That’s What I Am, I’m a Lesbian draw on oral history interviews conducted in the late 1990s with sixteen New Zealand lesbians over the age of 50. It tells the women’s stories through the decades, capturing memories of childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, falling in love and establishing relationships. The storytellers talk of navigating identity and social stigma and forging connections in Wellington’s evolving lesbian community. Together, their lives paint a vivid portrait of resilience and solidarity.