272: LGBT+ History Month Special with Lisa Power, co-founder of Stonewall | Part 1

Homo Sapiens

Christopher Sweeney

Arts, Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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What was it like being LGBT+ in Britain under Section 28? This week, in honour of LGBT+ History month, we are joined by a true trailblazer, the matriarch of LGBT+ activism, Lisa Power MBE. Lisa is a pillar of our queer history and was a force for change during this time. We have an incredibly insightful chat about her phenomenal career, from volunteering at Switchboard to co-founding The Pink Paper and Stonewall. We discuss some of your memories of Section 28 and Lisa tells us at which ICONIC actors house Stonewall was formed.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. Welcome to Homo sapiens. My name's Chris Sweeney. I would think after 255 episodes or however many is, you might know that by now.
0:13.7	But I'm not alone because it's LGBT history month, we've got a very special episode because I am
0:19.6	joined by the matriarch of LGBT-plus activism, Lisa Power MBE.
0:27.0	Hello Lisa, welcome to Homo sapien.
0:29.6	Thank you so much for joining us.
0:31.2	You're very welcome. You're also very well known. I was talking to a friend in
0:35.0	Mongolia earlier who said, oh I listened to them, they're great. Stop it. No.
0:41.1	Yeah, really, genuinely, he's in Ulan Batar.
0:44.6	What's his name? His name is Dan.
0:47.1	Dan, in Ulan Batar.
0:49.2	Hello, I've got your lovely friend Lisa here we're gonna have a right old laugh now
0:54.6	Listeners let me just tell you a little bit about Lisa because it's LGBT history month
0:59.7	Lisa is a pillar of our queer history.
1:02.8	She's a co-founder of Stonewall.
1:04.3	Stonewall was set up in 1989 as a direct response to the passing of section 28.
1:09.6	By the way, Lisa, we can get you a buzzer.
1:11.0	If I get anything wrong, you can hit it and then tell me
1:14.0	shut up Chris section 28 in the UK prohibited the promotion of
1:17.6	homosexuality by local authorities some of you have actually written in with your
1:22.0	memories of section 28 so we're going to be looking through all of them with Lisa.
1:26.0	We're going to talk to Lisa in a second, but first, are you all caught up on our latest episodes to celebrate LGBT history month?
1:32.0	We released a snippet last week, all about the pink pound with queer historian Justin
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