Siblings Mickey Ferriols Children Andre Paras, Kobe Paras | Role Actress Name Jackie Forster Nephews Brent Marcus Alemania | |
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Full Name Jacqueline Moir MacKenzie Died 10 October 1998(1998-10-10) (aged 71)London, England Spouse Benjie Paras (m. 1994–2003) Similar People Benjie Paras, Andre Paras, Mickey Ferriols, Michelle Bayle | ||
Occupation News reporter, actress | ||
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Jackie Forster (née Jacqueline Moir Mackenzie; 6 November 1926 – 10 October 1998) was an English news reporter and lesbian rights activist. She married her novelist husband, Peter Forster, in 1958 while she worked as a TV presenter and news reporter, but divorced him in 1962 when she realised her true sexual identity. She is noted for being an actress, a TV personality, a feminist and a lesbian campaigner.
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- Jackie forster tired of waiting for andre kobe
- Jackie forster s daughter cured of leukemia
- Early history
- Activism
- Television and film appearances
- Trivia
- References
Jackie forster s daughter cured of leukemia
Early history
Jackie's father was a colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps and she spent her early years in India. When she was six, she was sent to boarding school in Britain at Wycombe Abbey and then to St Leonard's School in Fife. During the war, she played lacrosse and hockey for Scotland.
Jackie became an actress and joined the Wilson Barrett repertory company in Edinburgh before moving to London in 1950. She attended London's Arts Theatre Club was in various West End productions and films before developing a successful career as a TV presenter and news reporter under the name of Jacqueline MacKenzie.
From 1957 she was on a lecture tour in North America for part of the year and was in Savannah, Georgia, when she had her first lesbian affair. Despite this she married the author Peter Forster in 1958, but the marriage was over within two years as she accepted her true sexual identity. They divorced in 1962 and she went to live in Canada.
Quoting Jackie on her early lesbian experiences, she said 'I didn't see myself as being a lesbian, or her, because I didn't look as I imagined they did, and nor did she. We weren't short back and sides and natty gent's suiting. I got the image from The Well of Loneliness, like we all did. There were drug stores around the States, with these pulp books, lurid stories about lesbians who smoked cigars and had orgies with young girls. I thought, where are these women? We never met anyone we knew were lesbians. There were no other books that I found about lesbians, no films that we ever saw: nothing at all'.
In 1964, Jackie returned to Britain to work for Border Television; and then eventually moved in with a girlfriend and her children in London.
Activism
In the 1960s she joined the Minorities Research Group and wrote for its journal, Arena Three. She would also regularly promote the magazine in the Gateways club.
Later on, she 'came out' publicly in 1969 when she joined the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) and went to serve on its Executive Committee.
In 1970, she was a founder member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in London. She was on the first Gay Pride march in the UK in August 1971.
In 1972 she was one of the founders of Sappho, which was a social group and one of the UK's longest-running lesbian publications (Sappho magazine was published from 1972 to 1981, although the group continued to meet regularly for many more years). The Sappho group members used to meet in the Chepstow pub in Notting Hill and had public speakers such as Maureen Duffy and Anna Raeburn.
After Sappho, Jackie became a member of Greater London Council's Women's Committee.
From 1992 till her death in 1998 she was an active member of the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre management Committee. In 1997 a BBC film crew came to the archive to film Jackie for a programme about her life which was to be part of 'The Day That Changed My Life' series. Her work has made a huge impact on shaping the archive.