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The National Lesbian Conference London 1981

1981


The first was in London, in 1981 and I don’t recall there being a second one. The women I went with were a real cross over between the group and the , some weren’t part of our group but hung out with us because they were plumbers or carpenters and there was a link. I can’t remember anything about the conference itself, what it was for, the content, or what came out of it, but I do remember the excitement and the postcard which I thought was very cool. It had a black background with three lesbian symbols against a flash of fire. I sent one to my mother, her response was ‘What will the postman think?’, and my father was going ‘I don’t think you should worry about the postman’. I do remember there was a lot of aggro around it and the reaction of the . For some reason the were out a lot and a lot of different women got arrested and there was a real carry on. We must have been having some sort of protest, I remember running round on the streets, piling in when a copper tried to get someone out of the crowd, and making sure they didn’t. One woman was put in a police car, and these other women went round and opened the other door and she just got out again, but ended up being arrested again and up in court the following morning, so we did a lot of hanging around in the police station. Another friend had this huge argument with the policeman and I dragged her off and nearly suffocated her, just holding her so she couldn’t fight and get arrested. A couple of friends of mine got convictions, but I can’t remember what they were doing".

Contributed by: Trisha McCabe, 51

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