Just Take Your Frock Off
A Lesbian Life
Barbara Bell
Her Uncle Jack was the first in a long line of gay men who befriended her – one workmate even taught her about French kissing in the lunchbreaks. But always Barbara was on the look-out for women like herself.
She found them in Girl Guide camps, Paris clubs, Park Lane tea rooms, Hitler’s Germany, London in the Blitz, a Watford approved school and a Nigerian village. She had two lesbian ‘marriages’ but also illicit and delicious little ‘flutters’. She was butch in tailored suits and femme in crocheted lace. In a silent world she learned to be discreet but she never turned her back on love.
Living in Brighton in the early sixties, Barbara zoomed round the countryside in a sportscar, counselling heart-broken lesbians. Gay liberation ushered in a world of more freedom than she could ever have imagined when she was young. In her seventies she started ‘buddying’ men and women with AIDS and wore a red hat to their funerals.
Familiar to viewers of BBC2’s It’s Not Unusual, Barbara Bell here tells the full story of her extraordinary life and times.
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Details
| ISBN | 9780953588008 |
| Genre | Autobiography/Biography |
| Publication Date | 07-Jun-99 |
| Publisher | Ourstory Books |
| Format | Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 192 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| BookID | 6291 |
