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We’ve taken The Log Books out of the archive for LGBT History Month! We recorded this special episode in front of an audience at an event in London on February 5th 2020. You’ll hear fresh voices and familiar ones, including Tash and Adam. As ever, we are led by the handwritten notes made by volunteers in Switchboard’s log books from 1974 to 1982.
The event was held at the Finsbury Library and co-organised by Islington’s Pride, a Heritage Fund project that aims to preserve, archive and celebrate Islington’s LGBT+ heritage.
Transcript here.
Here are the voices you’ll hear:
Julian Hows, LGBT+ rights activist and former Switchboard volunteer
Marlin Khondoker, project archivist with Islington's Pride
Seán McGovern, project manager with Islington's Pride
Femi Otitoju, former Switchboard volunteer
Adam Smith, co-producer of The Log Books
Tash Walker, co-producer of The Log Books and co-chair of Switchboard
...and members of our live audience
Special thanks to everyone who helped with the event and this bonus podcast episode: Luis Amália, Scott Flashheart, Helen MacKenzie, Egle Rutkauskaite and Eliot Smith.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Adam Smith and Tash Walker, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline.
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
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Hello listeners, thank you for joining us through the laughter and tears of queer life in Britain from 1974 to 1982. In this final episode of our first season, Adam and Tash reflect on the stories we’ve all heard. We love hearing your reactions to the stories we’re telling too. Please keep them coming!
Transcript here.
The handwritten notes in Switchboard’s log books continue through the difficult years of the 80s. So we are planning to make a second season, covering 1983 to the early 90s. If you can help with funding, ideas or would like to share your story from those years, please email us on [email protected].
— Shivani, Tash and Adam
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Adam Smith and Tash Walker, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline.
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelogbooks.
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The early log books open up a world before HIV, showing what it was like for LGBTQ+ people needing healthcare between discos in the 70s. A doctor and a patient are among those who tell Tash and Adam what it was like. Some of the same infections are on the rise again today, as explained by Dr Tristan Barber, a consultant in HIV and sexual health.
Content warning: stories about transitioning and being intersex.
Transcript here.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Adam Smith and Tash Walker, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline.
For more information about LGBTQ+ health, take a look at:
Unexpected fluids
SXT: Sexual health information
GMFA — the gay men’s health project
Beating about the bush
Lesbian Sex 101
Mens R Us
CliniQ
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelogbooks.
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People often make a phone call because they are lonely and isolated, as the log books at Switchboard show. Exploring this issue, Tash and Adam hear from Tony Whitehead and others who took such calls in the dead of night. Chryssy Hunter explains about the issue of loneliness among our LGBTQ+ elders today.
Content warning: stories about racism, including slurs, and suicide.
Transcript here.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Adam Smith and Tash Walker, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline.
For more information about loneliness among LGBTQ+ elders, take a look at:
Opening Doors London
Tackling loneliness and isolation can help older LGBT people’s health
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelogbooks.
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In the 70s, there was no such thing as an “LGBTQ+ community”. The log books reveal how identities, labels and definitions have always been in flux among those with minority sexual and gender identities. Former Switchboard volunteer Diana James is among the contributors who explains all this to Tash and Adam. Transgender and non-binary activists Owl and Fox Fisher guide us through their thoughts on how identities form in today’s internet-focused world.
Content warning: historic terms.
Transcript here.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Adam Smith and Tash Walker, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline.
For more information about identities and labels, take a look at:
Why We Need More Queer Identity Labels, Not Fewer
Stonewall’s glossary of terms
A Brief History of the LGBTQ Initialism
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelogbooks.
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The 70s was a hotbed of activism, from lesbians fighting for child custody to gay men demanding equal laws for the age of sexual consent. Tracking the movement through the log books, Tash and Adam hear from activists on the frontline, including Lisa Power and Ted Brown. Meanwhile, young activists in a resurgent Gay Liberation Front discuss the actions they plan for 2020...
Content warning: stories about racism and stories with sexual content.
Transcript here.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Adam Smith and Tash Walker, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline.
For more information about LGBTQ+ rights, take a look at:
Blowing the Lid by Stuart Feather
No Bath But Plenty of Bubbles by Lisa Power
A short history of LGBT rights from the British Library
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelogbooks.
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The log books are full of stories about raids on parties and arrests made in public toilets, as the police sought to stop men having sex with men in the 70s and 80s. Tash and Adam hear from the people who suffered through unfair laws and police persecution, a lawyer who defended them, and a retired police officer with regrets. Contributors include Terry Stewart, who is still seeking a pardon for his conviction today.
Content warning: difficult stories of persecution by the police.
Transcript here.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Adam Smith and Tash Walker, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline.
For more information about pardons and disregards for old crimes, take a look at:
Alan Turing law: Gay, unjustly convicted - and now denied a pardon
Don’t fall for the myth that it’s 50 years since we decriminalised homosexuality
Information on previous convictions, from Galop
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
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A quick glimpse into Switchboard’s log books from the late 70s might make you think that every caller wanted to know about sex. Tash and Adam hear from former volunteers such as Femi Otitoju on advising callers about how to do it, where to cruise, and importing sex toys. Contemporary poems from Michelle Mangal, Annie Hayter and Richard Scott put sex lives into modern words.
Content warning: sexual content.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Adam Smith and Tash Walker, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline.
Transcript here.
Poems:
Mooncup by Michelle Mangal
Public Toilets in Regent's Park by Richard Scott, reproduced with the kind permission of Faber and Faber
God-birth by Annie Hayter
For more information about the items in this episode, take a look at:
Mens R Us info for men having sex with men
Unexpected Fluids podcast
Beating about the bush sexual health guide for lesbians
Lesbian Sex 101
Back Pocket Guide Trans Men
Juno Roche on her book Queer Sex
Risk Aware Consensual Kink
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelogbooks.
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Pubs and clubs have brought LGBTQ+ people together for many years—to chat, plot, dance, and hook-up. Tash and Adam listen to stories from nights out in the 70s/80s, from the log books and new interviews. They hear how Elaine and Lyn’s lives changed forever in a pub more than three decades ago, and from the queer babes behind Aphrodyki, one of London’s hottest nights today.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Adam Smith and Tash Walker, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline.
Transcript here.
For more information about queer nightlife, take a look at:
Queer today, gone tomorrow: the fight to save LGBT nightlife
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelogbooks.
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Runaways and rough sleepers, communes and flatshares, crashpads and catastrophes... Stories about home feature heavily in Switchboard’s log books. Tash and Adam listen to LGBT+ people who searched for somewhere to live in the 1970s, and hear about the persistent problem of homelessness in 2019.
Content warning: stories of suicide and racism, and historic terms.
Transcript here.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Adam Smith and Tash Walker, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline.
For more information about homelessness, take a look at:
The Outside Project
akt
LGBT Youth Homelessness report by akt for the Proud Trust
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelogbooks.
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What if we told you that we could glimpse into LGBT+ life from decades ago?
The Log Books are a unique set of documents tracking Britain’s queer history through the voices of people who have called for help.
Since 1974 volunteers at Switchboard, the LGBT+ helpline, have written callers’ stories down in log books. Hosts Tash Walker and Adam Smith are re-opening these pages today, to hear worries and joys from Britain’s queer history. Episodes of The Log Books include untold stories from dozens of voices, and conversations about being queer today. The first full episode arrives on November 4th, 2019.
The Log Books is produced by Shivani Dave, Adam Smith and Tash Walker, in partnership with Switchboard, the LGBT+ helpline.
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelogbooks.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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There are so many 'firsts' in the first year of recovery. your first sober Christmas, birthday, summer etc. How do you get through them? What are the highs and lows to prepare for?
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