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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Gay Switchboard (via Twitter)" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:21:05 +0000 Subject: Gay Switchboard (@GaySwitchIrland) replied to one of your Tweets! To: Fae <[email protected]> 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 Fae -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
