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Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide - A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020 (Paperback)
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Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide - A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020 (Paperback)
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Peopled by a cast of gay icons such as Dusty Springfield, Billie
Jean King, Dirk Bogarde and Alan Turing, and featuring key moments
such as Stonewall, Gay Pride and Section 28, Sensible Footwear: A
Girl's Guide, is the first graphic history documenting lesbian life
from 1950 to the present. It is a stunning, personal, graphic
memoir and a milestone itself in LGBTQI+ history. In 1950, when
Kate was born, male homosexuality carried a custodial sentence. But
female homosexuality had never been an offence in the UK,
effectively rendering lesbians even more invisible than they
already were-often to themselves. Growing up in Yorkshire, the
young Kate had to find role models wherever she could, in real
life, books, film and TV. A fascinating history of how post-war
Britain transformed from a country hostile towards `queer' lives to
the LGBQTI+ universe of today, recording the political gains and
challenges against a backdrop of personal experience: realising her
own sexuality, coming out to her parents, embracing lesbian and gay
culture, losing friends to AIDS. Kate's ex-navy dad said to her:
`You shouldn't have told her, love... you should have just told
me.' But it turned out her mother might have known a bit more about
life, too. Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide has received many
accolades since publication, awarded best graphic nonfiction by the
Broken Frontier Awards 2019, longlisted for the Portico Prize in
2019 and shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2020.
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