A great oral history podcast all about how men found love and sex with each other in the years before Grindr and the internet.
Presented by Murry, each episode features an interview with a guest over the age of 40, with conversations talking about gay life from the 1950s to the 1980s. There’s great (and occasionally very rude) anecdotes, but it explores so consistently the reality of gay men’s lives in a different era to where we are now.
“One started meeting men by cruising the Cheshire lanes in the 1950s — still illegal — and was with the same partner for 51 years,” Murray told us. “Another has lived with HIV since 1984, was arrested in a police cottaging sting in 1982, and drove to London in a clinical fugue state during his full AIDS diagnosis in 1994. Another arrived in London in 1997 with £500, spent most of it at Trade over one weekend, and ended up sleeping rough in West End theatre doorways.” He’s on the hunt for new guests too. Get in touch.
