Memories tagged with "butch"
Butch and Femme relationships
Butch and femme“What struck us, being politicos, and still does really because it still happens and I can’t bear it, was the butch and femme women’s relationships. There were butch women who’d beat up their femme partners, copied directly from straig...
Women's night at The Grosvenor
“The Grosvenor was a big hotel on the Hagley Road with a swimming pool out the back, it was a beautiful privately owned club and they had a women’s night and you could go for Sunday lunch because they had a really nice restaurant. The gay blokes who ...
You were butch, femme or sporty in the 1960s
“There were three categories: you were either butch, femme, or you were sporty, and I was sporty. You socialised with your own little set - as a member of a hockey team you played other hockey teams with gay women in and that was how you built up you...