contributors, a variety of t...
Meriel reports that her aunt referred to her gay godfather as a ‘pansy’, which was the terminology at the time. “I think gay people were known and accepted at the time as friends, but it was all hush hush and (heterosexual) people had a surreptitious...