Early CAMP pioneers Kym Skinner and Kierrynn Davis. Photos: Richard Hedger.I had known I was a lesbian from an early age. I attended an all-girls Catholic parish school where I was warned of the horrors that awaited anyone that embraced “particular friendships.” I can still remember the nuns prowling the school grounds at lunchtime looking for girls sitting too close together.Fear of exposure as well as isolation were common experiences.
And until the arrival of organisations like CAMP (Campaign Against Moral Persecution) in 1970, there was no community in which gay men and lesbians could find acceptance and support.Robyn Kennedy.
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