A Pivotal Era LGBT History? - Gay the 80s

Contents:

• GAY 80S BOOKS
• AS A GAY MAN, THE '80S CRIPPLED MY INTY
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

GAY 80S BOOKS

Pri Month is officially here and that n only mean one thg: time to load up your readg list wh stellar queer stori.Of urse, you should be mixg gay books to your to-be-read pile no matter what time of year, but this month, as you celebrate Pri, queer books n be the perfect way to explore the breadth and diversy of the LGBTQ muny.Fortunately for anybody lookg for a great gay read, the book world is filled wh a bevy of queer stori of all genr.Whether you're lookg for a medative poetry llectn about queer inty and mental health, a ep dive to the New York Cy's ballroom culture the '80s and '90s, a ic about a group suts who fd themselv plagued by supernatural creatur at mp, or a g-of-age story about a shaphifter who is navigatg life and datg, there is a queer book out there for you.Here are 13 very gay and very good books you should read this Pri Month.1. The say llectn is a ep dive to Chee's past as he documents his experec as a gay rights and HIV/AIDS activist, a rose garner, a wrer, and more. Gay 80s >.

(shelved 1 time as gay-80s).

AS A GAY MAN, THE '80S CRIPPLED MY INTY

The Crimal Law Amendment Act 1885 ma homosexualy illegal the UK. In 1967, the Sexual Offenc Bill was passed, crimilisg homosexual acts between two long as they were over 21, both nsentg, and nductg any sexual acts wh the privacy of their own hom.

So, the 1980s, wasn’t illegal to be gay, but was certaly not easy. The Gay Black Group (formed 1981 by a number of Black and Asian gay and lbian people who found that most LGBTQ+ groups had a lack of mory members, makg hard for them to fd empathy and people to talk to who would unrstand) approached the Greater London Council 1982 to requt fundg. Three years later, 1985, they received their fundg and set up the Black Lbian and Gay Centre, which was open to all lbians and gay men.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

As the knowledge behd grew and people began to realise that was a vis that uld fect people through blood and sex, 1983, gay men were asked not to donate blood. Sectn 28 banned lol thori om ‘promotg homosexualy’ or ‘pretend fay relatnships’, and prohibed uncils om fundg tnal materials and projects perceived to ‘promote homosexualy’. At the very end of the , 1989, the untry saw somethg they’d never seen a prime-time soap opera first ever gay kiss, Eastenrs!

In the same year, rponse to the Sectn 28 legislatn, actor and gay rights activist Sir Ian McKellen was speakg on BBC Rad 3 about the issu raised by the Act and publicly me out. It was named after the 1969 Stonewall rts New York Cy’s Greenwich Village, and om the outset looked to prevent such attacks as Sectn 28 on lbians, gay and bi people om ever occurrg aga. In 2003, Stonewall was granted charable stat and has sce gone on to help achieve the equalisatn of the age of nsent, lift the ban on LGB people servg the ary, secure legislatn which allowed same-sex upl to adopt, helped secure civil partnerships and then same-sex marriage and ensured that the recent Equaly Act protected lbian, gay and bi people terms of goods and servic.