Dykes on the hockey field
1985
Mary had continued to play for a netball team since her school days although rarely met any gay women through this. She met and got to know other sports women, many of them gay but mainly hockey players, through a flatmate. These lesbians were fairly obviously dykey and went drinking and socialising in town after matches, and were very different to the political, academic set that she knew, who tended to socialise at each other?s houses over dinner parties.
Contributed by: Mary Dunne, 52