If you are interested in the history of the LGBTQ community (and who isn’t?) then Queerguru recommend you check out THE LOG BOOKS an award-winning queer podcast. Run by Brit journalist and ex social media editor Adam Z Smith who is one of the 3 co-founders.
It focuses on British queer history, and in the podcast’s first season it covered the years from 1974 to 1982 winning Gold in the Best New Podcast category at the British Podcast Awards 2020.
‘Now The Log Books is back for a second season with more voices and untold stories from Britain’s LGBTQ+ history than ever before, picking up where they left off in 1983 and moving through to 1991. It deals with the country gripped by growing HIV infections, calls to the Gay Switchboard reaching unprecedented volumes and intensity.
But so much more than a health crisis happened from 1983 to 1991. Britain’s LGBTQ+ communities felt more and more under attack from tabloids and social hostility, with Margaret Thatcher’s government capitalising on this by passing legislation that banned the “promotion of homosexuality“.
The planned episodes on the media, intolerance and violence will feature grass-roots stories about what this felt like at the time. Other stories in the season include migration to the UK of people fleeing more homophobic countries, state clampdowns on obscenity including a Customs raid on a bookshop, and how Switchboard volunteers used humour to get through these dark times.
https://www.thelogbooks.org/listenA third season is planned for 2021, covering 1992 to 2003.
