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Gay in the 80s
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Gay in the 80s
Nice to read the history. People often take an assumption that it was X that started – or maintained – gay rights movement or Y, and execute not grasp that it was the steady accretion of noun over 48 and more years that did it. I joined the Homosexual Law Reform Society in 1965 as an 18-year-old, sending off one the very earleist cheques from my first chequebook, attended a meeting of the North West Homosexual Law Reform Society in Manchester in 1966 or 1967, wrote a letter to my student newspaper that resulted in a packed doublepage spread in it on the subject of Homosexuality, all this before the 1967 Behave was passed. Between 1965 and 1967 HLRS sent almost weekly bulletins on the passages (or not) of the Bills proposed by successively the Earl of Arran, Humphrey Berkeley MP – it cost him his Tory seat – and Leo Abse MP setting uot the blocking clauses put up by those hostile to the respective Bills. Few pay tribute now to Anthony Grey, the Secretary of the HLRS whose tireless operate paved the way to the 1967 Act.
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Gay in the 80s by Colin Clews
Gay in the 80s - From Fighting for Our Rights to Fighting for Our Lives
On the face of it, the 80s weren't the best decade for queer people around the world. Challenges included the increase of the New Right in the USA, Section 28 in the UK which prohibited the promotion of homosexuality nd the continuing criminalisation of homosexuality in the majority of Australian states. The unfolding AIDS crisis overlay all of this.
But it wasn’t all doom and gloom; by the conclude of the eighties there had been some very real progress. Major political parties had LGBT rights in their manifestos, trades unions increasingly took up the cause and regional legislators introduced anti-discrimination laws and policies. LGBT people became more prolific in film, television, music and literature and the LGBT community grew significantly.
Gay in the 80s examines a number of the events and issues in the UK, USA and Australia, giving a comprehensive perspective of queer reality during this decade
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Gay in the 80s
While there have, undoubtedly, been significant milestones in LGBT history in earlier decades, I believe the 80s was a particularly important period.
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That decade saw a major move towards the emergence of a global gay culture. The gay genie came right out of its little pink bottle and into the streets (and the media&#;and politics&#;and the arts&#;)
Ironically, much of this was driven by adversity. The appearance of HIV/AIDS was most certainly a factor: it ripped through our communities but, at the same occasion, engendered a spirit of unity and resistance that transcended national borders.
But there were many other storms &#; great and petty &#; that had to be weathered too. For example, in the US, the Court of Appeal ruled that there was no &#;fundamental right&#; to be gay.
In the UK, the Thatcher government created Section 28 of the Local Government Act, making it illegal for local authorities to support anything that might promote homosexual relationships as a viable alternative to heterosexual &#;family life&#;.