Homosexual wasn't in my vocabulary in the '50s
1950
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. They may have been in
some peoples’ but definitely not in mine and so all I can tell you is I
just knew I wasn’t like other girls of my age".
Contributed by: Jean Turley, 72