Happy National Lesbian Day!🧡 This clip is from a 1965 episode of ITV’s current affairs programme This Week, in which a lesbian woman from the North Midlands opens up about the challenges she faces in finding a partner. At the time, male homosexuality was still illegal in Britain, but lesbianism was not. The presenter Bryan Magee says this makes it a “much easier subject for us to deal with”. The secretary is incredibly open about her experience as a lesbian woman in the 1960s, stating that she just wants “to love and be loved by another woman”. She goes on to explain that the difficulty in finding a partner means that she has to “keep making friends with people”, adding that “if they are lesbian, there’s hope for me, but even then there isn’t hope unless they happen to take to me”. The presenter asks her if she can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a lesbian or not, to which the secretary responds “not at all”. “It’s an absolute myth, because I have been looking out hard ...