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After a gay bookshop was raided by customs officers in 1984, the booksellers fought back. This is the story of censorship and community solidarity, and it is not the only one in this episode. Tash and Adam explore the actions of the British state to stop people from seeing things that were considered obscene in the 80s. We also feature a story from people whose magazines and posters were seized, and Adam even sings a song.
Transcript here.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Tash Walker and Adam Zmith, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline. With thanks to the Bishopsgate Institute and the BFI National Archive.
For more information, take a look at:
More about Operation Tiger
More about Yulia Tsvetkova’s case
Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest
Ezra Benisty
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
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From 1983 to 1991, calls to Switchboard about rape and domestic violence increased in number. So in this episode Tash and Adam hear some of those stories and ask volunteers from the time to share their experience of supporting survivors. This episode also features an account of how Switchboard evolved in order to improve how it handled calls about violence, and an update on how these matters are handled today by GALOP, the LGBT+ anti-violence charity.
Content warning: domestic violence, abusive relationships, rape and sexual consent, and suicide.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Tash Walker and Adam Zmith, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline. With thanks to the Bishopsgate Institute and the BFI National Archive.
For more information, take a look at:
Get help from GALOP
SurvivorsUK for help with male rape and sexual abuse
Book:
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
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It wasn’t easy being young in the Eighties! Tash and Adam read log book entries and hear stories about growing up, looking for help, and even a teenager who took the government to court. We also catch up with the changes happening around relationships and sex education in schools right now, via Kaley Foran from The Key.
Content warning: Suicide, sexual consent and under-age sex.
Transcript here.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Tash Walker and Adam Zmith, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline. With thanks to the Bishopsgate Institute and the BFI National Archive.
For more information take a look at:
Brook, a charity with help and advice about healthy relationships and sexual health
Sex Education Forum, partners working on relationships and sex education for young people
The Key, with advice for school leaders
Educate & Celebrate, helping to make education more inclusive
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 1988 the British government passed explicitly anti-gay legislation. Through log book entries from Switchboard, Tash and Adam return to the scene: lawmakers spaffing about what constitutes a family, gay teachers zipping up and living in fear, and bewildered young people with seemingly nowhere to turn to for advice. This episode is filled with untold stories about Section 28 of the Local Government Act and the censorship of LGBTQ+ lives — and concludes with the joyous launch of a new kids’ book by Olly Pike called Kenny Lives With Erica and Martina.
Content warning: attacks on LGBTQ+ people, including language that some people may find offensive.
Transcript here.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Tash Walker and Adam Zmith, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline. With thanks to the Bishopsgate Institute and the BFI National Archive.
TV clip from Gay Rights – The London Programme, produced by LWT, April 10th, 1987.
TV clip from Back In The Closet, produced by Thames TV, January 14th, 1988.
For more information about Section 28, take a look at:
Section 28 detailed history from the LGBT+ History Forum
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
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Some light and laughter in our fourth episode of this season! Tash and Adam hear memories of joy and strength from 1983 to 1991, through the log books at Switchboard and stories from people who remember those years. We also feature the Lesbian Strength Marches, Switchboard’s one-millionth call and an interview with Thigh High, the band who centre their music on queer joy.
Transcript here.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Tash Walker and Adam Zmith, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline. With thanks to the Bishopsgate Institute and the BFI National Archive.
Songs by Thigh High featured in this episode, Go Slow and Nannas on the Rampage, used with kind permission of the band. Listen to Thigh High on Spotify.
Music by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Artwork by Natalie Doto
https://www.thelogbooks.org
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Tash and Adam continue exploring the HIV/AIDS crisis through the calls made to Switchboard from 1983 to 1991, in this second of three episodes on the subject. This episode contains memories of Switchboard volunteer Mark Ashton, more from George, and further log book entries from the anonymous volunteer looking for others with an HIV diagnosis. We also have untold stories about the UK government’s official public health campaign from 1987 and words from Dr Tristan Barber on the status of HIV prevention and treatment today.
Content warning: Illness, death, and ill-treatment and discrimination of people living with HIV and AIDS.
Transcript here.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Tash Walker and Adam Zmith, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline. With thanks to the Bishopsgate Institute and the BFI National Archive.
TV clip from Daytime: AIDS produced by Thames TV, 02/07/1988. TV ad clip from the UK government campaign AIDS: Don’t Die of Ignorance campaign produced in 1987.
For more information about the themes in this episode, take a look at:
From organisations:
All about HIV from the Terrence Higgins Trust
All about PrEP from Prepster
National Aids Trust, the UK’s HIV rights charity
Positively UK, advocates for and supporters of people living with HIV
Positive East, health and wellbeing for people living with HIV
The National AIDS Map, which grew out of Switchboard!
Tonic Living, which seeks to build LGBT+ affirming retirement communities
TV:
BBC Horizon Killer in the Village from 1983
Podcasts:
From Probably True with Scott Flashheart:
Doctor part 1
Doctor part 2
Plague
Books:
Policing Desire by Simon Watney
The End of Innocence by Simon Garfield
AIDS: Don’t Die of Prejudice by Norman Fowler
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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This is the story of the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic as it has never been told before: through the voices and notes of the people who took phone calls made to an LGBTQ+ helpline. From 1983 to 1991, Switchboard volunteers supported people living with HIV, their loved ones, and people scared of it. In the first of three special episodes that start Season Two of The Log Books, Tash and Adam hear from survivors, a nurse and a doctor, and the people who were among the first to tackle what became a crisis.
Content warning: Illness, death, and ill-treatment and discrimination of people living with HIV and AIDS.
Transcript here.
The Log Books — stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced by Shivani Dave, Tash Walker and Adam Zmith, in partnership with Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline. With thanks to the Bishopsgate Institute and the BFI National Archive.
For more information about the themes in this episode, take a look at:
From organisations:
All about HIV from the Terrence Higgins Trust
All about PrEP from Prepster
National Aids Trust, the UK’s HIV rights charity
Positively UK, advocates for and supporters of people living with HIV
Positive East, health and wellbeing for people living with HIV
NAM AIDS Map, which grew out of Switchboard!
Tonic Living, which seeks to build LGBT+ affirming retirement communities
TV:
BBC Horizon Killer in the Village from 1983
Podcasts:
From Probably True with Scott Flashheart:
Doctor part 1
Doctor part 2
Plague
Books:
Policing Desire by Simon Watney
The End of Innocence by Simon Garfield
AIDS: Don’t Die of Prejudice by Norman Fowler
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 award-winning podcast The Log Books returns for Season Two!
Our brand-new set of episodes cover 1983 to 1991, continuing where Season One left off in 1982. As always, our re-telling of Britain’s history is led by the handwritten notes made by volunteers at Switchboard - the LGBT+ helpline.
In this short episode, hosts Tash and Adam return to the Switchboard log books by visiting two locations that are integral to LGBTQ+ history in these years. We hope you’re as excited as we are about the re-opening of The Log Books, and for all the stories, memories and reflections ahead.
Transcript here.
The Log Books: stories from Britain’s LGBT+ history and conversations about being queer today. Produced in partnership with Switchboard, the LGBT+ helpline.
Produced by Shivani Dave, Tash Walker and Adam Zmith
Nightclub music at the start of this episode by Pond5
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.
