National Association of Youth Clubs
1985
“There was a National
Association of Youth Clubs Girls’ Work Officer called Val, based in
Leicester and there was this whole network of Girls’ Workers, a huge
proportion of which were lesbians. I got to know Val through this, then
got involved with her. She managed to get funding for a magazine called
‘Working with Girls’, and I got the job of editor. It was hilarious,
this was in the days of ‘Letraset’, you literally type set it letter by
letter, not like now, I had no idea how to do layout, cut the bits out,
and paste them literally, with tweezers and scissors and glue. I
remember sitting under the table crying my eyes out, I didn’t know what
to do, but we figured it out. When I got the job I ended the
relationship with Val".
Contributed by: Trisha McCabe, 51