the helm steering us all towards family COULL sibility victorian values. There is no protection or defence of women • USI all out attack on the few rights we have won.
Rulings such as this will never defend any young woman from being forced into sex by boyfriend, it will never result in closer communication between mothers and daughters Just as the Age of Consent laws used to women. ruling designed lc ensure that those of us who 'step out our sins'. It reinforces yet again the notion that what young women chose to do with our bodies can be classified as a crime. , While young men well, that's a different story.
LCGR AGM IHE ANNUAL General Meeting of the Labour place over the weekend 4/5 May. It was attended by 70 people and decided to change its name to the Labour Campaign PETER PURTON argues below that this proLCLGR was faced with the task of gearing itself up 1o consolidate these gains and make furIner progres ic anning a firm commitmes: from the the unions 1o equal rights policies Vital to this has to be making LCLGR an organisation which recognises the specific oppression and demands of lesbians -campaign which takes up sexism well as heterosexismn which campaigns around the righis of lesbian mothers, for examand which strives end the invisibility of les bians within the womens Gillick may have won in the Appeal Court, but she cannot reverse our expertalions Today do expect right choose Not the Mirror's warped conception, but the right to choose a form of contraception suitable to us if we decide to have sex with men.
if that fails, ther many will no longer resigr themselves to the respon sibility and restrictions of bringing up a child in in tolerable circumstances At some point the Law Lords, with all their vast understanding women's lives and sexuality, will make a decision on whether to uphold reverse the Appeal Court clear - we will no. forced onto the backstreets, we will not be forced back into the home as either dutiful daughters or dutiful wives. and gay movements. There , a vigorous and very political debate around the demands of Labour • Lesbians for such a shift in position and for positive action to give it organisational form.
The final yote was overwhelmingly in favour, and LCLGR now stands ready to face the immense challenge of creating a ge numely therefore strengthened campaigning organisation. The immediate target now willll? at Labour Party conference LCLGR will be organising a forceful campaign to win this from all sections of movement around model resolution • Copies of the latest issue of LĆLGR's magazine Lesbian and Gay Socialist is available for 50p plus 13p p&p from 39 Chippenham Road LonThe model resolution is available from the same address.
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