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Hello and welcome to the first ever episode of 'Good Vibrations'. Thank you so much for joining me on this exciting expedition through the swinging sixties.

On today's episode we are exploring the history of gay liberation, tracking the journey from the Wolfenden Report in 1957 to the Sexual Offences Act ten years later. We will learn all about the Homosexual Law Reform Society and the Gay Liberation Front from archival material based in the Bishopsgate Institute. The real voices of those who were there will guide us through the past and let us ask - have things really changed?

I hope you enjoy the episode!

My deepest thanks to Stuart Feather, Martin Kaufman and Dan Glass.

Gay Liberation Front Manifesto

The Bishopsgate Institute

Reading list for this episode:

LGBTQ+ History

The Queer Sixties - Patricia Juliana Smith

Coming Out - Jeffrey Weeks

Sex, Politics and Society - Jeffrey Weeks

The Permissive Society and its enemies - Marcus Collins

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies - Vito Russo

Blowing the Lid - Stuart Feather

Queer Intentions - Amelia Abraham

Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain - Rebecca Jennings

General History

The History of Modern Britain - Andrew Marr

Black and British - David Olusoga

White Heat - Dominic Sandbrook

The Sixties - Arthur Marwick

1968: The Year that Rocked the World - Mark Kurlansky

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation - David Edgerton

Waterloo Sunrise: London From the Sixties to Thatcher - John Davis

The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class - Selina Todd

Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society - Frank Mort

Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985 - Rob Waters

Youth Culture

Mod - Richard Weight

All Dressed Up - Jonathon Green

Memoir/Biography

The Sixties - Jenny Diski

This Boy - Alan Johnson

Wilson - Ben Pimlott

Kink: An Autobiography - Dave Davies

Films

Victim (1961)

Music in this episode:

Slow Burn by Kevin MacLeod

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Night on the Docks - Sax by Kevin MacLeod

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