Established at the beginning of 1964 under the title, Minorities Research Group (M.R.G.), it followed an article, "A quick look at lesbians," by a journalist Dilys Rowe, which appeared in "Twentieth Century" (winter 1962-3, pp. 67-72).

A lesbian was quoted as saying that "the thing that hurts a homosexual woman most is that the heterosexual does not recognise the spiritual quality of her love." Another lesbian replied in a subsequent issue of the magazine to the effect that what was resented was not that the spirituality of her life was doubted by the heterosexual, but its authenticity. The heterosexual does not realise how hard the homosexual woman finds it to imagine what it is to be in love with a man.