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Wouter van Noort is 78% done with Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

Part of this project, my need to write about the logbook and myself in one breath, is because I so desperately want to find a way to link myself to this lesbian history. To write a community into existence between them and me. To create my own lesbian inheritance.

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Wouter van Noort is 93% done with Japan in honderd kleine stukjes

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Wouter van Noort is 71% done with Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

Identity is not just what you feel; it is also confirmed, reflected, and shaped by those with whom you surround yourself. At a time when my family couldn't see the person I was trying to become, these queer women allowed me to see myself through their eyes. My friends.
My chosen family.

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Wouter van Noort is 87% done with Japan in honderd kleine stukjes

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Wouter van Noort is 64% done with Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

I worry for any queer or trans youth growing up in today's climate who does not have a caring and loving support network - some kind of family (whatever that looks like) around them.

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Wouter van Noort is 81% done with Japan in honderd kleine stukjes

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Wouter van Noort is 59% done with Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

The simple fact is that most people in the UK,
lesbians included, support trans rights.

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Wouter van Noort is 54% done with Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

I want to talk about masculine and feminine qualities in a way that isn't defined by being a boy or a girl. We've tried that, and it's only gotten us this far. Make it easier for people to be who they want to be. Make it easier for us to live.

— Mar 10, 2026 08:34AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 48% done with Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

If we are "out," then where is the "in"? In the closet? And if it is in a closet, well then, who put us there? Or rather, who built the closet around us?

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Wouter van Noort is 74% done with Japan in honderd kleine stukjes

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Wouter van Noort is 68% done with Japan in honderd kleine stukjes

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Wouter van Noort is 41% done with Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

Before I "fully" came out I felt like a huge imposter, not gay enough to be queer, not straight enough to be "normal".

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Wouter van Noort is 58% done with Japan in honderd kleine stukjes

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Wouter van Noort is 52% done with Japan in honderd kleine stukjes

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Wouter van Noort is 34% done with Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

As one volunteer at the London Lesbian Line noted, "It was the idea that you could change someone's life in twenty minutes, it allowed you to make direct contact with one woman and turn her life around, just by saying to her, it's perfectly all right to be a lesbian, you are completely normal, you can be happy, there will be a future for you."

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Wouter van Noort is 46% done with Japan in honderd kleine stukjes

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Wouter van Noort is 28% done with Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

The lesbian and women's lines of the seventies, eighties, and nineties all had broadly the same goals in common: to provide a space where women could ask questions, seek advice, and simply talk to another lesbian.

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Wouter van Noort is 40% done with Japan in honderd kleine stukjes

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Wouter van Noort is 22% done with Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

Section 28 was repealed in England only in 2003.
I was fifteen and had never met an out gay person. I had lived through something I hadn't even been aware of, because how can you miss what you do not know is even there?

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Wouter van Noort is 29% done with Japan in honderd kleine stukjes

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Wouter van Noort is 16% done with Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

Growing up, I had no idea I might be gay. No idea one day I'd end up sat in front of a logbook full of the recorded calls of lesbians, the evidence laid out in front of me of lesbians living their real everyday lives. Who would have guessed that one day I'd happily count myself among them?

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Wouter van Noort is 21% done with Japan in honderd kleine stukjes

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Wouter van Noort is 11% done with Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

She just wants to talk to a lesbian. Maybe it would help her figure all this out, even though she hates talking on the phone.

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Wouter van Noort is 12% done with Japan in honderd kleine stukjes

Hoe begint een liefde voor Japan?
Bij mij niet eens met judo, maar met een gummetje.

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Wouter van Noort is 92% done with You’re the One That I Want

The wrong people hold you down.
But the right people lift you up.
And that's how I feel the next day.

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Wouter van Noort is 87% done with You’re the One That I Want

I don't want this evening to end. I want to stay here talking with him, because somehow, I'm enough for him, and it's nice, not feeling the pressure to impress, or be someone different, or be constantly worrying about whether I'm saying yes to life enough.

— Mar 03, 2026 03:41PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 82% done with You’re the One That I Want

Maybe Freddie is doughnuts. That's what I am. Maybe, like Jasper says, I just need to embrace that. There are worse things to be, so actually, I think I should embrace this doughnut, since the doughnut is me, and I am the doughnut.

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Wouter van Noort is 77% done with You’re the One That I Want

I love that he thinks that about me; that I'm OK as I am.
I think Ruby was saying a similar thing the other day. I don't know if I believe either of them, but it makes me feel better about myself.

— Mar 02, 2026 04:25PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 71% done with You’re the One That I Want

There are no stakes with Jasper. We both hated each other, so things can never get worse than that. And there's zero chance we'll ever end up together, since he's got model good looks and is about to become a huge movie star, and I can't even get a bit part in the school show.

— Mar 02, 2026 08:11AM 1 comment

Wouter van Noort is 63% done with You’re the One That I Want

It's great to know that Zach's antics are so common they've become a verb. Zached. To be led on and royally screwed over by a boy you really like.

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