"People were still associating lesbians and gays with prostitution in the late 70s and the early 80s. Those on the political left considered us decadent and feminists feared us – so we went to nightclubs with gays. In the the mid-80s, the lesbian and gay movements split. Instead we liaised more with heterosexual feminists."
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Heidi is the third of four children. Her father was the head of Brienz railway station and her mother a closeted painter and housewife. Heidi trained at air traffic control at Zürich airport, and worked as a chimney sweep, stewardess, and in a number of other jobs in the travel business. She comes ‘out’ early and breaks into the national scene as a strongly militant lesbian. She makes a number of high-profile public appearances, such as on the Telearena show on Swiss national television in 1978. She soon becomes an activist as a member of HAB (the Bern homosexual working group) and as a co-founder of LIB (Lesbian Initiative Bern). She works on the first Swiss film cycle on homosexuality (screened at the Eiger Cinema in Bern in 1976). Today Heidi lives in Biel and has her own practice as a marriage counsellor and therapist. She takes a profound interest in astology and alternative medicine.
(do pressbook de Katzenball)
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