{"product_id":"walker-tash-adam-zmith-the-log-books","title":"Walker, Tash \u0026 Adam Zmith - The Log Books","description":"An intimate exploration of intergenerational queer heritage,\ncharting four decades of LGBTQ+ life in Britain\nthrough the call logs of a charity helpline.\nIn a crawlspace at the offices of Switchboard, a queer helpline in operation\nsince 1974, lies dozens of log books kept by volunteers describing the phone\ncalls they had taken: a teenager whose parents had kicked them out of home\nfor dressing as the wrong gender; a lesbian terrified of having her baby taken\naway from her; a man arrested for chatting up another man in a public toilet;\na young person wanting to know how to come out.\nThese logs were traces of tens of thousands of queer lives, a bridge to a past\nhidden from people like Tash Walker and Adam Zmith in their youth, captured\nby people who lent an ear to those in need. Walker and Zmith came\nof age in the time of Section 28, a law which banned councils and schools\n'promoting the teaching of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended\nfamily relationship'. In recovering these logs, they encountered people grappling\nwith feelings, questions and problems both familiar and different, and\nset out to learn from – and sometimes speak to – those on both sides of the\ncalls.\nCharged with joy, gossip, sensuality, humour and sometimes fear, and with a\npotent relevancy to the world today, these stories are brought together in The\nLog Books. Walker and Zmith capture queer lives in stunning detail, embarking\non a journey of both collective history and self-discovery and propelling\nit into the very foreground of our national history.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber Non Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Hardback Book","offer_id":50585974636822,"sku":"RMX-57008","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/7f1aa0d78414d94dc4963fae3f48a436.jpg?v=1759933836","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/walker-tash-adam-zmith-the-log-books","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}