'I didn't know that world existed': how lesbian women found a life in the armed forces
- Written by Shirleene Robinson, Associate Professor and Vice Chancellor's Innovation Fellow, Macquarie University
Cadets march in the 2014 Sydney Mardi Gras. Jake Badior/Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY-NC-ND
Jennifer, who signed up to the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) in 1979, told me that “until I joined the Army, I had no awareness of gay people. I had no awareness that I was gay, I didn’t know that world existed.”
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