largely invisible lives of lesbians in society at the time and their relationships with their mother and father. It proposed that lesbians reported growing up in families where they had a weak father and a dominant mother and that they had failed to emotionally bond with their fathers during their formative years. Following on from this, a research article that was compiled with the help of the Minorities Research Group was "On the Genesis of Female Homosexuality by E. Bene" for the British Journal of Psychiatry, September 1965, pp. 815–21. This included further research into the parental relationship by sampling 37 lesbians from the group and 80 married women. The results also pointed towards lesbians having a poor relationship with their fathers. See also LGBT rights in the United Kingdom List of LGBT rights organisations References Further reading LGBT political advocacy groups in the United Kingdom LGBT history in the United Kingdom 1963 establishments in the United Kingdom Defunct LGBT organisations in the United Kingdom Organizations established in 1963 Organizations disestablished in 1972