Podcasts Culture The Essay There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

Published: July 11, 2017, 9:45 p.m.

A heartfelt meditation on the (in)visibilty of gay women.

Writer and theatremaker Stella Duffy describes growing up lesbian in New Zealand in the 60s and 70s and considers what the 40 year expatriate 'marriage' of novelist, poet and playwright Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, author of The Alice B Toklas Cookbook, means to her.

Part of Gay Britannia, a season of programming marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexual acts that took place in private between two men over the age of 21.

Writer: Stella Duffy\nReader: Stella Duffy\nProducer: Simon Richardson.