Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line
Writer Elizabeth Lovatt talks to Lesley Wood – Chief Executive of New Writing South and Curator of the Coast is Queer Festival, about her new book, Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line, a 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.
The book, which is part social history, part memoir, reimagines the women who both called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s, whilst also tracing Elizabeth’s 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.
Elizabeth Lovatt is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction, originally from Leicester and now living in London. She has been published by Popshot Magazine, Spread the Word, 404 Ink and Cipher Press, among others. In 2020, she was accepted onto Penguin Books' #WriteNow mentorship scheme for underrepresented writers to develop the manuscript of what is now her first book: Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line.
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