Switchboard met Bridget at the Matador late 70s
1979
Fortunately Bridget somehow got
hold of the number of the Gay Switchboard in the late seventies. They said ?Come
along and have a drink?. This was an important moment for her as volunteers
arranged to meet her at the monthly lesbian disco at the Matador, in the Bull
Ring near St Martins, which she describes as ?A ghastly sixties concrete
building?. She thought there was about an hour on a Tuesday when Switchboard met
up with new lesbians. As the Matador became known as a lesbian venue, it got a
reputation for incidents where people got beaten up outside.
Contributed by: Bridget Malin, 62