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Wouter van Noort
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If we are "out," then where is the "in"? In the closet? And if it is in a closet, well then, who put us there? Or rather, who built the closet around us?
— Mar 10, 2026 03:20AM
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Wouter van Noort
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Part of this project, my need to write about the logbook and myself in one breath, is because I so desperately want to find a way to link myself to this lesbian history. To write a community into existence between them and me. To create my own lesbian inheritance.
— 3 hours, 36 min ago
Wouter van Noort
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Identity is not just what you feel; it is also confirmed, reflected, and shaped by those with whom you surround yourself. At a time when my family couldn't see the person I was trying to become, these queer women allowed me to see myself through their eyes. My friends.
My chosen family.
— 18 hours, 57 min ago
My chosen family.
Wouter van Noort
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I worry for any queer or trans youth growing up in today's climate who does not have a caring and loving support network - some kind of family (whatever that looks like) around them.
— Mar 11, 2026 03:27AM
Wouter van Noort
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The simple fact is that most people in the UK,
lesbians included, support trans rights.
— Mar 10, 2026 11:46AM
lesbians included, support trans rights.
Wouter van Noort
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I want to talk about masculine and feminine qualities in a way that isn't defined by being a boy or a girl. We've tried that, and it's only gotten us this far. Make it easier for people to be who they want to be. Make it easier for us to live.
— Mar 10, 2026 08:34AM
Wouter van Noort
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Before I "fully" came out I felt like a huge imposter, not gay enough to be queer, not straight enough to be "normal".
— Mar 09, 2026 07:53AM
Wouter van Noort
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As one volunteer at the London Lesbian Line noted, "It was the idea that you could change someone's life in twenty minutes, it allowed you to make direct contact with one woman and turn her life around, just by saying to her, it's perfectly all right to be a lesbian, you are completely normal, you can be happy, there will be a future for you."
— Mar 08, 2026 04:10AM
Wouter van Noort
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The lesbian and women's lines of the seventies, eighties, and nineties all had broadly the same goals in common: to provide a space where women could ask questions, seek advice, and simply talk to another lesbian.
— Mar 07, 2026 05:17AM
Wouter van Noort
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Section 28 was repealed in England only in 2003.
I was fifteen and had never met an out gay person. I had lived through something I hadn't even been aware of, because how can you miss what you do not know is even there?
— Mar 06, 2026 01:41AM
I was fifteen and had never met an out gay person. I had lived through something I hadn't even been aware of, because how can you miss what you do not know is even there?
Wouter van Noort
is 16% done
Growing up, I had no idea I might be gay. No idea one day I'd end up sat in front of a logbook full of the recorded calls of lesbians, the evidence laid out in front of me of lesbians living their real everyday lives. Who would have guessed that one day I'd happily count myself among them?
— Mar 05, 2026 07:55AM
