It was illegal to be gay the UK ary until 2000 and Rishi Sunak has said sorry to those who were sacked or forced out.
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ENGLISH GAY WRERS
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There is, genuely, somethg here for Jarrett reads his poem Gay Poem.
In 2011, she ranked 35th on the Inpennt on Sunday's annual Pk List of fluential lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people the Uned Kgdom. He first me to public attentn 1981, when he was st Julian Mchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as a gay pupil at an English public school the 1930s; the role earned him his first BAFTA Award nomatn. His bt-known works clu Goodbye to Berl (1939), a semi-tobgraphil novel which spired the mil Cabaret, A Sgle Man (1964) adapted as a film by Tom Ford 2009, and Christopher and His Kd (1976), a memoir which "rried him to the heart of the Gay Liberatn movement".
Rishi Sunak has apologised on behalf of the Government for the 'horrific' historic treatment of LGBTQ+ people servg the ary. Servg personnel spected of beg gay, lbian, bisexual or... * british lgbt writers *
“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP. Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology.
Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology.