Lesbians gather for work, play, and politics.

If only Queen Victoria could see us now, she wouldn’t be so despondent.

Cambridge Terrace Post Office (across the road from the Queen Victoria Statue) and at the post office closer to Wellington Railway station is where plenty of lesbians worked in the P.O. or as toll operators who were uniquely placed to contact each other, on the job.

To promote Lesbian visibility, on International Women's Day in 1977, Queen Victoria's statue was adorned with a sash that said "Lesbians Are Everywhere." The story that Queen Victoria thought lesbianism didn't even exist, therefore omitting lesbianism from being outlawed, is probably false. True, their law, being drafted to criminalise all same-sex activity, didn’t include lesbians. But we were most likely excluded in case stating the word lesbian alerted women to the fact that lesbians exist, and the possibility of them being Lesbian. This still applies today when using the word. Hence, the need for lesbian visibility and groups like LAVA: Lesbian Action for Visibility in Aotearoa, which began in December 1988 in Brooklyn.

Ranfurly Tce was where Tighe was living next door to Tess in the mid-70s (not far from many lesbians living in Wright St.) They (very) often had women's parties. It was usually easiest To get to the toilet out the back by climbing out through a window -or enjoy squeezing through the lesbians in the narrow kitchen on the way to the back door. The concrete slope up to the outdoor toilet was a gentle slope for lying on to recover if you'd drunk too much.

A Working Class Lesbian group formed in 1978, later meeting at Mt Cook Cafe in Wallace Street, Newtown, to organise politically, leading up to the Lesbian Conference in Otautahi.