Anyone interested in taking up creating better articles for the
history of Gay Switchboard (and Gay Switchboard Ireland below)?
From my memory, it was a complex set of organizations
across the UK,
in the 1980s/90s more general gay groups setting up their own help
systems. Then London Switchboard got really big, with serious funding,
and this became a much more coordinated movement.
Different organizations still cover different areas, for example
Nottingham -
http://www.nottslgs.org.uk - and have their own
interesting and complex histories that would be useful as Wikipedia
articles. There are sources for some of this evolution of gay groups,
with well known writers like Lisa Power putting some of this down in
their semi-autobiographical books.
I have looked at this topic before (last editing London Lesbian and
Gay Switchboard on the English Wikipedia in 2011), however due to some
'unpleasantness' when I have had a personal connection with an
organization, I suggest someone with no past connection take a look.
Thanks
Fae
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From: "Gay Switchboard (via Twitter)" <notify(a)twitter.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:21:05 +0000
Subject: Gay Switchboard (@GaySwitchIrland) replied to one of your Tweets!
To: Fae <faewik(a)gmail.com>
Fae @Faewik
@PolariMagazine @GaySwitchIrland @Wikipedia No Wikipedia article for
it, yet there is for London - someone fix it!
04:09 PM - 30 Jul 14
Gay Switchboard @GaySwitchIrland
@Faewik @PolariMagazine @Wikipedia our core work is supporting the
community.Perhaps someone at Wikipedia would like to volunteer to do
it?!
04:21 PM - 30 Jul 14
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