"Documents on working-class community, culture and identity are difficult to find and this problem is compounded by the stigmatization of lesbians which forces them to be hidden at the periphery of society. Upper class and/or artistic lesbians are likely to leave creative work, diaries, letters or memories for posterity, while ordinary lesbians usually do not. Even if they do their works it is unlikely to enter a public realm to be found by historians. To address this situation we and other lesbian and gay history projects have turned to oral history---it allows the narrators to speak in their own voices of their lives, loves and struggles."

--Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold

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