Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

A Hidden History of Queer Women

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A brilliantly original exploration of queer history based on call logs from a 90s lesbian phone helpline

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'Deliciously informative and rigorously researched . . . I loved it.' Julia Bell, author of DIRTY WORK

With warmth and humour, Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who both called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s, whilst also tracing her own journey from accidentally coming out to disastrous dates to finding her chosen family. With callers and agents alike dealing with first crushes and break-ups, sex and marriage, loneliness and illness (or simply the need to know the name of a gay bar on a night out), this is a celebration of the ordinary lives of queer women. Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is timely and vital exploration of how lesbian identity continues to remake and redefine itself in the 21st century, and where it might lead us in the future.

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Authors:
Elizabeth Lovatt
Year Published:
2025
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9780349704616
Number of Pages:
416
Publication Date:
06/02/2025
Publisher:
Dialogue
Language:
English
SKU:
9780349704616
Elizabeth Lovatt is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction currently living in London. In 2019, she was writer-in-residence for Islington Pride and the ruckus! archive. In 2020, she was part of Penguin Books' #WriteNow mentorship scheme. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from Birkbeck and her dissertation was awarded the Lynne Segal BiGS Prize in Gender and Sexuality.
Compelling, funny, intelligent . . . Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is a remarkable piece of work . . . A gift for those of us who have lived in our queer skins for many decades, and for young lesbians who are looking for a primer in lesbian history, an understanding of what it means to look for identity and place in our community. -- Kerry Hudson * Observer * A triumph . . . The book I wish I'd read as a young queer person. Intricately woven together, it is overflowing with empathy, warmth and tenderness. Elizabeth Lovatt is a wonder and she's recorded something deeply compelling and incandescent. You will laugh. You will cry. This is utterly essential queer reading. -- Lucy Rose, author of THE LAMB Deliciously informative and rigorously researched, this book imagines the often invisible lives and denied passions of callers to the Lesbian Line, as well as tracing the author's own coming out story. I loved it. -- Julia Bell, author of DIRTY WORK

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