When Laurel Kimbley-Stone attended the 1981 Lesbian Conference, she had been out for 16 years. Bisexual, working-class, and mother of a child whose father was Cree, she discovered that lesbian feminists weren't interested in her experience with women who attended the clubs and bars, or the "Pensioner’s Ball" crowd. Laurel helped lesbian mothers by volunteering for the Lesbian Information Line and organizing a local chapter of the Lesbian Mother's Defense Fund.