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Hello, everyone. Now, today we've got some bonus content for you. We will be back with

our usual programming though from Monday. We've never done this on After Dark before,

have we? What a time to be alive. But we have gone into bonus land because you may have seen,

if you follow me on social media,

that my book, Queer Georgians, A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers and Homemakers, is out now.

I actually feel sick.

So as a special treat, we have a chapter exclusive for After Dark listeners.

And thank you so much to the history hit and After Dark team because they've been so supportive about this launch. But we just wanted to let you hear a little bit of queer Georgians.

Okay, before we actually hear the chapter, and I literally cannot wait, I'm actually buzzing with excitement. Please, can you just tell us a little bit about what this chapter's about?

And also, and this is something we've been chatting about for about two years,

but for the listeners, tell me why you wanted to write this book in particular. Okay, we'll start

with the chapter and then I'll come to the next bit of the question. So this is chapter 10 that you're

about to hear. So we're actually coming towards the end of the book here. And it tells the story

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