And Then Suddenly! - older lesbians and homelessness
Doesn't matter what your background, it's happening more frequently to older women coping alone. : You're going along fairly fine, and then you trip over a mound of rotten luck, or some person does the nasty on you, or a catastrophic thing is inflicted upon your person and THUMP - down you go, the slide to the depths. Maybe you sink down slowly or maybe you fall head first, either way, the unthinkable happens: you're an older woman and you're homeless. The above photo is of me - In the late 1970s I was a young lesbian living in London performing a 'Bag Lady' in a play which toured around schools. I was with a Theatre In Education company called Half Moon. On one distressing occasion when I was loitering in a school corridor before making my 'surprise' entrance, the school caretaker spotted me and attempted to escort me off the premises! I had based my character on Gladys, a real homeless woman who lived near me in a bombed out house (because there