Lesbians at Work: 12 Sexy Stories of Love at the Office

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The remaining 3.6 million people aged 16 years and over (7.5%) did not answer the question on sexual orientation. Because we didn’t always have that. There was a time when we were out of favour because we weren’t ‘the right sort of lesbians’.” The club was subjected to demonstrations by the likes of the Gay Liberation Front who disapproved of the secrecy of the club, at a time when women could lose their children for being gay. The indomitable Gina Snr’s response was to call the police on them. Sitting in meetings with her at the prominent literary agency where we both worked left me feeling weak. Usually never short of things to say, in her presence, I’d marvel at her ability to drain all quips from my mind, leaving my mouth bone-dry. But I knew the cliché and I refused to succumb to the stereotype of being the young, ambitious 25-year-old who screws the boss.

The percentage who did not provide an answer was also very similar (7.5% in England, 7.6% in Wales). The census provides estimates of the characteristics of all people and households in England and Wales on Census Day, 21 March 2021. It is carried out every 10 years and gives us the most accurate estimate of all the people and households in England and Wales. We lived as a family. Smithy and my mother were both with my father when he died – all holding hands and taking care of him.”He lived in Cheyne Walk, and would pass by the Gateways to get to the King’s Road. “And my mum would be outside, taking deliveries, doing the laundry or whatever, and she said that he used to stop and talk quite often. Like this article? Sign up to our newsletter to get more articles like this delivered straight to your inbox. Dlugacz wrote to the Olivia Records mailing list. She advertised a four-night cruise to the Bahamas and needed six hundred women to do it. It sold out. When she offered a second cruise, the same thing happened. “There was so much discrimination against women, and lesbians in particular, that we wanted women to feel free to come out and be themselves,” says Dlugacz. Instead, at the first of those 15th anniversary concerts, in Seattle, Dlugacz marveled at the energy of the 2,000-strong crowd of women. “I’m going: ‘How can I stop doing this?’” she recalls. After the show, a woman came up to her and suggested doing a concert on the bay. It was this conversation that sparked Dlugacz’s idea to transform the Olivia brand into a travel company.

Room should be made for the issue during the referendum that would accept the new constitution being reviewed. Lives and properties are endangered by the spark of the action of the Youth in James Town and the President, Prof. Atta-Mills is once again called upon to show clear-eyed and decisive leadership to spare the lives and properties of both Youth across the nation and the LGBT community. Percentages are calculated from the total usual resident population aged 16 years and over. Because this question is voluntary percentages do not total 100 percent, as “Not Answered” has been excluded from this table. The intensity and obsession of the issue across the nation is the referent religiosity by all Ghanaians irrespective of their religious beliefs, Christians, Muslims and Traditionalists. The Ghanaian society abhors Gay and Lesbian practices but cares for their lives. The imminent threat as reported in The Ghanaian Times edition of Wednesday, 14 March 2012, is the fact that the youth stated to the police "Their activities are depriving us of women. Anytime a man decides to go after a woman in the area these lesbians will pounce on him and beat him up". What an irony and who born dog?

She was 13 when she discovered for the first time about the club’s clientele and purpose. “It was Sunday lunchtime and my mother and I were washing up after lunch. She said: ‘I want to talk to you about something because you’re going to hear about this at school. You do know what the club is, don’t you?’ I said: ‘What do you mean?It’s a club,’ and she said: ‘It’s a lesbian club, Gina.’

The data showed few differences between the two nations with respect to sexual orientation. England and Wales had very similar proportions of people who identified as:Such joyful moments very nearly didn’t happen. In the late 80s, Dlugacz was on the cusp of shutting down Olivia Records, the California-based independent label she’d co-founded with a collective of nine other radical lesbians, which boldly celebrated lesbian relationships at a time when mothers risked losing custody of their children by coming out. As Cris Williamson, a founding member who still performs with Olivia, remembers, at the time “lesbians were losing their jobs, their children, their incomes”. It is presented by Sandi Toksvig, who recalls her own visits to the club, and has interviews with former members. It is sharp, snappy, sassy and sexy – oh, and of course, very sapphic, too. The Gateways Grind, we learn, was a particularly popular dance there where tightly meshed groin action became literally orgasmic. There was always speculation about the relationship between her mother and Smithy. On her death bed, her daughter finally asked her about it. “I said: ‘People always ask me, Mum, and I hate to ask you but were you and Smithy lovers?’ And she said: ‘Everybody always assumed that Smithy was madly in love with me and that I was playing her along. But no we weren’t, and the reason for that was that Smithy didn’t want it.’ Her husband reacted surprisingly well too, suggesting that they enrol in therapy to help both of them exit their long-standing relationship. I took this as my cue to make a commitment and said I would move to the suburbs to be with her and her three children, once her husband had moved out. We have not provided glossary entries for individual sexual orientation categories. This is because individual respondents may have differing perspectives on the exact meaning. Usual resident

If they selected “Other sexual orientation”, they were asked to write in the sexual orientation with which they identified. When I went to other people’s houses I would find them extraordinarily suffocating and conventional. There’d be this ghastly father who was a boring old fart and a mother who was terribly uptight,” she recalls. “I was glad to go home to the laughter and fun. There was a lot more conversation, and I had a lot more access to my parents than my friends did to theirs. I could say what I wanted as well.”After half a century, the Olivia brand sails on: forthcoming trips include France, the Galápagos Islands, and New Zealand. When Dlugacz co-founded Olivia, she was 20. Now she’s 71. How does she feel? “It has been my life’s work,” she says. “And I have never been bored by it.” A summary by Welsh Government of Census 2021 data about sexual orientation and gender identity in Wales. Olivia has steered through its fair share of choppy waters. In 2009, the company settled a lawsuit out of court, filed against it by a former CEO, Amy Errett, who disputed her ownership interest. Court documents showed Errett was keen to push Dlugacz out of her role. (“We were almost gone,” Dulgacz says of that time.) The question was voluntary and was only asked of people aged 16 years and over. People were asked “Which of the following best describes your sexual orientation?”. The different sexual orientations that people could choose from included: