Memories tagged with "terminology"
Homosexual wasn't in my vocabulary in the '50s
Jean turned 13 in 1948 and talks about the lack of terminology at the time."I was a teenager in the fifties; all the words that we use now all the time - lesbian, homosexual, homophobe - I wouldn’t have known them, they were not in my vocabulary. The...
Training the registrar's team 2005
“When they were introducing the Civil Partnership Act (2005) the registration service came to talk to us (the LGB staff group at Staffordshire County Council) about how they should advertise, what sort of leaflets they should prepare and so on. We ha...