Perhaps Tiff Bakker was misled by the title of Sally Wainwright’s BBC series Riot Women (There is a fascinating TV series to be made about a menopausal rock band – Riot Women isn’t it, 22 October). Ms Bakker reaches back into the 20th century to make her point, and says that “lesbians have always been invisible to society”.
Lesbians were visible and audible in 1970s feminism. My late friend Sheila talked about the ideas behind Lesbian Nation by Jill Johnston, and tried to persuade me that “feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice”. In a career almost unimaginable without 70s feminism, Sheila became a rabbi.
