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: I’d come out when I was 17 and been disowned by my parents. I’d moved to London and been in and out relationships and casual flings. She was 40 and had been married for 10 years, with three children under the age of 10. The agency we worked for also represented her husband, an esteemed writer, so I knew I absolutely couldn’t go there.

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. Interactive map tool that visualises Census 2021 data on different topics down to a local authority area and neighbourhood level. The remaining 3.6 million people aged 16 years and over (7.5%) did not answer the question on sexual orientation. Finding a liner to host hundreds of lesbians was another challenge. “No one wanted to charter a ship to us,” she says. One agreed, only to pull out. In the end, Dlugacz found a Greek family cruise line. She recalls a heartwarming exchange with the captain when he – to reassure her – asked her where Sappho was from, the ancient poet having written of her love for women. “I hesitated,” says Dlugacz, “and he said, ‘The isle of Lesbos [from where the word “lesbian” is derived], and that is where I am from. So there will be no problems on this ship!’” In February 1990, the first Olivia cruise set sail. Room should be made for the issue during the referendum that would accept the new constitution being reviewed.

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Ted married an Italian actress, Gina Cerrato, in 1953 (they had a daughter, also named Gina, a year later) and the couple ran the club with Gina’s right-hand woman, Smithy, a former member of the US Air Force from California. They turned it into a women-only venue in 1967. After Ted’s death in 1979, Gina kept the club running but its last night was in 1985. She died in 2001. 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. 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.

Olivia Travel has built up a loyal customer base, particularly among professional women aged 30 and older. Photograph: Courtesy of Olivia Travel The percentage who did not provide an answer was also very similar (7.5% in England, 7.6% in Wales).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. 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.

If they selected “Other sexual orientation”, they were asked to write in the sexual orientation with which they identified. 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: 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”. To know that I could finally come clean to my worrisome friends felt liberating beyond belief. I didn’t care about sacrificing my youth to move to outer London with a swarm of forty-somethings. All I wanted was to be with her full-time, and for it to be out in the open that we were together.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.’ 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. Known quality information affecting sexual orientation and gender identity data from Census 2021 in England and Wales. 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.