When author Elizabeth Lovatt began digging through the Finsbury library archive, she didn’t expect to uncover a world of anonymous lesbian helpline call logs. She tells Zoya Raza-Sheikh about the women’s real-life stories that were shared with the Lesbian Line
How a lesbian helpline became a sanctuary for queer British women in the 1990s … from the Independent Zoya Raza-Sheikh
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