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”. 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:

Room should be made for the issue during the referendum that would accept the new constitution being reviewed. 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? Olivia Travel has built up a loyal customer base, particularly among professional women aged 30 and older. Photograph: Courtesy of Olivia Travel 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. 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.’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. It is the duty of all Ghanaians to work relentlessly for peaceful and authentic co-existence beyond 2012 election so that there will be Jobs, Opportunities and Youth Empowerment beyond 2012. 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 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.”

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. 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.’ Since the gays and lesbians are known medically to be imbalanced in the composition of the brain chemicals, Psychotherapy centres should be established in strategic areas to help practitioners. An abbreviation used to refer to people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other minority sexual orientations (for example, asexual). Sexual orientation So I wouldn’t let her kiss me good-bye, or hello, or leave the office with me. We couldn’t go to office parties together. Couldn’t stand too close. Couldn’t tell any of my friends. When my parents called and asked who I was dating, I said, after a pause, nobody at all.

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Variables and classifications used in Census 2021 data about sexual orientation and gender identity. Known quality information affecting sexual orientation and gender identity data from Census 2021 in England and Wales. 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.