With warmth and humour, Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who both 
called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s, whilst also tracing 
her 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.

Through these revelations of the complexities, difficulties and revelries of 
everyday life, Lovatt investigates the role living-history plays in the way we 
live today. What do we owe to our lesbian forebears? What can we learn from 
them when facing racism, transphobia and ableism in the community today?

Steeped in pop culture references and feminist and queer theory, Thank You 
for Calling the Lesbian Line is a timely and vital exploration of how lesbian 
identity continue to remake and redefine itself in the 21st century, and 
where it might lead us in the future.