In this revealing letter from a “contact dyke”—a lesbian who offered to be a liaison, through Lesbian Connection magazine, to the broader lesbian community— a Berkeley-based lesbian complained about the Berkeley Women’s Center’s “strong anti-lesbian attitude.”
The self-declared “separatist dyke” noted with frustration that, given the Women’s Center hostility, local lesbians went to the Pacific Center for its diverse set of lesbian rap groups. She observed, with sharp irony, that it was a center founded by a man which opened a space for the community in its full range.
This letter speaks to the difficulty of divides within the greater LGBT+ community, as well as the core importance of Pacific Center as an East Bay space which offered refuge to many, not just gay men.
