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British Observation List


Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Interesting admission: Britain’s Royal Air Force kept records on suspected lesbians during the 20th century. Radclyffe Hall, the famous author of The Well of Loneliness, was one of the earlier targets; in 1920 she was nearly charged with “obscene libel and corruption of minors.” The record-keeping continued all the way through to the 1990s.

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